Sing on Pitch: 3 Exercises to Make It Happen Every Time

what up guys this your boy Matt from Ramsey voice calm and today I am going to teach you to sing on pitch and sing in tune fast and I mean fast like this is kind of crazy because I've been wanting to do a video on pitch for a while and it's because I see so many beginning singers who are convinced absolutely convinced they are tone-deaf and they're not they just need a little bit of help and a little bit of feedback from a good voice teacher so I'm really excited to share with you what I've learned today by the way you're gonna get three huge things out of our lesson today number one you're gonna learn exactly what pitch is and where it comes from in your voice you're also going to learn the three main reasons that people sing out of tune or sing off pitch and I'm also going to give you three fantastic exercises to learn to sing on pitch and in tune today now Before we jump in if you guys find this video helpful make sure it hit like comment with the next kind of video that you want to see me do subscribe and turn on notifications for this channel or if you're ready to learn to sing on pitch and improve your singing voice today check out my complete singing course master your voice the links in the description all right let's jump in so what is pitch and where does it come from the pitch is the note or the tone that you're singing and to sing on pitch or to sing in tune means that you're hearing the melody that you're supposed to be singing and you're actually able to replicate it or to produce it easily so if the melody is then I want to be able to sing don't a meemaw or sometimes whatever it happens to be I want my voice to be able to match exactly what the melody is supposed to be to make this a little bit more difficult unfortunately you're not always going to have a piano that's playing the exact notes that you're supposed to be singing oftentimes you'll just have the chord so you actually have to kind of like Intuit the melody on your own so and goes on from there so you'll see that I didn't actually play the notes as I sang them I just had to know that that was the melody and I had to get my voice to match it now I want to go on record and say that everybody sings off pitch and out of tune sometimes even Freddie Mercury there's a fantastic example of like at the end of somebody to love where you sit and then he actually gets up to the right now he was a little bit flat on the two at first and then he actually corrects it and if you don't believe me that's fine just go back and listen to it yourself it's a little bit flat at first and then he corrects it now the whole deal is if you are a little bit off pitch do you know it and how quickly can you correct it that is going to be a huge huge focus of what we're working on today is like being aware of it but also making sure that you can correct it and that's the great stuff all this talk about pitch and singing in tune really makes you wonder like where does pitch actually come from well as you could probably guess and if you've watched any of my other videos you know that all singing comes from the vocal chords this one pair of membranous vocal cords that are housed inside of your larynx or inside of your voice box now all of the pitch comes from there and the reason in the way that it comes from there is that the thicker the vocal cords are the slower they're going to vibrate and that's a lower note that you're going to end up singing another way to say it is that the more stretched out my vocal cords are the faster they're going to spin or the faster they're going to vibrate and the higher pitch that I'm going to get so you can just imagine like if I had a rubber band in between my fingers here like if I flick and it wasn't very stretched you would just get the just like a really really slow vibration but if I pulled it really tight I would get fine bang bang I would get a much higher pitch the vocal cords work in the same way except that rather than thickening or slacking them by pulling my fingers apart the reason that they're able to do that is if my larynx tips forward a little bit with more of my head voice muscle then the vocal cords will naturally stretch out a little bit more and I'll get a higher pitch they slacken by relaxing that muscle when I sing and for each one of those notes my larynx is adjusting so that my vocal cords are stretching out a tiny bit more tiny bit more tiny bit more tiny bit more tiny bit more so that I'm actually able to hit each one of those individual notes another way to think about it is think of the strings on the guitar the thicker strings at the bottom of the guitar are always going to vibrate more slowly than the thinner ones that are at the top they're just naturally going to vibrate a little bit slower and you're gonna get a lower pitch the thin ones are going to vibrate a lot faster and you're going to get a higher pitch the vocal cords working exactly the same way now I promised you earlier that I was going to tell you the three main reasons that people sing out of tune or off pitch and how they can start to correct that the biggest reason that I've seen that people don't sing on pitch is that their voice is not really well coordinated yet maybe they haven't really done a whole lot of singing or they haven't had a lot of voice lessons before but for whatever reason they just don't have the experience of singing in different parts of their voice I've had students come in to me all the time that they're like I'm tone-deaf I'm totally off and I'll have them sing a really simple scale like a knob and at first they start saying and then as soon as I have them actually meet me or sometimes I go down in the scale and actually meet them where they are comfortable then all of a sudden they're able to they're actually able to find the right note so they're not tone-deaf at all it's just they don't have the experience of actually matching those pitches with their voice just yet the second main reason people sing out of tune or off pitch is because they need to work on their ear training so this is what a lot of people think is that they're tone-deaf or that they need to work on their ear for whatever reason they can't get their ear in their voice box to agree on what the note is so like these are the students that you know if I sing like an amazing like they're in a completely different part of their voice than I am because they haven't actually heard where that correct notice now with these students a lot of people think that that's like oh man you're tone-deaf you're never gonna learn how to sing better with those students it's more important that they actually feel the vibrations that are coming from my own voice and that they're here in the room with me but as I said a lot more students just need to coordinate their voice better and that can often be done in online voice lessons as well the third reason that people sing out of tune is a combination of both of those maybe their ear training is suffering and they really need to work on finding each one of those individual spots in their voice with a voice teacher and also they need to coordinate their voice and often times those things will happen together because you know if you're 2530 years old and you've never done any singing before it's gonna be kind of wobbly at first you know it's like learning how to ride a bike when you're older like I'm thinking of like Michael Scott in the office like learning how to ride a bike it's just like it's one of those things that you know if you're a little bit older it sometimes takes a little bit more time and a little bit more focused practice to actually get more in tune but don't worry everybody that I've ever worked with even the people that have been assessed as being tone-deaf by other voice teachers have learned how to sing in tune over time and I cannot wait to share with you my three favorite exercises to do that now in this first exercise that I'm going to show you I'm just going to show you a very very simple scale that you can use to start training your ear for each of the individual notes themselves what we're gonna do is we're just gonna look at a five tone scale five notes up five notes down and we're gonna do that on Solfeggio or solfege as it's called where we're actually taking each one of those notes and we're putting them on to an italian syllable for those who aren't familiar i'm not actually using a fixed OU system here so i'm not playing in the key of c I'm actually starting in the key of E which is where a lot of guys will start being more comfortable however if this is your first time starting off with solfege all I want you to do is just identify each one of those notes with the syllable kind of like a dodo and if you're able to start identifying each note no matter what Kiran we could do it in the key of G note Amy Fossum ami Rando then you'll actually start being able to feel whether you're on or off so we're gonna do just a couple scales of those four guys guys we'll start right down here so it'd be like a doe name Asafa mean a doe doe day me fossa from ebay doe doe baby puss off mommy date great job ladies we'll do the same thing starting here on the a3 so donate or donate me pacify me radio and obey me possum mommy radio and again as you start just kind of identifying each one of those notes with one of those Italian syllables you'll be amazed at how you can start to find the melodies in different songs just by simply singing each one of those notes moving on from the ear training section of the singing on pitch tutorial I actually want to go ahead and address the students out there that are just having issues coordinating their voice in other words they can hear the note fine they just can't replicate it here because they just don't have the experience yet and I'll say that there's two main ways that they can go wrong number one is they might sing really really flat in other words if this is the note that they're trying to hit like an O then they're singing notes below that somewhere else besides ah if they're singing flat what I recommend is I recommend using scales that are quite wide in range on more heavy vowels and heavy vowels tend to be more kind of close and narrow those in this particular case we're going to look at an octave and a half scale which is pretty wide and we're gonna look at a gig Iggy Sound which again that Yee is very narrow and tends to encourage a lot of head voice so we're gonna just do a couple of octave and a half scales and what we're gonna do is we're just going to replace each one of the notes with the word key now if you haven't heard the octave and a half scale before oftentimes I find that it's really easy to memorize it with just the rhythm in this case we're gonna use like a triple let triple that triple it triple it done okay so it's for triplets and then it done so for guys I'm gonna just demonstrate it down here you can join me here Kiki Kiki Kiki notice that none of them we're flat I'm not good I'm not going flat up there I'm just keeping on each one of the notes and that will kind of unlock me from being so stuck into my pinkie geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek great job ladies let's do the same thing here again and this is if you're singing flat sometimes you just need to get unlock key key key key key key fantastic job guys and our final exercise today I'm gonna show you what to do if you're singing sharp in other words if this is the note that we're trying to sing ah in using somewhere anywhere above that note is going to be sharp so the opposite would be flat which we just covered if you're seeing sharp there's a good chance that you're not actually using enough chest voice and so in this particular exercise I'm going to give you an exercise over a very short span the the range is very small with a more chesty or a more open vowel in this case we're gonna do it on a GUG GUG GUG like you're saying the word guts but with a G at the end so what we're gonna do is we're just gonna do that on the five tone scale that I showed you for the solfege but in this case we're just gonna switch each one of those notes onto the word GUG so we're just gonna say gah gah gah gah gah gah gah gah gah make sense great let's do it guys you can join me right here so gah gah gah gah gah gah gah gah gah a lot of chest not sharp gah gah gah gah gah gah gah gah gah last one gah gah gah gah gah gah gah gah gah ladies let's try the same thing make sure that your first pitch is totally on and trying to memorize where that note is so we're starting from God like a gah gah gah gah gah gah gah gah gah gah gah gah gah gah gah gah gah gah last one gah gah gah gah gah gah gah gah gah guys I am so excited for you I know that if you just practice these exercises and really pay attention to what your voice is doing consider recording your you singing along with these scales that way you can hear where your off I'm so excited for you because I know that if you just practice singing along with these very simple scales you're gonna see miraculous progress in being able to sing on pitch so I can't wait to see it guys if you found this video helpful make sure to click like comment with the next video that you want to see me do subscribe and turn on notifications for this channel or if you're ready to improve your singing voice check out my complete singing course master your voice just click the link to get on the waitlist

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Length: 14min 25sec (865 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 28 2020