How to Sing on Pitch - Ear Training for Singers

hi guys I'm Madeline Harvey thank you so much for hanging out with me today we're going to talk about ear training for singers how can we isolate pitch an interval to become much better singers so if you like today's video please be sure to give it a thumbs up or click that subscribe button below I would love to see you here more often the video that you're about to watch was taken as a clip from a live lesson that was shot earlier today if you'd like to watch the entire live which has so many exercises in it then I invite you to click that join button below and become a member of this channel as a member you'll have exclusive access to all of our lives that we shoot every Monday and Thursday at 12 pm Central Standard Time so again just click that join button it's only 4.99 a month and your contribution helps to support our channel that way we can continue to deliver awesome content for you you ready to get started here we go thank you foreign happy Thursday I hope you're having a wonderful week so far Welcome to our live this morning this afternoon we're going to be talking about ear training so it's very important to be able to discern intervals which are the spaces between notes it will make you a very good singer not only with your ability to distinguish the difference between notes but also your ability to isolate those frequencies with your voice so this today's live comes as a question from Michelle Smiley and when I read this question oh my heart just went to her because I understand the feeling so here we go I love how you teach thank you so much my issue is I do not know music so even with your breakdown I do not understand the terminology and where to start for example what song Fits my voice I have no clue we'll continue to work on that nor do I really have anyone who can tell me to take a line and practice for pitch or accuracy even recording myself I honestly do not know if I am accurate or how accurate I am so we'll be able to identify those pitches I'll continue here I actually go to open mics and part of a Duo and what I hear from those I know is we improve every week so that's great but I do not know what they mean or what I have done to improve I will record all of those and at least half the time I listen and cringe thinking I am off and those in the know will say it was one of the best versions that we've done I know that I need help with technique but I'm not sure the best way to do that alone because I do not have anyone to reflect back to me what I am doing right or wrong okay alrighty so let's break this down we've got with music it's really important you don't have to know a lot of music a lot of Music Theory but it is important to notice that listening to music and singing music are two very very different things now this always comes as a shock to singers because they will sing as they're listening to a song but that is not helpful that actually leads you down pitchiness more so than we might realize partly because when you're listening to a pitch you're able to identify the pitch but when you sing the pitch when you replicate the pitch using your voice that is a different skill set that is a vocal coordination so when you're listening to music and then you go to sing it which one are you doing are you listening are you singing most people will listen and sing simultaneously which kind of means you're not really doing either or your your mind is not invested in either or so what happens is is the voice starts to search for what it thinks the pitch is and that's where we really fall into pitchiness in in our singing so this is one of the things that we're going to do today for the interest of time I've broken down five six six things that we're going to talk about today we're going to talk about intonation which means coming into the pitch a single pitch and then we're going to talk about major seconds major third major fourth major fifth and then the octave so these are popular intervals so second third fourth fifth octave they just highlight the spaces between the notes so we'll take a look at those two together okay so let's go ahead and start with intonation that's the ability to hear a pitch and then recreate it a single pitch so before we get into this because this is actually going to be really crazy I want you to have prepared as best as you can so I would encourage you before you begin with this to get the most out of your ear training I want you to have some sort of pitch listening app so if you're watching on your computer and you have your phone handy then pull up a pitch listening app on your phone and use it in your practice now if you can't do that now that's okay but for later I'm gonna show you I always have this is my phone I've always got my Pano tuner going so let me see if I can there we go get that middle seat can you guys see that okay it's really focusing on me there you go so that's middle C so I want you to be able to intonate and get that feedback from the tuner real time that way you know you're on that pitch and your voice isn't sliding around it's not searching for that pitch okay so we're gonna really focus in on C to C today so we've got our first intonation which is Middle C I want you to hear it first and then sing it so remember listening and singing are two separate things actively listen [Music] and then sing it back holler hum it back actively listen again in doing this you're tuning your vocal coordinations to be able to isolate the frequency of that one pitch and that's all you're navigating just the one so let's move up from there [Music] ah foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] remember actively listen then sing [Music] foreign [Music] and it's going to be a lot of fun when you've got that piano tuner out and you're getting that feedback that you are singing the same pitch that you're hearing good so that's our intonation that will serve as our one so when we talk about intervals oftentimes in a song the song is written in a sequence of chords and the chords consist of one three five so if I was playing a C chord I would play the one which is what we just intonated right and then the three which we'll go over in just a second and the five and played them together that is a chord so that is what music is based off of in terms of production so now we're going to move on to our major second so the second note if you've been with me a while and especially with these latest video when we worked on strengthening of the vocal cords we worked a lot with one two because it's a small interval now I really want you to feel that as you listen and then you replicate it what we're getting into is the nitty-gritty of that exact space between the one and the two I often say it's like playing a violin or cello because those instruments don't have Frets like a guitar does so the instrumentalist has to really feel where the pitch is on the string such is the case for our vocal cord coordination are replicating of the note our singing of it so if we're playing one then we want that's our two right so just hear that interval all right so now if you want go ahead and take your fingers put them on your larynx we could say ma we can say love me a good guy so we're gonna go with the intonation and then we're gonna pull those cords back to get to that second so if we're at C the second note is D Okay so and come back to C I love love love can't express my love for this type of work because it Tunes your vocal cords in the same way that you would tune a guitar towards hearing interval hearing pitch so let's try that together listen first good now let's sing it [Music] God [Music] foreign notice how we didn't go [Music] that's a semitone so we're able to identify that that wasn't accurate that wasn't the same interval as the D to the E so good let's go go forth [Music] thank you God [Music] it's very satisfying if you've got that pitch listening app up and you're saying oh you're right on it right on that money it you can feel those muscles that govern the range pitch range really tuning in to exactly what this interval feels like let's continue foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] good so you can feel how the interval of one to two major second sounds the same even as we go up it was a very distinct step to it from one to two very good now check this out we're going to go into a major third now and that is the first bit of our chord right playing that c major chord we've got one three so now we're gonna feel just how much space in between one and three there is if you're if you're getting down to the nitty gritty of sensation which is how your body learns it breaks it down to sensation two [Music] okay so now let's give a listen just give it a listen to one two three good let's sing that it's a lot more pullback of those chords rather than just the one to two [Music] very very different feeling so let's keep it with one to three foreign [Music] [Music] thank you God [Music] now I'm gonna tell myself I almost went a little sharp on that one I almost went you see how that does not sound the same as good so it's really really helpful to get that feedback of that pitch listening app so I'm using that panel tuner I really like it and that's helped me identify that I was getting a little over excited about going higher and I almost overshot it and went to B now if I didn't have that tuner going I might not have recognized that because as I'm singing I am singing now I'm kind of listening but that's why we play it first so that we can actively listen break down those pinches but then once we go to sing I am focused in on that that Sensation that vocal cord coordination so let's try that one again Give a listen [Music] God [Music] see [Music] foreign good very good that is a major third now I'm gonna do this as I recap we're going to feel the differences between one and two and three but we're going to put one in between each one we're gonna do this including all five notes here in a minute but we've got one two one three two to feel that that play out inside of your larynx so give a listen because that's a lot of notes good now we're gonna sing that here we go listen God [Music] [Music] God [Music] just a few more foreign oh God [Music] God [Music] yes that is a relationship between one and two one three one two one now don't be discouraged if you're feeling like you're in Pitch but your pitch listening app is going because that's a lot of movement that's a lot of movement going really meditate on the feeling of a violin player taking that finger and trying to find the pitches honing in and doing it with some relative speed the reason why I'm having us listen before we go is because I want you to hear it and try as best you can not to sing or hum as you're hearing it because the ear bone is not always connected to the voice bone initially and we're trying to fine-tune our perceptions being able to hear the differences between the frequencies of pitch but also our Sensations being able to feel the differences between the frequencies of pitch okay you're you will tune your voice like you tune a guitar so if if you play guitar and if you play a string instrument it's like and then you tighten he's like you really have to fiddle with it for a minute until you get the exact pitch you're looking for so be not discouraged do not lose heart you're doing great you're doing great so now we're gonna kind of get into the weirdest interval of the day because our chord is based off of one three five so we're gonna play a four foreign

Channel: Madeleine Harvey

Views: 35,900

Keywords: how to sing on pitch, ear training, pitch training, sing on pitch

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Length: 23min 38sec (1418 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 21 2023