Q. I love to sing but I want to keep my voice from getting damaged. I can't sing in high pitches but I would love to learn how to. What are some good ways to broaden my range.
A. Before and after you are actually singing, take care of your voice and warm up and warm down. This can be done by singing scales with a piano, or if you dont have one and are not that sure about the technicalities, just sing the doe, ray, me, fa, so, la, te, does, up and down and keep going! It's boring, but it will maintain your voice well and produce awesome sounds from your voice when your actually singing. Usually 15 minutes of solid scales before and after would be a good start. Don't ignore it, just do it!
Doing the scales will help you get the higher end notes too, because they efficiently excersise your voice and get it ready to attack all the notes in your range, and comfortably too, because your all warmed up!
If you don't do these excercises, you'll be damaging your throat and voice chords and it may affect you in the future. Ask any professional singer and he/she will tell you. Scales and more scales are the key to an increase in range and effectively get you ready to sing the songs you love!
Take care of that voice now!
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What does actually singing flat mean and how not to sing that way?
Q. People are telling me I'm not a horrible singer but that I sing flat. I heard that so many times. How can I help it? Does singing with synthesizer make any sense to sing not flat?
A. Kristina, first of all, start off with hitting 'c' on your keyboard, set to quite a simple sound - organ or piano. then raise or lower your voice until it sounds in tune with that note. Next step is to play a sequence of notes - any notes you like, then try to hit them in tune. It's just a matter of practice. Going up one white note at a time and practicing a scale, do re me fa so la ti do style should get you ears and vocal chords in sync. I've had friends who've not only been tone deaf, but had no rhythm go on to be great singers, so don't give up. One last tip that helped me was to raise your eyebrows when you sing. Sounds weird but strangely seems to sharpen your voice. There's free vocal training courses on the net like http://www.vocalist.org.uk/voicetraining.html that might help too... All the best, p.
Piano basics and fundamentals? things to set foundation for my playing? ways to learn?
Q. no money for lessons as of yet. keyboard with no pedals. i've played trumpet for 5 years. so I at least have some musical knowledge.
A. The step to learn piano:
1. You understand first the middle C (the C key in your piano which is the white key exactly in front of you), that locate it to your music scale both G-Clef and F-Cleff.
2. Understand what is the meaning natural key, i.e: C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C' (next octave). The middle C is a natural key. The C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C' is do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti (si)-do'.
3. Understand the meaning of # (sharp) and falt (b) in a key signature. Ever additional # or b (flat) to a key signature has many impact to the scale. Remember that the formula is: 1-1-1/2-1-1-1-1/2. That is the scale between one white key to another white key in natural C. By adding one accidental (# or b), all the scale will be changed. I.e: By adding one # will make the key signature is G Major or E-Minor, which note "do" is started from G and ended with F#. This pattern will make the sound will meet the formula 1-1-1/2-1-1-1-1/2.
4. Match and familiarize your finger to the tuts (this is called "fingering").
5. Study the meaning of chord, with formula: 2-1,5 for major chord, and 1,5-2 for minor chord. I.e: For chord C, the tuts are: C-E-G (This is major chord). The tuts for D chord: D-F-A (minor chord). Please understand why it is called major and minor. Hint: because the distance between the tuts in are different. C, F, G are major chord as they meet the formula: 2-1,5. While D, E,A, B are minor chord are meet the formula: 1,5-2.
6. Familiarize to listen to every sound generated by a single tuts, both by the white tuts and the black tuts. Also familiarize to distinct the sound of every chord, how is it sound like.
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