Sometimes a song phrase feels easy to sing for a few notes and then suddenly feels awkward. The note itself isn’t too high, but the tone gets tight, the vowel shifts, and the words become hard to articulate. In some…
Start by humming a note in your range. Make the sound effortless, allow the lips to remain softly closed without any compression. After a few seconds, pause, take a breath and repeat on a close-by note. The goal of this…
When a note begins to oscillate, you start blowing harder to try to keep the pitch steady. For a brief moment it feels more solid, but it doesn’t last long, and soon the whole phrase is out of control. It’s…
Matching pitch is listening to a note, and singing it back to yourself at that same note. This might sound easy, but at first it is surprisingly hard to know if you are hitting the right note, or if you…