Correct a flat pitch

🎹 HOW TO SING 🎤 ON PICTH 📋 CORRECTING YOUR PICTH 🖊🎶 📋🎶 Season 2. Episode 3. CORRECT A FLAT PICTH🎷🎤 If you are singing flat, you are signing below the target pitch. This may be caused by fatigue, inability to focus or support your breath, singing outside of your vocal range, relaxed facial muscles, or the inability to properly monitor your voice. You can correct your flat tone by: ◆Improving your breath support. ◆Visualizing approaching the pitch from above instead of below. ◆Keeping your chin parallel to the floor. ◆Raising your eyebrows and or smiling. ◆Changing the key of the song. ◆Monitoring your voice closely. ◆Getting adequate rest before a performance or lesson. For live lessons and interactive class join us via https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Correcting your pitch

🎹 HOW TO SING 🎤 ON PICTH 📋 CORRECTING YOUR PICTH 🖊🎶 📋🎶 Season 2. Episode 2. CORRECT A SHARP PICTH🎷🎤 If you are singing sharp, you are singing above the intended pitch. This may be caused by tense abdominal muscles, a locked jaw, or lack of focus. You can correct these problems by: •Relaxing your muscles and softening your tone. •Singing with less force. •Monitoring your jaw for tightness and relaxing it when it begins to tense up. •Working on your breath control. •Monitoring your voice closely and remain focused. For live lessons and interactive class join us via https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Stand in the correct singing posture

🎹 HOW TO SING 🎤 ON PICTH 📋 CORRECTING YOUR PICTH 🖊🎶 📋🎶 Season 2. Episode 1.STAND IN THE CORRECT SINGING POSTURE🎷🎤 If you are struggling to sing on pitch, your posture may be to blame. When you stand in the correct posture, you will have an easier time producing the right pitch and controlling your voice. To stand in the correct singing posture: ☆Place your feet slightly apart with one foot just in front of the other front. Transfer the weight of your body from your heels to your toes. ☆Maintain a slight bend in your knees. Never lock your knees. ☆Place your hands at your sides. Keep your hands relaxed. ☆Your stomach should be flat and firm, yet expandable. ☆Pull your shoulders back and down. ☆Your chest should be held high. ☆Keep your chin parallel to the floor. For live lessons and interactive class join us via https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Sing major arpeggios

🎹 HOW TO SING 🎤 ON PICTH 📋🎶 Season 1. Episode 4. SING MAJOR ARPEGGIOS🎷🎤 Arpeggios, like scales, are musical exercises. Instead of moving up and down from pitch to pitch, arpeggios go up and down in intervals. Practicing arpeggios will not only improve your pitch, but they will also enhance your ability to jump from one pitch to another pitch as you sing. ◆Play a major arpeggio on a piano or acoustic guitar. Basic arpeggios follow this pattern: 1, 3 (Major Third), 5 (Perfect Fifth), 8, 5 (Perfect Fifth) , 3 (Major Third), 1. Start with the C Major arpeggio. It follows this pattern: C (1), E (3, Major Third), G (5, Perfect Fifth), C (8), G (5, Perfect Fifth), E (3, Major Third), C (1). ◆Listen to each pitch and interval. As you hear the notes, visualize the pitches and intervals in your head. ◆Play the exercise and sing along. As you move up and down the arpeggio, strive to match and maintain each pitch. Pay particular attention to hitting each interval. ◆After mastering the C Major Arpeggio, work on another Major Arpeggio. Repeat the process. For live lessons and interactive class join us via https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Sing major scale

🎹 HOW TO SING 🎤 ON PICTH 📋🎶 Season 1. Episode 3. SING MAJOR SCALES🎷🎤 Scales are musical exercises that go up and down in a predetermined pattern. Major scales are the most predictable and familiar. Scales are extremely adaptable and personalized exercises. When you sing scales, you can focus on mastering a specific technique, such as vibrato, overcoming a certain problem, like pitchiness, or increasing your vocal range. ■Play a major scale on a piano or acoustic guitar. The C Major scale is an excellent place to start. The C Major scale follows this pattern: C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C, C, B, A, G, F, E, D, C. ■Listen to each pitch and visualize the note in your head. ■Play the exercise and sing along. As you move up and down the scale, focus on matching and maintaining each pitch. ■After mastering one major scale, move on to another major scale. Repeat the process. For live lessons and interactive class join us via https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Select a target note

🎹 HOW TO SING 🎤 ON PICTH 📋🎶 Season 1. Episode 2. SELECT A TARGET NOTE🎷🎤 A target note is the musical note that you wish to match in pitch. You can choose any note within your vocal range; you could start by trying to match pitch with the lowest "C" in your vocal range. As you move through the exercise, continue to pick random notes that fall within your vocal range and attempt to match their pitch. •Play the target note on the digital tuner, piano, or guitar. •Listen to the pitch carefully. Try to hear the note in your head. This ability to hear, or visualize, a note in your head is called auralizing. This skill is developed over time and through persistent practice. •Sing the target note. If you are using a digital tuner, look at the screen to see if you have perfectly matched the pitch, if you are flat, or if you are sharp. If you are off key, slide your pitch up or down until you perfectly match the pitch. •Once you have matched pitch, select a new target note and repeat the process. •It may take you awhile to find notes that are within your vocal range and you are comfortable singing. Don’t be afraid to experiment with notes in different octaves. For live lessons and interactive class join us via https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Do pitches on a digital tuner

🎹 HOW TO SING 🎤 ON PICTH 📋🎶 Season 1. Episode 1. DO PICTHES ON A DIGITAL TUNER🎷🎤 You can also match pitches on a digital piano, or guitar. The ability to hear, recognize, and then match a pitch with your voice is a fundamental ear training skill. While some people have a natural ear, others are “tone deaf.” If you are “tone deaf,” you develop this skill through consistent practice. •Find a digital tuner, piano, or acoustic guitar. Digital tuners are ideal for this exercise because the tool tells you if you are too sharp or too flat. If you don’t have access to any of these tools or instruments, there are several vocal match apps available for you to choose from. For live lessons and interactive class join us via https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Give it time

🎬 🎵 HOW TO TEACH A NEW SONG WITHOUT BORING YOUR CHOIR 🎶📓 🎶📋🖊 Season 1. Episode 7. GIVE IT TIME 📀🖋🎶 Accept that learning new music takes time and doesn’t all come together at once. Be careful not to overload your singers for example, with dynamics, breathing, diction and pitch directions all at the same time. Work on one aspect at a time, building up the song over rehearsals to the finished piece you want. Don’t be afraid to move on even when things aren’t perfect. For live lessons and interactive class click and join https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w THESE ARE MY TIPS FOR LEARNING NEW MUSIC. I'D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU ABOUT HOW YOU TACKLE NEW REPERTOIRE WITH YOUR CHOIR.

Be Reactive

🎬 🎵 HOW TO TEACH A NEW SONG WITHOUT BORING YOUR CHOIR 🎶📓 🎶📋🖊 Season 1. Episode 6. BE REACTIVE📀🖋🎶 If something needs tweeking, don’t be afraid to change it. Recently we rehearsed a part of a song acapella. The blend of the parts sounded so lovely that we decided to finish the song this way (taking out the accompaniment early). The choir were really behind the idea as they loved the acapella sound and were really pleased that I included this as part of the arrangement. For live lessons and interactive class click and join https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Ask questions

🎬 🎵 HOW TO TEACH A NEW SONG WITHOUT BORING YOUR CHOIR 🎶📓 🎶📋🖊 Season 1. Episode 5. ASK QUESTIONS 📀🖋🎶 Get your singers involved by asking them questions; don’t just give them all the answers straight off. Questions such as: what style is this piece? What is it about? What do you think about the blend of the parts? Do we need to vary the dynamics? This will get them thinking about the song and taking a more active role in understanding how the piece comes together and what can improve it, plus you will look super smart as their conductor as you have all the answers! For live lessons and interactive class click and join https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Look for patterns

🎬 🎵 HOW TO TEACH A NEW SONG WITHOUT BORING YOUR CHOIR 🎶📓 🎶📋🖊 Season 1. Episode 4. LOOK FOR PATTERNS 📀🖋🎶 Point out repetitions and similarities in the music and lyrics to your singers so that they feel less daunted by the amount of learning in a piece. Obviously, you don’t want to launch into lengthy lectures, but a few signposts here and there can really help. For live lessons and interactive class click and join https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

You don’t have to start at the top

🎬 🎵 HOW TO TEACH A NEW SONG WITHOUT BORING YOUR CHOIR 🎶 🎶📋🖊 Season 1. Episode 3. YOU DON’T HAVE TO START AT THE TOP 📀🖋🎶 Start by learning the chorus because it often involves everyone singing together. This also helps them to get a grasp of the central theme in the song and gives them satisfaction as the chorus is repeated so they start to feel like they’re getting somehwhere with the learning. For live lessons and interactive class click and join https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Keep everyone involved

🎬 🎵 HOW TO TEACH A NEW SONG WITHOUT BORING YOUR CHOIR 🎶📓 🎶📋🖊 Season 1. Episode 2. KEEP EVERYONE INVOLVED 📀🖋🎶 Don’t leave any of your sections sitting without anything to do for too long. By the very nature of learning several vocal parts, it’s inevitable that not everyone will be singing all the time, but if you leave people too long without anything to do, they will get bored and start chattering. Try including everyone in learning all the parts. After all, it does singers no harm to understand how the song is put together and what everyone else is singing. Get everyone trying each part, even if this requires them to sing up or down the octave. 📌 Another tip to prevent boredom is to ask singers to hum their parts quietly whilst you focus on a particular section’s part. This will give your singers context for the piece and an understanding of how their different parts fit together. For live lessons and interactive class click and join https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Learn early

🎬 🎵 HOW TO TEACH A NEW SONG WITHOUT BORING YOUR CHOIR 🎶📓 🎶📋🖊 Season 1. Episode 1. LEARN EARLY 📀🖋🎶 Try to keep the bulk of learning new material towards the beginning of the session. That way people will feel fresh, alert and eager to learn. Later in the rehearsal, I’ve found that it’s best to focus on existing repertoire, although if I teach a new song in a session I often run it again at the end just to see what people remember and to keep it fresh in their minds. For live lessons and interactive class click and join https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

How to teach a new song

🎬 🎵 HOW TO TEACH A NEW SONG WITHOUT BORING YOUR CHOIR 🎶📓 INTRODUCTION 🎶🖊📋📀 You’ve welcomed everyone to the rehearsal and done your warm-ups. Now its time, deep breath, to dive into learning a new song!. I’m always excited to teach my contemporary choir a new song and can’t wait to see their reaction to the music. In my choir, we learn by ear and the singers use lyric sheets which I sometimes provide for them. As I also have the benefit of a piano, I have rehearsal recordings of the parts available to help should I need them. I am always a little nervous as to whether they will like a new song but after three years of working with them I think I have a pretty good idea of what they enjoy, plus I often get their input on song choices which helps me to understand their musical preferences. Tackling new music is one of the most intense parts of being a choir leader. It requires lots of planning, learning and concentration. You become a salesperson of sorts, selling the idea of the music to your choir by teaching it to them in a way that is engaging and fun, yet concise and in keeping with what you want to achieve. Whilst all this is going on you have to think about conducting, bringing in the parts and keeping the choir under control. Wonderful episodes starts tomorrow, ensure you keep yourself connected. God bless you. For live lessons and interactive class https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Do exhalation exercises

🖋🎵 CONTROLLING YOUR BREATH BEFORE AND DURING SINGING🎹🎤 🎤 Season 1 Episode 5. DO EXHALATION EXERCISES 🎤 Exhalation exercises are important for holding steady notes; without them, your voice might waver when you sing. •Inhale deeply through your mouth, pushing the air deep into your abdomen.          •Instead of letting the air rush out at its own natural rate, keep your diaphragm engaged so you can control the rate of exhalation. •Take eight seconds to expel all the air from your chest. Once you’ve exhaled, contract your abdominal muscles to push any remaining air from your lungs.        ★One of the most important parts of improving our breathing is making sure we exhale completely. For live lessons and interactive class https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Practice holding your breath

🖋🎵 CONTROLLING YOUR BREATH BEFORE AND DURING SINGING🎹🎤 🎤 Season 1 Episode 4. PRACTICE HOLDING YOUR BREATH IN YOUR BODY 🎤 After inhaling deeply and pulling the air down into your body, try controlling how long you can keep the air in your body without growing uncomfortable. Try to increase the length of time. > Inhale slowly and deeply through your nose, making sure to draw your breath down into your abdomen like in the previous exercise.Try to hold it for a count of seven, then exhale.Repeat several times. >Over time, try to increase the length of time you can hold your breath comfortably.   For live lessons and interactive class https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Pull your breath

🖋🎵 CONTROLLING YOUR BREATH BEFORE AND DURING SINGING🎹🎤 🎤 Season 1 Episode 3. PULL YOUR BREATH DOWN INTO YOUR BODY🎤    Practice pulling your breath down into your body. Many people take very shallow breaths that will not help you breathe, so you need to learn how to breathe in a way that makes best use of your lung capabilities. Inhale slowly and deeply, feeling the air move downward through your mouth and throat and into your body. Imagine that the air is very heavy.          Visualize pushing it all the way down below your belly button before letting yourself exhale.  As you go through repetitions, inhale more quickly. Continue to imagine the air being heavy and pushing it down into your stomach. ◆Feel how your abdomen and lower back expand. ◆Place one hand on your chest, and the other on your stomach. When you inhale, make sure the hand on your stomach moves more than the one on your chest ,you should be pulling air down deep into your body, not shallowly into your chest.     For live lessons and interactive class https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Be aware of your breathing

🖋🎵 CONTROLLING YOUR BREATH BEFORE AND DURING SINGING🎹🎤 🎤 Season 1 Episode 2. BE AWARE OF YOUR BREATHING🎤 To improve your breath control, you need to be completely in tune with the entrance and exit of air from your body. Find a quiet, distraction-free environment where you can sit for a few minutes every day and just focus on how inhaling and exhaling feels in your body.      For live lessons and interactive class https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Understanding how breathing works

🖋🎵 CONTROLLING YOUR BREATH BEFORE AND DURING SINGING🎹🎤 🎤 Season 1 Episode 1. UNDERSTANDING HOW BREATHING WORKS 🎤 The most important muscle to be aware of is your diaphragm, a dome-shaped muscle that stretches across the bottom of the rib cage. Contracting the diaphragm (inhaling) pushes down on the stomach and intestines to make room for air, and lowers air pressure in your chest, allowing you to take air into your lungs. To exhale, you can simply relax your diaphragm, which allows the air to leave your chest cavity at a natural rate, or you keep your diaphragm engaged against the stomach and intestines to control the rate of exhalation. The latter is very important for singing.      For live lessons and interactive class https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w