Female Voice Training for Sharp & Flat

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Part of the video series: Female Voice Training Exercises

Summary: Do you sing too sharp or too flat? Is your tuning way off? Proper tuning doesn't come naturally to all of us. In this video you can learn how to sing in tune, not too sharp, not too flat.

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By Erica Lane
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Erica Lane es una cantante y maestra de música; se graduó Cum Laude de Texas Tech University en Lubbock, Texas, con un título de Licenciatura en Música. Ella estudió ópera con la...read more

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moo99 said

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on 8/2/2008 Erica, from this lesson I think I can tell you are a very good teacher. I am glad you are posting here on expert village and that I found your video. Instead of just talking, you show what you are doing, how to do it wrong, how to do it right, and you even add in some positive encouragement. I have read books on singing, other websites and gotten tips from other singers, but they are always really vague and don't tell me anything. Instead of being all about talk, you add in practice. I hope all of your lessons are as helpful as this one is. I have a big problem with this, and you make me feel like I can conquer it. Thanks very much.

jackenin said

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on 8/2/2008 (continued from the last comment) So, how do we train this skill? Actually I don't think it's a skill. It's almost instinct. Through our ordinary daily life, we follow the others singing, and in this process we feel the correct pitch or tune. After a lot of such experience, we acquire the ability to imitate correctly. So, if a person can't match a pitch, I strongly recommend that he give up singing. Just kidding. What I really recommend is that he trains himself by immitating others singing. I can assert that no matter how retarded his musical sense is, he can get the skill of matching pitch and tuning.

happy22 said

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on 8/2/2008 Hi Erica, I first watched all your videos on female voice training in September last year, but I haven't been able to follow through on my learning. I watch your lessons weekly now, because I've learned a lot from your examples of bad singing and demos of proper singing. I train people to speak well, and I would love to be able to help others learn to sing well too. I like you a lot.

ladyamythist said

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on 8/2/2008 I hope you read this. I should send you money. You are actually teaching it. The other guy just talks about it, so I don't watch his videos now. I have had a problem with tune. Now I know what to do. I cannot thank you enough. I mean this sincerely. I love doing this for my own pleasure, and it's a fun thing to learn.

jackenin said

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on 8/2/2008 Erica, after all these lessons I really want to say you are an excellent teacher. But I have a different opinion here. I don't think the "siren method" really works, even in "matching pitch" -- demonstrated in the previous lesson. From my experience, if a person can't find a correct pitch or tune, he can never find it by "siren". Maybe his "siren" includes the right pitch, he still can't pick it out because he can't recognize it [if he can, he should've matched the pitch].

Video Transcript

" Hello I am Erica Lane and I am with Expert Village and I am talking about how to train the female voice. I want going to talk about tuning now I am going to illustrate singing too sharp… You can tell that was not a smooth sounding and it was not good tuning, the reason is because I was tending to sing towards the top of the pitch instead of centralizing the pitch same thing happens when you sing too flat… I was almost holding the pitch but I was a little too low and it was obvious that that is not good singing. I was singing too flat. So use your ear find the center of the pitch… and when you find the center of the pitch and ear has told to you that you matched it then go on to the next note and then the next note… and that is what it takes do it again and again and again till you can find it immediately… It takes practice and it takes consistency and determination. Anybody can do this if they just work hard enough. "