To correct improper intonation, you need to remember to start high and end low.

All of you must have known that the bidding would start high.

That means, you're almost always better starting too high and then lowering.

He had no idea that the price would start so high.

It must start high in those mountains back of us.

He had thin, fine obedient hair, straight and starting high.

The blow that killed Starrett started high and came down low into his back.

How about unemployment insurance that starts high but falls over time?

She started high and saw that she'd judged right.

These are the Yankees, so the expectations might as well start high.