Singing On Pitch | How to Sing In Tune #1

1. Introduction: Hi, This course is a complete guide on how to get better at singing on pitch. Listen to this. The iron gates, veins, the sign where you see it was good. But the moments I went off parish, it becomes unbearable to listen to. And that's why I think the ability to sing on pitches, the most important thing, singing, because even if you have the best voice in the world, but you don't single pitch. You're not going to set up good. Now it's important to mention that it doesn't matter if someone is a bigger singer or an advanced one. It happens for all of us to seeing some known soft pitch. So it's really important to work on it and work on our ability to better control our pitch and to minimize the off knows as much as we can. And this course is all about this. To give you the tips, information and all the exercises you need to improve your pitch accuracy and controlled while you're singing. Now if you're at a corner, if singer that can almost always sing on page, skip this course and invest your time into improving other parts of your voice, the weaker parts of your singing ability. But if you were to kind of singer that really has difficulty to stay on pitch even for one phrase. Or you're a senior that sometimes goes off pitch, or you're somewhere in between these two, definitely use this course. It will help you get better. 2. Overview: Now, to give you a quick overview, the course is starts with the terms like what is singing off pitch, what is singing off key, the wars and the terms you need to understand before starting. Because we need to use the same dictionary in order to better communicate with each other. And the first lecture will provide exactly that. I've heard that I teach you why you might sink of pitch so that you really understand the roots of your problem before trying to solve it with the exercises you'll learn now about the exercises. They will be in the order of difficulty so that you can start out at a comfortable level. Step-by-step, improve your ability to sing with better pitch control and accuracy. So it really doesn't matter if an exercises too hard or too easy for you. If, for example, you have so much difficulty, you can start with the first exercise and gradually build your way up to the more difficult exercises. Or if the first exercises or too easy for you, you can skip them and go forward. The more difficult ones, you can do all of the exercises on your own or use the files that I attached to each exercise. And for more ease of use, there's two different files for each exercise. One is a demo file that has my voice as a demo to guide you. And one is an MP3 file that does not have any voice demo. Now, Jenna, start with the demo file and gradually as you get more comfortable with the exercise, go and practice with DAMPs your file. I should also mention that all of the exercises, whether the demo files or the MPG or false, coming two different versions, one for male singers and one for females to lower the chance of any war called range issues you might experience while you're practicing. For the last lecture, I will teach you how to get more out of your practice. So the ultimate goal of this course is to teach you how to practice and use exercises daily to improve your overall ability to sing with better pitch accuracy and control. Now, let's start. 3. Terms: You heard the term singing off pitch, singing off key and singing out of tune. What do they mean? Well, first you should know that singing of pitch is just the same as singing out of tune. And when you are singing of pitch or out of tune, you can be sharp or flat. By sharp, I mean, you are singing higher than the actual note that you should be singing. For example, this is the right notes. Now, if I go off pitch or out of tune, I might go sharp means a bit higher. I'm sharp right now, or I can go flat, meaning lower than the actual nodes. Now, what is singing off key and what's the difference between singing of CI and singing of pitch? Let's say you want to sing, for example, fades. And instead of this is singular like this with the iron. So fades. It's still on pitch, but it's off key. So when you sing off key, you can be still on pitch. Whereas singing off pitch, it's something, something like this. They are on. So fades. It's somewhat more obvious than singing off key. Now, what mostly causes you to singing off key is that you're not comfortable enough with the actual key of the song. For example, it might be too high for you. So you unconsciously Lord The key to make it somewhat easier for yourself. And you might not even realize that you are singing the song of key. If singing off key is one of your problems in your singing, you can easily fix it by simply changing the key of the song and bring it to where it's more comfortable for you to sing. The hard part about seeing if key is to just realize you're singing off key. And the exercises in this course will definitely help you to get better at noticing such problems. And the more you practice, the sharper your ears, we'll get to notice any pitch problem you might have while you're singing. 4. Why You Sing Off Pitch: What causes singing off pitch? It can have two reasons. The first reason, which is also the one that we're going to focus on in this course is the lack of mind, muscle coordination. Some people have a good mind muscle coordination between their ears and their instruments. And they can easily seemed on pitch and it seems like it's already built-in them. Now, some people habits, but not quite developed, and some people don't have it at all. By not having it at all. I don't mean being tone deaf. If you can hear that these two nodes are different than you or not tone deaf, it's a very rare medical condition. So if you can't sing on pitch, you just lack the proper coordination. And the goal of this course is exactly to teach you how to practice and train your voice and your ears to better coordinate with each other. One water, if your voice, your instruments cannot actually and properly produce the sound. That's the second reason why you might think of pitch. And most of the time the problem I see my students have that don't let them sing on pitch is that they don't know how to properly sink and how to use their voice, their instruments the right way. So their main problem is the lack of control over their voice. So that's why they sing of pitch. For example, if you tend to seem somewhat like this, the wrong game, face and your voice is under pressure, then you're definitely going to sink off pitch because you're not using your instruments the right way. But this course will not concern itself with teaching you how to properly sink. And for that, I can use my other course called How to sync the ultimate vocal exercises. 5. EX.1: Now it's fair to have an instruments like a keyboard or a piano, or any instruments application just like this on your phone or laptop ready so that you can practice along with me. And if not, that's fine. Why should demonstrations so you learn how to practice on your own later. You can also use the demo files or the MPG falls that I've provided for each exercise. Let's start play note and sing with it. And see if you're on pitch like this, or off like this. Or now. If you are too good at this exercise, for example, you can match every nod your heads, something like this. You can skim this exercise angle for the next one. Now if you don't know what you're singing is wrong or right, or, you know it's wrong, but you don't know if it's sharp or flat and how you can hit the right notes, you can simply move the notes that you're singing up or down to see if you get closer or further away from the node that you're hitting. For example, I'm on pitch right now. Now, imagine that I sing this nodes instead. Now I move the nodes up to see what happens. Now I'm on pitch. Now imagine if I moved it down instead. It's obvious that I'm getting further away from the node that I'm heading, please. If you don't get it right away, don't worry. You need time. You need to practice daily, play random notes for 51020 minutes a day and try to match the notes that you're hitting. After some time, you will definitely get better at it. So have patience. 8. EX.2: Now for the second exercise, you played a note so you don't sync with it like this. You first lesson. Recall it in your head. And Vincent, good. And if it's not there, for example, try again. Now I'm on pitch. So the only difference between this exercise on the previous one is that you don't sink while you're playing your first lesson and then recall it in your head and saying it while you are doing here is that you're training your brain to listen to notes more carefully, remember those nodes and recall them. And there are some things you really need to keep in mind while you're doing this exercise. The first thing is that it does not matter how much time it takes to find a note. It takes ten minutes to find OneNote, 20 minutes, 30 minutes. You're working on a skill you read. You really need to have patients. The second thing is to not hesitate in your head here in the notes and be decisive. Just seeing it. Don't hesitate. If you hesitate and if you're not decisive, you're going to sing it off pitch, doesn't matter or how you're going to sing it off pitch. So be decisive. It's really fine to be wrong. It's really fine to be wrong. You will learn from it and then you fix it. The third thing is that you should not slide to nourish the notes you want like this. Only accept one naught from yourself. Don't see me like, it's really a bad habit to develop in your voice to start from a wrong note and then a slide to reach the right one. You're just hitting one nodes. So you will see only one naught be decisive. And if it's not there, you try again. 9. EX.2 demo male: Um 11. Tuner : If you have a lot of difficulties matching the notes you're playing, or you don't even know whether you're singing the same notes or not. For example, you played this, is saying this and you don't know what you can do to match it or you play it. And he's saying this. And you don't know if what you're singing is the same as what you're playing or not? Well, what he can do to make it a bit easier for yourself is to get help from a tuner app. This is my favorite tuner, it's called vocal pitch monitor is free for Android, but I don't know about iOS. Most tuner apps will do the work. So download a bunch of them and see which one you liked the most. Now, let's play notes. E4. Now let's sing it. B2. So this way, you know, if you're on pitch or not, and if you're off, like now, whether you need to go up or down and how much you need to go in order to match your notes you're playing. For example, let's play in R nought, G4. Now let's sing it. The tuner shows us that I'm singing a sharp four. So I need to go down in order to match the notes. I'm playing. Another example, a sharp three. You see I'm singing the right notes, some, somewhat known, but one octave lower. And this happens a lot. And you might think you are singing derived node, body or one octave lower. Now it's the right nodes. So it's a great tool to help you with finding your pitch. But there are some problems that comes along with using a tuner. And the first one is that it's not meant to help you find your pitch in a precise amount. You should not use it. For example, like this. I'm a bit to the left, It's a bit to the right. You don't have to fix it right at the nodes. By seeing the tuner. It will become an ongoing battle that do more harm than good and leave you really frustrated. And why you might ask, because you're trying to find the exact notes with your eyes. Because you're trying to find the exact node with your eyes, nuts, your ears. So use the tuner or let's say get help from it. Just to give yourself and your ears an extra hand. So just use it for knowing where you are singing at and whether you need to go up or down to match your notes, it just gives you more awareness and that's all. So don't put it in front of yourself and trying to match knows precisely like this. Now the second problem I want to talk about is that it's the job of your ear to find notes, not your eyes. Just get held from tuner when you are in total doubt and you cannot find the notes or you don't know if it's there or not. I say use it 5, 10% of the time. More than that might make you become dependence to always use it and you don't want that. The goal of all these practices is to improve your ears, nose, your eyes. So if you use tuner after you become better at sensing where you're singing in your range and you could judge your pitch better. Stop using the tuner. Don't forget that our goal is to build a proper coordination and not customer ourselves to always rely on a tool to help us sing pitch. Nerve thing about using tuner rafts, that's worth mentioning is that the tool is not accurate 100% of the time it might seem D4. But in my show you d Phi because of the resonance of the room, or because you might singing too loud or whatever, or it might hear a noise. So all doing it's a great tool. Don't be 100% sure about it. 12. EX.3: Now the third exercise is just like the second one, but we add more notes to it. So instead of one note, we play three notes. And if it's not there, you try unseal. It matches the notes that you're playing. And be decisive. Don't hesitate. It's just a trial and error game. You simply learn from your mistakes and you get better. Now, if this exercise is somewhat easy for you, you can make it harder by using the shortest and the longest intervals to get her not a shortest seen several in Western music is a half-step like this. Or it's hard because it's hard to make slight changes in your voice. But if you really want to get good at your ribs and runs or your vibrato, you really want to practice half-steps. Now by long intervals, I mean something like this. Now if you combine these together, you really make it difficult melody for yourself. You can make this exercise even harder by adding more nodes. Lie. For example. Let's add another. 15. EX.4: So far every exercise you practice worked with playing random notes. But what about scales? Practicing with scales due to L2? Let me put it this way. Whatever forces your brain to memorize and recall different frequencies will be helpful to you. Now these frequencies can be random or they can be in scale. So playing scales and practicing with them can be a great way to improve your pitch accuracy and control. And among all the scales we have, my favorite one by far is the chromatic scale. Because it's all half-steps and it's great for pitch control. Or. 20. How To Practice: Let's answer some key questions about your practice. What should be the actual sound you're seeing with while you're practicing your exercises. Or what's the best sound to practice with. If your goal is to improve your pitch, you have two options. One is to practice with an open mouth sound like in Mar, or a closed mouth sound like you're home. Now, at first you might want to stick to the one that's easier for you, but I strongly suggest you to practice with a home. Why? Because something like MR. lets you change the tonality so easily. But a harm is a hub. You can change it that much. It's more pure pitch. It's more about the pitch, then it's about the tone. So when you sing with a hum, you hear more pitch. You can focus more on the pitch that on the tone. For example. Should I sing it with why broad or should I sing it louder? Should I sing it with more air? But if it's a harm, then it's the home, then it's more pure pitch. And when, when anything is wrong with the pitch, you're going to notice it way easier because there's less information about the tone. Now I should also mention that you shouldn't force your voice to sing a note that she can sing. For example, if it's too high for you, either don't sink it or if you want to sing it, singing with an easier sound like this. Now should you start practicing and how should your daily practice look like? You can test the exercises to see which one is challenging for you in a way that it's not too difficult nor too easy and start practicing there. For example, if exercise one is challenging for you, we'll start there and gradually work your way up. Or if exercise 12 or too easy for you, skip them and only focus on exercises 34 for your daily practice, you can practice from ten minutes up to one or even two hours a day. As with developing any skill, the more time you put into practice, the faster you will see the results. But one thing that's even more important than the time you put into practice is the amount of consistency you have. No skill can be learned without consistency. So practice daily, even if you can only practice for short amount of time, you will definitely see results if you're consistent enough with your practice. Now one thing to keep in mind when you practice is to work on all the different parts of your vocal range. The bottom, middle, top, more top. Now, there's one thing you can do to get way more out of your practice and also improved faster. And that is to make yourself hear yourself better. And when you think about it, it's obvious that if you hear yourself better, you will be able to notice the pitch issues. The off notes you have better when you notice any issue is easier to fix it. So how can you hear yourself better simply by copying one of your ears like this. When you pop your ear, you will be able to hear more pure pitch tested and you will definitely notice the change. Now, is there anything I can do accept practicing these exercises to improve your pitch? Yes. Listen to music, more music. And I don't mean listen casually. I mean, listen more actively and really work on your listening skill. Especially listened to more jazz and classical music. These music will really challenge on working on your listening skill.