i watched her fingers play and just regurgitated that. when she died and i got a new teacher the new teacher made me play something before he would show me. i was busted and my parents were so mad. so i convinced them to let me quit and i started playing drums.
now i can play those and guitar quite well and still don't know how to read music.
I can whistle the intro to GnR's Patience with the best of them.
That's pretty much all I got.
Has anyone had formal vocal training? I'm kinda curious as to whether it can help someone that isn't a competent singer stay on key, or if it is aimed more at making the good singer become a more accomplished vocalist. What ages get the most benefit?
Has anyone had formal vocal training? I'm kinda curious as to whether it can help someone that isn't a competent singer stay on key, or if it is aimed more at making the good singer become a more accomplished vocalist. What ages get the most benefit?
Depends on the issue. If it's a breathing support issue, then yes, it can be taught.Has anyone had formal vocal training? I'm kinda curious as to whether it can help someone that isn't a competent singer stay on key, or if it is aimed more at making the good singer become a more accomplished vocalist. What ages get the most benefit?
Depends on the issue. If it's a breathing support issue, then yes, it can be taught.
If it's just that you can't hear pitch well, nothing I'm aware of can be done about that.
I was in an audition-only choir in high school with a dedicated director. He worked with us individually on his own time, teaching breathing technique, how to produce volume without strain, how to stretch our range.
For group warmups we typically did intervals (do-mi-re-fa-mi-so, then do-fa-re-so-mi-la, etc) without accompaniment, and then he would have each section sustain a note in a chord, then say sopranos, drop a third...hold...tenors, up a fourth...hold...basses, down a fifth...etc...all sustained sound so that you could hear the newly formed chords. You'd better believe that trained our ears for blend and pitch!
I think you can help singers learn to stay on key with those types of drills...but if a person has a tin ear, ain't no amount of practice going to help that.
Personal opinion...piano lessons really help younger kids learn to read music and learn to hear if something is in or out of tune...by extension, that should help them to hear when they themselves are off-key. However, I don't know if private voice lessons are generally useful for most people before they hit puberty. I'd say high school & college are the best times to fine tune a "vocal instrument". But I'm no expert!!!
Kinda what I was thinking. I've often wondered if not being able to find the right key is something you can't correct or if it's based on someone not having an interest in improving. I suppose it's probably both and it just depends on the person. It would be rough having a love for music and not being able to carry a note.
I feel sorry for tone deaf folks- were you discouraged from singing at a young age? I thank my parents regularly for always having the radio blasting when I was a child.
I have good pitch and have always loved to sing. I was just wondering if anyone ever knew of a person that couldn't find the right key for most of their life and had that changed through vocal lessons. It just seems like people get content with not feeling like they can sing. I just didn't know if something like that was truly correctable.
Mini rant: I have a lot of audio-related pet peeves, but I absolutely can't stand someone that intentionally sings off-key and thinks it's funny. I've heard/seen it on a lot of shows and movies over the years and I just don't get it when people laugh at it......and I laugh at a lotta dumb ****
Sometimes it's a plot device...Cameron Diaz singing Karaoke in "My Best Friend's Wedding", for example. But I'm with you...it seriously hurts my ears when people or instruments are off-key. And as discussed in a previous thread...I CANNOT clap in time with the music if the people around me are off the beat. The ISU fight song is one of the most obnoxious for that...it's like the people clapping are racing with the pep-band. AARRGGHH!!!
I have a pretty fine-tuned sense of pitch and it really bothers me as well. My family still watches American Idol and they'll hear someone and think they're great and I'm like can you not hear that she's off-pitch (like the girl last night who sang sharp the whole song.) It's like nails on a chalkboard.it seriously hurts my ears when people or instruments are off-key.