Common Vocal Mistake
Learning how to sing can be fun and easy if you take your time to learn how to practice properly. Common vocal mistakes like inner hearing issues, breath management and physical tension can add to anyone’s frustration.
As a vocalist or instrumentalist, intonation is a key element to good music. If you are out of tune than no matter how great your technique is you will sound terrible to your audience.
Persistent errors or off-key notes can be bothersome and hurt your confidence. Often there is a particular reason that you are making the same or similar error. In order to troubleshoot your intonation issue lets look at some common issues that occur.
Lets start with what you are hearing in your head. Does it match the melody?
Sit down at a piano or pick up a guitar and identify the problem notes or phrase. Often we have a rough idea of the phrase in question but in our “minds ear” we don’t have a full grasp of the phrase. We are continually glossing over the problem assuming that we know it.
Play the note or phrase on your piano several times, listen to the note and allow the not to fade after you strike it. Then sing the note unforced and without any expression or interpretation.
After you can sing the proper note without any problems, sing the passage a few notes before. Again, use no vocal expression or interpretation. Once you can sing the note successfully in the passage continue to add notes until you have mastered the notes of the song.
After the song is complete in as simple a vocal style as possible then you can begin to add expression and interpretation as you see fit.
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