I am sharing this video to karaoke singers because I didn't know how to explain it. You've done a fantastic job with this. I was born pitch perfect and I didn't know how to explain it. Thank you very much ❤️
Excellent teaching !! Thanks from AUC cairo Egypt my students are very familiar with quarter tones, but they overachieve often and we have trouble fixing it
Thank you so much. I usually go sharp or then overcompensate by going flat. Your video has helped me to work out more with scales on my piano and attune my ear better.
Besides Jakob being correct that you SHOULD correct your ear over time (although some never get it), just think of it as sharp being a little too high, and flat being a little too low. On the note, this is. Often folks with vocal problems go flat when trying to go up when their voice won't cooperate. It sounds very off to you when you hear it...you just know it.
Excellent video about this much understood subject - For me it's difficult to keep intonation focus throughout whole song and I start to wander into 'flat/sharp. I only reallised this from recording to backing.. live karaoke everyone say's 'it's great' but I think not.!
Thank you!! I sing flat. I didn't think I did until I recorded myself not too long ago. What did I do to fix it? I quit singing... I'm going to employ the exercises you shared so I can sing again. Thanks!!
Hi. Dear how do I identify the best key to comfortably sing in? I mean I want to focus on some sort of notes that will be cool for my voice. Or is it incorrect to ask so? Thanks
Thank you Freya, I'm 71, sang for fun for about 6 years about 30 years ago. since then not even a note! I have been in weekly voice lessons with someone who is really great and who has really worked on redeveloping my voice. I'm still singing flat but it is gradually getting better. I can't wait to play with your suggestions. So far though, I can't quite distinguish between being tighter and compression without tightness. In other words, when I try to slide the note up to pitch I can feel tightness. any thoughts?
Freya's totally right. I always record and playback, but one time, that wasn't enough. I finally broke out my small midi piano and mapped out the melody on the keys, then sung while playing keyboard. Even though it wasn't as good as an actual piano vibrations), I could finally identify what I was doing wrong, and a great plus was that seeing the melody visually on the piano greatly simplified the "movement" across the octave that I had to sing.
I find with me I can actually do a lot more with my voice if I wanted to. But Im a bit of a lazy singer at times and can sometimes sing flat because of it. I don't like when sings are too fancy with there voices because it can (at times) be less emotive.
I have a tendency to sing flat, and as I'm singing, I can hear it and it feels really wrong. I just don't know how to fix it while actually singing. I usually end up sliding up from the flat tone once I realize I'm flat, which doesn't sound great 😅
Here's a tip that might help you. It's visual, so it makes the technique easy to picture and feel, as if in 3-D: Imagine that the note is falling from above and DROPPING onto the correct pitch. Virtual gravity is helping you to accurately land that note. Hope that helps. :)
So I noticed today after re-watching my video from church that I was flat more often than I’ve ever been... definitely always looking for ways to better as I sing live quite often… And didn’t realize it was an issue maybe being away from music during the pandemic caused this to come to the forefront
Is there some kind of technique to modulate your mouth or voice to adjust flatness or sharpness? I am a musician but new at singing. While practicing with the notes on a digital piano if I adjusted the shape of my inner mouth it would adjust the pitch. But, I don’t know how proper that is for healthy singing. When I say I’m new to singing, I mean 0 knowledge.
I can hear notes perfectly and can tell you want the note is, I just can't sing it well. My husband told me that I sound fine it is me who thinks I sound bad. I don't know. As a female I can NOT sing high notes and have to practice using male voice lessons from online.
I have a huge tendency to sing sharp. I have a har time relaxing my body also but lately I've just been taking my time and doing relaxing things to keep my body from tending up. aDo you have any other tips/exercises to keep from going sharp?
Freya, whenver it comes to any of the higher parts of a song - i am just a little flat. Even when i change the song to a lower key thats totally omfortable ... and yet when it comes to the higher part of the song - i tend to be a little flat. Any tips for me? Would appreciate it loads.
Hello, I have a question. I actually feel like my voice is too high most of the time, and people have said you have a really sharp voice. But I don't feel like I'm trying too hard to sing sharp. I could sing low too and it sounds sharp. I'm trying to learn or see if there is any examples of how I can make my voice "softer" not too sharp...but not too soft... It usually sounds sharper when I sing in the mornings. Thank you for the vid I'll different keep practicing with my piano ...😊
I love you videos, do you give lessons or something i’d buy couple sessions, i really need your advice been trying to sing for like 6 years, at first i couldn’t even first the right note but my singing still doesn’t sound melodic, i’m debating i’m that’s because i have bad voice but every ressources out there seems to point out that anyone can learn to sing, not if that means if you really hit the note then it’ll sound good, whatever teach me please
Freya, I joined a competition and when I was singing I was so nervous. Can't hear the correct pitch. When I was practicing I did good. But I think because of nervousness or tensions I messed up. That was th first time it happened to me.
I've a tendency to sing flat... I am Indian so I sing on Tanpura. I realize while hitting a pitch that I'm singing it flat and at that time I try to fix it... But I'm not succeeding in that. Please tell me what to do... I'm so disappointed at myself.
My Nightmare Is singing flat and i studied a lot and doing exercise but.. Tryng different tecnich ..working on the body ,the breath but...( Years...) Still singing flat i Hope your advice can help me..Is bad because i don t understand when It happened..
I can learn different pitches/tunes, but what if I'm a girl but sometimes I hear my voice like 'why does my voice sounds child/kiddy?' , and 'why am I hearing boyish vocal om mine?' , but I do have good pitch before too but it's very rare to come out. Why do you think you? Is it because of what I ate or what I drink? I mean what's the reason behind those struggles I mention above? Can you give us advice? What about those who don't have beautiful voice? Should we just shift into being a rapper than good at vocaling?
Thank you Freya! Your tips are REALLY helpful! I even didn’t know about this thigs-I was confused what sharp/flat means as a non-English speaker and now your video and I was like “wow!” I finally know that! Even didn’t know there are different systems of music in the world, it does make more sense to me now!:) Yeah and singing along with instruments is GREAT, I see (hear:)) that I can go reeeally wrong with notes (I dunno if I’m flat/sharp sometimes, never thought about it and now I’ll definitely WILL) and when I practise with piano and feel that resonance, wow, best thing to train the pitches. :)
Hi Freya! I’ve been told I’m pitchy but I struggle with hearing it. I record myself often and I sing often, but I think it’s my breathing. Could that effect my pitch?
Good advice,, But I will go to the route of the problem or the elephant in the room which no one will mention,, People think out of the box please.. Change the pitch of A4 to 437Hz... there you go ,, problem solved... :-) Most people have a problem with flat singing when they are singing in the upper middle part of their voice.. Jokes aside.... modern 440Hz is to high for A4.. The voices natural relaxed pitch for A4 is 432Hz.. (-31 cents),, But that might sound a little to calm for modern contemporary music.. Go up to 437Hz (-11.84 cents).. All voices sound better,, strain less,, and you get rid of the flat singing which is a phenomenen I do blaim partly on the A4=440Hz pitch and 12-TET.. The passaggios lies at a really bad place when A4 is 439Hz-443Hz for most people/voices.. For most voices there is a transition from 437Hz to 440Hz (11.8 cents) which makes singing in your upper range a drag.. THis is particulary a problem for heavy voices related to the passaggios, making 438Hz (8 cents) a physical limit for those singers when they are at the second passaggio.. Former Europea pitch before 440Hz was 435Hz (-19.8 cents). From ~1860 to ~ 1940s (most of Europe).. 435Hz was chosen in collaboration between composers, singers and physicians in 1859.. I have never seen any vocal considarations for the implementation of A4= 440Hz pitch . 440Hz was more or less "imported" from the US during the second world war (import of 440Hz instruments from the US and a british/german suggestion of 440Hz in a meeting in ~1940. A4=435Hz is a really great pitch for choirs,, you get less of the tense sound when a lot of singers have to "pull" chest and sound strained.. And the singers heady notes sound to thin in 440Hz-443Hz tuning... Opera at modern 442-443Hz sounds way to sharp and heady for my liking... I acutally think that opera would have a broader audience due to a more pleasing sound if we lower the standard pitch to 435Hz... Also in Italy in the late 1940s to ~1970s you would have the orchesters tune down to 437/438Hz (as low as they could go with there 440Hz fixed instruments) when performing pieces by e.g Verdi..
How did I end up here at 3:39 am? I have been binging on her videos for 2hours now. Great content.
Awesome!! Way more than two hours for me all the time. We have a passion why not then?
Im indian......and I'll learn indian classical music after this lockdown
Ear training is top on my goals for 2017.
Mo Poppins
how’d it go
I am sharing this video to karaoke singers because I didn't know how to explain it. You've done a fantastic job with this. I was born pitch perfect and I didn't know how to explain it. Thank you very much ❤️
I sing flat and this year I learnt that compressing my voice is a quick fix. Great video though, lots of good tips! Thanks Freya!!
Omg that works, how about sharp singing
How do U compress ur voice ?
@@tcchallenges761 I think it's like resisting some air that comes out.
Compression means vocal cord adduction else it will be breathy voice
Very very helpful ... I sing sharp a lot ... this really gave me insight
I'm so glad it's Freya Friday! I actually get excited.
Excellent teaching !! Thanks from AUC cairo Egypt my students are very familiar with quarter tones, but they overachieve often and we have trouble fixing it
Thank you so much. I usually go sharp or then overcompensate by going flat. Your video has helped me to work out more with scales on my piano and attune my ear better.
I am always confuse about sharp and flat because it become difficult for me know that I am in tune or out of tune.
Amit Gaikwad dont worry, you will develop your ear over time
Besides Jakob being correct that you SHOULD correct your ear over time (although some never get it), just think of it as sharp being a little too high, and flat being a little too low. On the note, this is. Often folks with vocal problems go flat when trying to go up when their voice won't cooperate. It sounds very off to you when you hear it...you just know it.
@@shanesanders4730 I thought I couldn't get it at first but now I'm getting better at hearing correctly, although not good yet but better(((:
@@setareblackcat3632 congrats on the improvement! It takes time to just feel it. Also, if you play the sound on the piano, you can compare the two.
@@shanesanders4730 tnx (:
That’s so true , singing in a studio is a different ball game
Alllllll together . Kindly do some
More videos on that
Excellent video about this much understood subject - For me it's difficult to keep intonation focus throughout whole song and I start to wander into 'flat/sharp. I only reallised this from recording to backing.. live karaoke everyone say's 'it's great' but I think not.!
Thank you!! I sing flat. I didn't think I did until I recorded myself not too long ago. What did I do to fix it? I quit singing... I'm going to employ the exercises you shared so I can sing again. Thanks!!
This video helped me. 🙂Like usually ur vids do! Btw, ur hair here looks so pretty💜
I Tend To Sing A Little Sharp. I Have To Make An Effort To Keep My Airway Relaxed.. I Tense Up Some And It Pushes Me A Little Sharp.
absolutely you face expressions real feel like "Celine Dion"
Hi. Dear how do I identify the best key to comfortably sing in? I mean I want to focus on some sort of notes that will be cool for my voice. Or is it incorrect to ask so? Thanks
Thank you Freya, I'm 71, sang for fun for about 6 years about 30 years ago. since then not even a note! I have been in weekly voice lessons with someone who is really great and who has really worked on redeveloping my voice. I'm still singing flat but it is gradually getting better. I can't wait to play with your suggestions. So far though, I can't quite distinguish between being tighter and compression without tightness. In other words, when I try to slide the note up to pitch I can feel tightness. any thoughts?
Freya's totally right. I always record and playback, but one time, that wasn't enough. I finally broke out my small midi piano and mapped out the melody on the keys, then sung while playing keyboard. Even though it wasn't as good as an actual piano vibrations), I could finally identify what I was doing wrong, and a great plus was that seeing the melody visually on the piano greatly simplified the "movement" across the octave that I had to sing.
I find with me I can actually do a lot more with my voice if I wanted to. But Im a bit of a lazy singer at times and can sometimes sing flat because of it. I don't like when sings are too fancy with there voices because it can (at times) be less emotive.
I have a tendency to sing flat, and as I'm singing, I can hear it and it feels really wrong. I just don't know how to fix it while actually singing. I usually end up sliding up from the flat tone once I realize I'm flat, which doesn't sound great 😅
Here's a tip that might help you. It's visual, so it makes the technique easy to picture and feel, as if in 3-D: Imagine that the note is falling from above and DROPPING onto the correct pitch. Virtual gravity is helping you to accurately land that note.
Hope that helps. :)
Mo Poppins thank you, I'll try that out!
Aww george with that kitty is adorable :3
Caveguy22 I know right 😍😍😍
Basically, we can say it’s all about tense, right? I understand it this way-if you push yourself too much, you might be sharp etc. Good to know!;)
Thank you for the tips! I'll definitely be putting them to work!
Beautiful and well -explained.
Its really my greatest dream to learn to sing properly.im a big fan of you Madam freya.how i wish i could be one of your students
very clear and helpful
You explain this topic very well, thanks.
dude when I heard that G note i immediately started hearing Welcome to the Black Parade in my head
So I noticed today after re-watching my video from church that I was flat more often than I’ve ever been... definitely always looking for ways to better as I sing live quite often… And didn’t realize it was an issue maybe being away from music during the pandemic caused this to come to the forefront
Thank you for all your tips Freya!
Is there some kind of technique to modulate your mouth or voice to adjust flatness or sharpness? I am a musician but new at singing. While practicing with the notes on a digital piano if I adjusted the shape of my inner mouth it would adjust the pitch. But, I don’t know how proper that is for healthy singing. When I say I’m new to singing, I mean 0 knowledge.
Great! Thank you!
I can hear notes perfectly and can tell you want the note is, I just can't sing it well. My husband told me that I sound fine it is me who thinks I sound bad. I don't know. As a female I can NOT sing high notes and have to practice using male voice lessons from online.
What if your talking voice is flat and you sing flat because of it. How do you fix this? Should I train my voice to a peak in a higher tone as well?
Hi my names also Freya and thank you this helped me a lot
I have a huge tendency to sing sharp. I have a har time relaxing my body also but lately I've just been taking my time and doing relaxing things to keep my body from tending up. aDo you have any other tips/exercises to keep from going sharp?
Freya, whenver it comes to any of the higher parts of a song - i am just a little flat. Even when i change the song to a lower key thats totally omfortable ... and yet when it comes to the higher part of the song - i tend to be a little flat. Any tips for me?
Would appreciate it loads.
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So do i just need to have more confidence in myself to get the pitch i need
I guess i have both. On different occasions.
Thank you
I have a tendency to sing sharp and I am working on my breathing listening and nerves. I hope it will be resolved as it is occupying my mind
Superb maam Very informative
Is there a way for you to private message meso I can ask a question? I am needing help but embarrassed to ask
Hello, I have a question. I actually feel like my voice is too high most of the time, and people have said you have a really sharp voice. But I don't feel like I'm trying too hard to sing sharp. I could sing low too and it sounds sharp. I'm trying to learn or see if there is any examples of how I can make my voice "softer" not too sharp...but not too soft... It usually sounds sharper when I sing in the mornings.
Thank you for the vid I'll different keep practicing with my piano ...😊
I love you videos, do you give lessons or something i’d buy couple sessions, i really need your advice been trying to sing for like 6 years, at first i couldn’t even first the right note but my singing still doesn’t sound melodic, i’m debating i’m that’s because i have bad voice but every ressources out there seems to point out that anyone can learn to sing, not if that means if you really hit the note then it’ll sound good, whatever teach me please
Freya, I joined a competition and when I was singing I was so nervous. Can't hear the correct pitch. When I was practicing I did good. But I think because of nervousness or tensions I messed up. That was th first time it happened to me.
I tend to sing sharp especially on higher notes.
Perfect 🙏🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤❤
Bist du deutsch? Danke für die Tips!
Are you German? Thanks for your tips!
Ich glaube nicht, dass sie deutsch ist
I've a tendency to sing flat... I am Indian so I sing on Tanpura. I realize while hitting a pitch that I'm singing it flat and at that time I try to fix it... But I'm not succeeding in that. Please tell me what to do... I'm so disappointed at myself.
A lot of this stuff has to do with playing Along!!!
You are beautiful. I just come here to see you.
My Nightmare Is singing flat and i studied a lot and doing exercise but..
Tryng different tecnich ..working on the body ,the breath but...( Years...)
Still singing flat i Hope your advice can help me..Is bad because i don t understand when It happened..
I can learn different pitches/tunes, but what if I'm a girl but sometimes I hear my voice like 'why does my voice sounds child/kiddy?' , and 'why am I hearing boyish vocal om mine?' , but I do have good pitch before too but it's very rare to come out. Why do you think you? Is it because of what I ate or what I drink? I mean what's the reason behind those struggles I mention above? Can you give us advice? What about those who don't have beautiful voice? Should we just shift into being a rapper than good at vocaling?
Assuming your instrument is in tune
Thank you Freya! Your tips are REALLY helpful! I even didn’t know about this thigs-I was confused what sharp/flat means as a non-English speaker and now your video and I was like “wow!” I finally know that! Even didn’t know there are different systems of music in the world, it does make more sense to me now!:) Yeah and singing along with instruments is GREAT, I see (hear:)) that I can go reeeally wrong with notes (I dunno if I’m flat/sharp sometimes, never thought about it and now I’ll definitely WILL) and when I practise with piano and feel that resonance, wow, best thing to train the pitches. :)
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I have a big problem about that.i cant recognize what is sharp and flat.hehe
Lucky you! :-D
Any exercise to practise my voice to stop Flat and sharp?
Becuase i don't think i can do it
Hi Freya! I’ve been told I’m pitchy but I struggle with hearing it. I record myself often and I sing often, but I think it’s my breathing. Could that effect my pitch?
Breathing is literally the base of everything so yes it can effect your pitch
Play the piano help make your pitch good
I sing flat and I've watched most video on youtube and I still sing flat
I like your videos
I sing very flat. I just do not know how to fix it.
Am I the only one that just realise that I sing flat and sharp🤣
Good advice,, But I will go to the route of the problem or the elephant in the room which no one will mention,,
People think out of the box please..
Change the pitch of A4 to 437Hz... there you go ,, problem solved... :-)
Most people have a problem with flat singing when they are singing in the upper middle part of their voice..
Jokes aside.... modern 440Hz is to high for A4.. The voices natural relaxed pitch for A4 is 432Hz.. (-31 cents),, But that might sound a little to calm for modern contemporary music.. Go up to 437Hz (-11.84 cents).. All voices sound better,, strain less,, and you get rid of the flat singing which is a phenomenen I do blaim partly on the A4=440Hz pitch and 12-TET..
The passaggios lies at a really bad place when A4 is 439Hz-443Hz for most people/voices..
For most voices there is a transition from 437Hz to 440Hz (11.8 cents) which makes singing in your upper range a drag.. THis is particulary a problem for heavy voices related to the passaggios, making 438Hz (8 cents) a physical limit for those singers when they are at the second passaggio..
Former Europea pitch before 440Hz was 435Hz (-19.8 cents). From ~1860 to ~ 1940s (most of Europe).. 435Hz was chosen in collaboration between composers, singers and physicians in 1859.. I have never seen any vocal considarations for the implementation of A4= 440Hz pitch .
440Hz was more or less "imported" from the US during the second world war (import of 440Hz instruments from the US and a british/german suggestion of 440Hz in a meeting in ~1940.
A4=435Hz is a really great pitch for choirs,, you get less of the tense sound when a lot of singers have to "pull" chest and sound strained.. And the singers heady notes sound to thin in 440Hz-443Hz tuning... Opera at modern 442-443Hz sounds way to sharp and heady for my liking... I acutally think that opera would have a broader audience due to a more pleasing sound if we lower the standard pitch to 435Hz...
Also in Italy in the late 1940s to ~1970s you would have the orchesters tune down to 437/438Hz (as low as they could go with there 440Hz fixed instruments) when performing pieces by e.g Verdi..
How do you change the hz of a pitch?
@@michaelanthony1621 A pitch is defined in terms of frequency, thus you can redefine the frequency (Hz) to redefine the pitch.
voice teachers who TALK instead of demonstrating are especially annoying...