You took me back to high school just now. Choir practice the last class of the day. We would be having so much fun we would stay late until someone would remember “oh crap we have football practice or baseball” lol it was ok because we were always working towards a competition. Man those were the days.
I love to write and have completed 2 songs, now I need my voice to sound great to sing them 😞 practice my vocals while I drive and at home. Hope I can get results 🙏 very soon. I follow you and love all your videos.
At one point when I’m trying asking AA sound I suddenly sound like the Count From Sesame Street. Then after laughing a bit I could tail it helped a bit.
I come to TH-cam looking for help. I can match pitch with scale exercises singing all the vowel pronunciations; ah, a (long), ooo, o (long), eee (long e), e (short), i, etc, etc. I do this all the time practicing and I do quite well singing each note on pitch. When I play a some songs with a band, I do not sing the correct note in the chord. I don't know if it is a memory thing or a muscle memory thing. Do you have any suggestions to sing the correct note in chords of a song?
my question is that do you need to have good voice if you want to learn singing? like some people sound great even when they literally speak. I have terible voice and just recent for past few months getting the urge to learn singing.. hopefully i can sing better one day.
Good lessons, but my question is: what if the person THINKS they can sing on pitch, attacks the note confidently and follows through with the sound.... but cannot hear that they are missing the pitch a lot of the time?
Hi Craig, Thanks for the question. This is where a good voice coach comes into play. Every voice is different. There are 3 areas of concentration that singers have total control over. Breath: How much is used on the exhale Vocal Cords: the closing of the cords (adduction), creating sub glottal pressure from the lungs. There has to be balance between the amount of air used and the level of adduction (cord closure). If the muscles of the vocal cords are not accustomed to resisting the amount of breath needed to get to the pitch intended, failure in the cord closure can occur, affecting the pitch. Likewise it too little or too much breath is applied, it can affect the pitch. Vowels: the AA vowel by its very nature drives tone to chest voice and is a good vowel for bringing the vocal cords together. It can sound quite ugly but that's not because the singer is using excessive force. Saying this vowel in short staccato phrases will/should slowly start to correct the pitch. It is recommended to sing to a piano as the tuning is universal, and the habits formed by repetition will easy to apply to song later. The ugly "AA" exercise is a great way to "just touch the notes". Thus the singer doesn't have to hold or sustain the pitch, making it easier to create a habit of finding the notes. When doing the ugly AA exercise, be sure to not say the notes too low or too high. Keep it comfortable, finding the pitch and creating a habit. The exercise doesn't have to be too aggressive to be useful. . .its a patience process. If you're not sure that the pitch is correct, record yourself doing the exercise so you can listen to it. I hope this makes sense. Again, as singers, each voice is so individual that sometimes a quick lesson with a vocal coach can put you on the path a little quicker. All the best, Darcy D
@@SingeoOfficial Thanks. All good information. Now all I have to do is convince this person that they need to try a voice coach...! (They think they don't need it...!!)
How do I know which letters to drop in words when I sing? Sometimes I think singing is like speaking, but it's so different. My words aren't smooth when I sing, and I know I am doing something wrong.
Hi, I'm a choral singer and I was taught to make the vowels as long as possible and to really clip the consonants clearly. Your 'T's, 'D's,' 'P's for example at the ends of words should be exaggerated so they can be heard. It feels as though you're overdoing it when you get it right. If you listen to Dame Vera Lynn singing "There'll be Blue Birds Over the White Cliffs of Dover" she gives a fine example of what I mean. Once you hear her long vowels and clear consonants you can't unhear them! 😊 Hope this helps. 👍🙏
Excellent excersise Lisa, that will be a really useful tool. I have something interesting about tone-deafness that for thirty odd years I've wanted to share with a singer who might be interested! All that time ago my girlfriend (now wife) and I were dancing together in a bar in London. She was humming loudly to the song but so badly out of tune it was embarrassing and painful to my ears 😂. So I kissed her and she carried on humming. To my absolute astonishment she was singing perfectly in tune in her head. So I came to the conclusion that there *is* such a thing as tone-deafness but it must be caused by some sort of misalignment of the bones in the head because the singer is hearing the right notes inside their head. The reason I haven't felt able to share this with anyone musical is because we're two gay women of course. My music friends are not the sort of intimate friends I could share something like that with being of a certain age and all. It's something that I really feel needs to be looked into by musicians and scientists/medics alike. There are so many people out there being ridiculed and traumatised by their 'bad singing' who could be being helped. Imagine hearing a perfectly good sound that you're making only to be told to be quiet because it's awful. Just so sad 😔 Be so interested to know if you or anyone out there in the ether has heard of this phenomenon or if my 'discovery' is a one off. (I've always wondered if those ear pieces some singers use could have some useful bearing on the subject) Many thanks for a great lesson.
Hey!!! I DO know that people can struggle to match pitch and believe that they are indeed singing correctly. In many cases, if the person can to some degree interpret changes in pitch or tone, they can train themselves to improve their ear/muscle coordination and match pitch. There is a fascinating article on this topic here : www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-neuroscience-of-tone/. Thank you so much for weighing in on this!!
@@SingeoOfficial oh wow so people do study this kind of thing...how absolutely fascinating! Thank you so much for this link Lisa. This study though is brain based and that is indeed where I had presumed tone deafness to originate. Having read it over a couple of times, though, they don't seem to have studied how the resonances of the facial bones might be interfering with the production of sound by the singer. My wife can hear music made by others and be aware if it is discordant. She is also hypersensitive to notes in the higher register to the point that she cannot listen to a soprano voice without it being an uncomfortable experience. There is a point in the higher register when it gets beyond uncomfortable and she just ceases to hear it as though her brain (or is it the mind? ) shuts off the sound. [ Incidentally her brain does that at the opticians... she finds all the tests tedious, by the time it gets to the field of vision test one of her eyes just stops seeing the little light jumping around. Her very perceptive optician found that if he gave her the children's test which has a Teddy bear jumping around and did it earlier in the process she remained engaged and completed the test... She was about 54 at the time!! ] So back to the point, whilst, having recited that anecdote you see that I'm conscious of the significance of the brain and mind in tonedeafness, I do also wonder if there is a problem with how sounds are resonated in the bones of the head. Side note: she was a month preterm baby born in the sixties and I've often wondered if that might have resulted in the cranial bones not quite aligning fully as they should. Such a fascinating subject and thank you for engaging with me on it. I wish I was fit enough to embark on my own study but I've been laid low by chronic ill health for so long that I'm only fit for these long obsessive ponderings before I have to rest from too much thinking, it's amazing how much energy it takes to be obsessive over something! Thank you so much for allowing me a place to discuss this topic so dear to my heart... by the way, fortunately I sing tenor! 😂
Hello Jude, A vocal coach associate of mine recommended a product called hearfones. They are designed to assist singers in hearing their voice in real time, thus improving there ability to improve pitch. You can view them through this link: hearfones.com/ Best regards, Darcy D
@@SingeoOfficial hello D'Arcy D thank you for this. They are a strange looking device! Seem to funnel the sound back up to the singers' ear which is interesting. A similar effect to cupping ones ear with a hand I imagine and on thinking of it that might be an experiment to try. At the moment I'm waiting for my busy wife to try another test I thought of using tuning forks: listening to the sound it makes pressed onto a table top compared to what she hears with it pressed on the bone near the ear. When I suggested this she told me I was assuming she would be able to tell if there *was* a subtle difference in note but I have high hopes, just need to pin her down now! Meant to ask if your vocal coach had any experience of using these with anyone who has complete 'tone deafness'? As opposed to using them as a tool to perfect a singers ability to, say, drop a sixth acurately or generally sing up and down the scale without losing pitch I mean....
Hi Deb, Every voice will have boundaries pertaining to range, dynamics and volume. The very size and shape of your body, plays a part in the range available to the singer. Think of a violin, a cello and a stand up bass. The violin because of its size and shape will sound higher in pitch. The cello will be more mid-range. And of course the bass will have deep, rich tones. So as a singer its important to select the correct key to sing songs in. This is especially relevant when singing cover songs. Knowing your vocal limits; how high or low you can sing comfortably will make it easier to find songs to sing. Practice will increase your ability to shape vowels correctly and in a balanced way. So you can exercise and sing without strain or disconnect. The repetition of balanced exercise will assist in expanding your range comfortably both lower and higher. To recap: Yes there will always be notes that you can not get to. There will always be songs (especially covers) that are out of your vocal range. And practice, provided you are doing the correct exercises, will always help you reach your goals. If you're not sure that you are doing the right exercise, or doing it correctly, seek the advise of a good vocal coach. All the best, Darcy D
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You took me back to high school just now. Choir practice the last class of the day. We would be having so much fun we would stay late until someone would remember “oh crap we have football practice or baseball” lol it was ok because we were always working towards a competition. Man those were the days.
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
1:31 - Ugly "AA" exercise
4:00 - Solfege
6:02 - Hearing notes before you sing them
7:37 - Outro
I love to write and have completed 2 songs, now I need my voice to sound great to sing them 😞 practice my vocals while I drive and at home. Hope I can get results 🙏 very soon. I follow you and love all your videos.
She is straight on point
This was truly a VERY helpful lesson..thank you so much! :)
PS: I can finally do the bubble properly!! Yayyyy
I have strengthen my voice so much watching your videos. Thank you
At one point when I’m trying asking AA sound I suddenly sound like the Count From Sesame Street. Then after laughing a bit I could tail it helped a bit.
this is a great explaination and good exercises for a beginner. We thank you.
Thank you Lisa. 🙏🙏
Thanks for the exercise!
So good! Thank you for these awesome lessons!
Great lesson.
I come to TH-cam looking for help. I can match pitch with scale exercises singing all the vowel pronunciations; ah, a (long), ooo, o (long), eee (long e), e (short), i, etc, etc. I do this all the time practicing and I do quite well singing each note on pitch. When I play a some songs with a band, I do not sing the correct note in the chord. I don't know if it is a memory thing or a muscle memory thing. Do you have any suggestions to sing the correct note in chords of a song?
my question is that do you need to have good voice if you want to learn singing? like some people sound great even when they literally speak. I have terible voice and just recent for past few months getting the urge to learn singing.. hopefully i can sing better one day.
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This ugly "A" is just typical for the Dutch dialect we speak in Antwerp (Belgium, Europe) ! So funny !
Good lessons, but my question is: what if the person THINKS they can sing on pitch, attacks the note confidently and follows through with the sound.... but cannot hear that they are missing the pitch a lot of the time?
Hi Craig,
Thanks for the question.
This is where a good voice coach comes into play. Every voice is different. There are 3 areas of concentration that singers have total control over.
Breath: How much is used on the exhale
Vocal Cords: the closing of the cords (adduction), creating sub glottal pressure from the lungs.
There has to be balance between the amount of air used and the level of adduction (cord closure). If the muscles of the vocal cords are not accustomed to resisting the amount of breath needed to get to the pitch intended, failure in the cord closure can occur, affecting the pitch. Likewise it too little or too much breath is applied, it can affect the pitch.
Vowels: the AA vowel by its very nature drives tone to chest voice and is a good vowel for bringing the vocal cords together. It can sound quite ugly but that's not because the singer is using excessive force. Saying this vowel in short staccato phrases will/should slowly start to correct the pitch. It is recommended to sing to a piano as the tuning is universal, and the habits formed by repetition will easy to apply to song later.
The ugly "AA" exercise is a great way to "just touch the notes". Thus the singer doesn't have to hold or sustain the pitch, making it easier to create a habit of finding the notes.
When doing the ugly AA exercise, be sure to not say the notes too low or too high. Keep it comfortable, finding the pitch and creating a habit.
The exercise doesn't have to be too aggressive to be useful. . .its a patience process.
If you're not sure that the pitch is correct, record yourself doing the exercise so you can listen to it.
I hope this makes sense. Again, as singers, each voice is so individual that sometimes a quick lesson with a vocal coach can put you on the path a little quicker.
All the best,
Darcy D
@@SingeoOfficial Thanks. All good information. Now all I have to do is convince this person that they need to try a voice coach...! (They think they don't need it...!!)
Aa aa aa aa Stayin' Alive, stayin alive...
You should make a song about misspeak
How do I know which letters to drop in words when I sing? Sometimes I think singing is like speaking, but it's so different. My words aren't smooth when I sing, and I know I am doing something wrong.
Hi, I'm a choral singer and I was taught to make the vowels as long as possible and to really clip the consonants clearly. Your 'T's, 'D's,' 'P's for example at the ends of words should be exaggerated so they can be heard. It feels as though you're overdoing it when you get it right.
If you listen to Dame Vera Lynn singing "There'll be Blue Birds Over the White Cliffs of Dover" she gives a fine example of what I mean. Once you hear her long vowels and clear consonants you can't unhear them! 😊
Hope this helps. 👍🙏
Excellent excersise Lisa, that will be a really useful tool.
I have something interesting about tone-deafness that for thirty odd years I've wanted to share with a singer who might be interested!
All that time ago my girlfriend (now wife) and I were dancing together in a bar in London. She was humming loudly to the song but so badly out of tune it was embarrassing and painful to my ears 😂.
So I kissed her and she carried on humming. To my absolute astonishment she was singing perfectly in tune in her head. So I came to the conclusion that there *is* such a thing as tone-deafness but it must be caused by some sort of misalignment of the bones in the head because the singer is hearing the right notes inside their head.
The reason I haven't felt able to share this with anyone musical is because we're two gay women of course. My music friends are not the sort of intimate friends I could share something like that with being of a certain age and all.
It's something that I really feel needs to be looked into by musicians and scientists/medics alike. There are so many people out there being ridiculed and traumatised by their 'bad singing' who could be being helped. Imagine hearing a perfectly good sound that you're making only to be told to be quiet because it's awful. Just so sad 😔
Be so interested to know if you or anyone out there in the ether has heard of this phenomenon or if my 'discovery' is a one off.
(I've always wondered if those ear pieces some singers use could have some useful bearing on the subject)
Many thanks for a great lesson.
Hey!!! I DO know that people can struggle to match pitch and believe that they are indeed singing correctly. In many cases, if the person can to some degree interpret changes in pitch or tone, they can train themselves to improve their ear/muscle coordination and match pitch. There is a fascinating article on this topic here : www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-neuroscience-of-tone/.
Thank you so much for weighing in on this!!
@@SingeoOfficial oh wow so people do study this kind of thing...how absolutely fascinating! Thank you so much for this link Lisa.
This study though is brain based and that is indeed where I had presumed tone deafness to originate. Having read it over a couple of times, though, they don't seem to have studied how the resonances of the facial bones might be interfering with the production of sound by the singer.
My wife can hear music made by others and be aware if it is discordant. She is also hypersensitive to notes in the higher register to the point that she cannot listen to a soprano voice without it being an uncomfortable experience. There is a point in the higher register when it gets beyond uncomfortable and she just ceases to hear it as though her brain (or is it the mind? ) shuts off the sound.
[ Incidentally her brain does that at the opticians... she finds all the tests tedious, by the time it gets to the field of vision test one of her eyes just stops seeing the little light jumping around. Her very perceptive optician found that if he gave her the children's test which has a Teddy bear jumping around and did it earlier in the process she remained engaged and completed the test... She was about 54 at the time!! ]
So back to the point, whilst, having recited that anecdote you see that I'm conscious of the significance of the brain and mind in tonedeafness, I do also wonder if there is a problem with how sounds are resonated in the bones of the head. Side note: she was a month preterm baby born in the sixties and I've often wondered if that might have resulted in the cranial bones not quite aligning fully as they should.
Such a fascinating subject and thank you for engaging with me on it. I wish I was fit enough to embark on my own study but I've been laid low by chronic ill health for so long that I'm only fit for these long obsessive ponderings before I have to rest from too much thinking, it's amazing how much energy it takes to be obsessive over something!
Thank you so much for allowing me a place to discuss this topic so dear to my heart... by the way, fortunately I sing tenor! 😂
Hello Jude,
A vocal coach associate of mine recommended a product called hearfones. They are designed to assist singers in hearing their voice in real time, thus improving there ability to improve pitch.
You can view them through this link: hearfones.com/
Best regards,
Darcy D
@@SingeoOfficial hello D'Arcy D thank you for this. They are a strange looking device! Seem to funnel the sound back up to the singers' ear which is interesting. A similar effect to cupping ones ear with a hand I imagine and on thinking of it that might be an experiment to try. At the moment I'm waiting for my busy wife to try another test I thought of using tuning forks: listening to the sound it makes pressed onto a table top compared to what she hears with it pressed on the bone near the ear. When I suggested this she told me I was assuming she would be able to tell if there *was* a subtle difference in note but I have high hopes, just need to pin her down now!
Meant to ask if your vocal coach had any experience of using these with anyone who has complete 'tone deafness'? As opposed to using them as a tool to perfect a singers ability to, say, drop a sixth acurately or generally sing up and down the scale without losing pitch I mean....
at the first glance I thought it was Robyn presenting the video
Can you tell me how to make melody?
Is there a point where you can't hit a note? How do we determine our range or is it just practice that increases our range?
Yes there is usually a point at which you just cant go any further! However, with practice you can increase your range :)
Hi Deb,
Every voice will have boundaries pertaining to range, dynamics and volume.
The very size and shape of your body, plays a part in the range available to the singer. Think of a violin, a cello and a stand up bass. The violin because of its size and shape will sound higher in pitch. The cello will be more mid-range. And of course the bass will have deep, rich tones.
So as a singer its important to select the correct key to sing songs in. This is especially relevant when singing cover songs.
Knowing your vocal limits; how high or low you can sing comfortably will make it easier to find songs to sing.
Practice will increase your ability to shape vowels correctly and in a balanced way. So you can exercise and sing without strain or disconnect. The repetition of balanced exercise will assist in expanding your range comfortably both lower and higher.
To recap: Yes there will always be notes that you can not get to. There will always be songs (especially covers) that are out of your vocal range. And practice, provided you are doing the correct exercises, will always help you reach your goals.
If you're not sure that you are doing the right exercise, or doing it correctly, seek the advise of a good vocal coach.
All the best,
Darcy D
@@SingeoOfficial I just watched the video where you were working on higher pitch. The vowel practice was very helpful! Thank you for your response!
How do I sing words that began with the letter H? For example, “Here” and “Heal”?
Try to avoid singing into the H and move right on in to the vowel that follows it :)
@@SingeoOfficial, so, I just sing “ere” and “eal”?
I tried this and my dogs left the room. Definitely have the "ugly" sound down
I assumed this video was going to be about autotune. 😂
Why does she shriek?
Even low notes?! 🤔
My poor poor neighbours !!!!!
Hahah mine too!
🌹🧡🧡👼🏻😘