Q. Please I need someone with experience to coach me through singing. I can't afford to pay for a coach. Another thing is to me my voice does not sound good at all. Email me if you want to help. Shizu50@yahoo.com
A. I can't take the time to actually give lessons, but I can give some advice that helped me achieve a near 4 octave vocal range.
Some things are obvious..
1.Always stay well hydrated when practicing your singing.. Otherwise, you may damage your chords.
2.Don't push yourself to hard, you could damage your chords by trying to hard.
That being said, I'll get to the real advice.
Essentially, you have three voices.
Chest, mix, head.
Chest is your lower powerful voice.
Mix is the balanced voice in between chest and head.. Think of chest voice as your bass voice, mix as your mid voice, and head as your treble voice.
Head, as I just stated, is your higher voice.. Not to be confused with falsetto, which doesn't even apply to girls.
Some things that helped so much would be:
1.Always try to stay on key and sing the exact same notes as the song you listen to.
It doesn't matter if you think you sound retarded, IT HELPS... As a Baritone/Tenor (I'm both), I expanded into Soprano by constantly singing Nick Pitera's A Whole New World as a joke.
2.Go some place as private as possible, and just try to belt out as strongly as possible.
Note, I said as strongly as possible.. That doesn't mean you should push yourself too hard.
Just sing at a regular volume, and slowly start singing more and more powerfully.
3.Try to learn and instrument, I'd suggest the piano.
Learning an instrument refines your ears... But also, it allows you to learn a little music theory.
4.Range is good, but being proficient in your true vocal range (for me it's Baritone and Tenor, though even I lean toward baritone a little more). If you are a Mezzosoprano, it's awesome if you can hit C6, or A2 on the lower end, but what you need to be proficient in, is your true range. Which, if you are a Mezzo, that would be A3-A5. Or if you are a Contralto (lowest female voice) E3-G5, and Soprano (highest) C4-C6.
All that being said, I have worked my way to a range of F2-D6, and after warm-ups, I can sometimes go from E2-F6 and occasionally G6. I hope you succeed as well!
Piano Basics Help (music language, chords, signs, etc.)?
Q. Hi, I've been playing piano for the last couple months (without all the lessons and formal crap but just making songs by ear and I'd say I'm pretty fluent in both hands and basic harmonic notes).
Well one song I had a hard time getting my right hand notes in harmony with my left hand notes so I googled the song sheet but theres all that junk about minor this and major that and chords.
So the reason I'm writing right here is to ask:
- In simple terms, what is a chord? is it like a harmony note (F1,C,F2) (D1,G,D2) -- I dont know how to describe them. its like the most common left hand notes I play; ex.) F1>C>F2>C>G>C>H>C?
- Im tring to learn piano sheet language but its so confusing with all the sharps and 'b's and changing sign thingys (the C with the : and wierd looking F) for the bottom row. any useful tips or link?
- What are majors and minors? like canon in blank major blah blah blah
Thanks in advance
A. A chord is a harmonization of different notes. Major and Minor triads are the most common. Such As, C4, E4, and G4 (a C major triad), or A4, C5, and E5 (an A minor triad). If you were wondering, the number's at the ends of the notes are the different pitch classes, these tell you the frequency of the octave of the note: A4 = 440hz, A5 = 880hz, etc; the different pitch classes tells you what octave your on on the note your playing. In simpler terms, a major triad chord is 3 notes made up of certain note intervals. The major triad comes from a major scale. Lets take the C major scale for example. The notes of the C major scale are C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C. Each note has a different scale degree assigned to it: C would be the 1st scale degree, D would be the second, E would be the third, and so on. The distance between two notes in the scale can be labeled with an interval. From C to C would be a perfect unison, or P1 (perfect first), from C to D would be a M2 (major 2nd), C to E would be a M3 (major 3rd), C to F would be a P4 (perfect fourth) C to G would be a P5 (perfect fifth), C to A would be a M6 (major 6th), C to B would be a M7 (major 7), and C4 to C5 would be a P8 (perfect 8th, this is also called an octave). So as you can see, a basic C major triad, C, E, and G, is based off of the 1st, 3rd, and 5th scale degrees. There are 12 different types of major keys: C, G, D, A, E, B, F#/Gb, C#/Db, Ab, Eb, Bb, F. They all consist of whole steps and half steps. A whole step consists of two consecutive half steps. A half step is the smallest interval between two notes (from A to A# is a half step, from A to Ab is a half step, from C to B is a half step, from G to G# is a half step, etc). All major keys rely on the same order of whole and half steps: W W H W W W H (from C to D is a whole step, from D to E is a whole step, from E to F is a half step, from F to G is a whole step, from G to A is a whole step, from A to B is a whole step, and from B to C is a half step). A G major scale goes like this: G, A, B, C, D, E, F#, G (G to A is a whole step, A to B is a whole step, B to C is a half step, C to D is a whole step, D to E is a whole step, E to F# is a whole step, F# to G is a half step). A D major Scale goes like this: D, E, F#, G, A, B, C#, D. Minor scales are a little different. In a minor scale, the order of the whole and half steps changes to: WHWWHWW. A C minor scale would be like this: C, D, Eb, F, G, Ab, Bb, C (C to D is a whole step, D to Eb is a half step, Eb to F is a whole step, F to G is a whole step, G to Ab, is a half step, Ab to Bb is a whole step, and Bb to C is a whole step). A G minor scale would be this: G, A, Bb, C, D, Eb, F, G. Also, a C minor triad, since it is still based off of the 1st, 3rd, and 5th scale degrees, would be C, Eb, and G (the difference between a minor chord and a major chord is the minor third interval, in this case, it is Eb). The difference in sound between a major key and a minor key is that a minor key sounds sounds somber and a major key sounds happy. All because of the way the notes are formed. Also, by the way, there is no H note, the notes are based off the first seven letters of the alphabet: A, B, C, D, E, F, and G.
Go to musictheory.net, or emusictheory.com, those websites would really work well if you wanted to learn music theory.
Developing a deeper voice?
Q. Hello,
A lot of the people I know tell me I have a deep voice. That's great but I kinda want it to go a little deeper as the lowest note I can hit is D#3. Is it possible to go deeper than that? Is that even considered a deep voice? If so, what are some things I can do to maybe permanently lower the pitch of my voice?
A. your lower register tends to be more fixed than you upper register so there isn't really much you can do especially when you can go pretty low anyway which it sounds like you can (I'm assuming you mean Eb2 on a piano).
you can try a few things though. you can do exercises to strengthen your neck muscles as this means you vocal chords can be more relaxed and you will be able to go deeper more easily. you can also try singing very low and eventually you might improve at it. Also I've heard that death metal screaming/growling can extend your vocal range at both ends but I haven't tried it and I don't know if it damages your voice.
but really you can't expect to be able to get much deeper. maybe a few semitones at the most. Eb2 is already pretty low for a guy. most guys struggle to go below about E2 or F2 and higher pitched guys might not even be able to go below about G2 so your voice is already pretty deep.
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