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hey guys I'm Tara with Tara Simon
studios and this is my lovely coach
Shari today we are coming at you with a
question that many of you have asked us
we want to address the issue of how to
stop singing flat when trying to hit
notes and it doesn't necessarily have to
be high notes sometimes we're just off
we're just both pitch and the problem
with being off pitch especially for
those of you who sing and those students
who come in to us that are newer or
students who've been trying to sing for
a long time who struggle with pitch
recognition is that when you get off
it's really hard to find your way back
especially if you're really off like a
different key off okay so we're going to
talk about that today and how to get
ourselves back on track in my way of
pitch so we're gonna give an example of
Beyonce's halo we want to give you guys
applicable advice meaning like not just
in an exercise but also sometimes in the
context of songs and so this particular
question I think is best explained in
the context of a song so we're gonna do
a song for you today and I'm just gonna
play so that you guys know the integrity
of the key I'm gonna play some chords
just plunked out on the piano for this
song and shermaine he's gonna sing she's
first gonna give you an example of what
flatness sounds like throughout the
melodic line and you're gonna hear how
it clashes with the piano
hopefully you hear it now if you're
watching this and you don't hear how it
clashes with the piano I want you to
email me because you need some serious
peer training and we can help you with
that but if you don't hear your life
you're thinking oh I think she sounds
pretty good in this first one um
call us we can help you okay or call
someone do the eight-week course thanks
for not harder click in the description
box do something because you definitely
can't progress as a singer if you can't
hear pitch properly okay that's like
that's like singing 101 alright so we're
just gonna go for it this is low
and again this is an attempt in an
improper poor attempt and singing this
song on
my coach or me okay by the way promises
are made because it's hard enough to do
things well but it's really hard once
you know how to do things well to then
revert back to doing things poorly so
thank you so much for being such a good
sport
we're so appreciate her so that you guys
don't have to hear me all time
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singing Wow
I know she did such a good job with that
because it was really painful so
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hopefully you could hear that that was
wrong and not cute at all
and one point she legit went into a
whole other Kia it wasn't even flaw team
or just a modulation of ki and so how do
we fix that all right so a lot of you
guys are singing flat-out there some of
you realize it you don't know how to fix
it some of you don't realize it again
we're talking today more to the person
who can hear it at least sometimes knows
it but doesn't quite know how to get
over that hump of pitch pitch
imperfection in to pitch perfection okay
first of all thank you it has a lot to
do with first listening to the music
that you're singing you've got you've
got both listen to your sound that's
coming out of your mouth and the music
at the same time not just the chords but
also the tempo because a lot of times
when we get off in tempo we get
flustered and then everything starts to
fall downhill we lose recognition of
pitch and where we are in life and
everywhere it's just it's it's bad all
around so when we are listening to the
song we gotta listen first to the track
or the band whatever is accompanying you
or yourself whether you're playing for
yourself or not
making sure that you can hear the chords
in the tempo and that you're centered in
that first once you open your mouth to
sing it's very important that you're
opening your mouth to sing instead of
just like you saw Charmaine she's
everywhere I'm looking down it was all
like Nikki right so this singer stance
right shoulders back chest out head
erect instead of a mess right and then
you're more invited
to open your mouth and sing out instead
of up okay that's the best really the
first thing so let's just address that
first let's address the posture of how
she's singing see if it helps and if
there's more work to be done after that
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okay that was way way better okay just
in doing that now stance has a lot to do
with it - if that fixes it for you great
if it doesn't fix it for you there's a
couple other things that we can try
alright
so sometimes and this is this is a
relatively high song based Beyonce this
is the original key okay
Bravo for me and when you go to hit
these notes it's very important to be
making sure the sound is coming from the
bottom up okay that's another deal with
the throat enos like you know it's not
coming from the bottom up because this
is the only thing that's moving and
working right but when you're centered
and your stance is fine then your body's
inviting you to also then engage from
where it's supposed to engage from which
is your core okay so you want the breath
to go down into your belly button and
you want your core to engage to show me
put your hands right here and remind
your abs by pressing against them to
engage as you say let's see if we can
get any more volume and power out of
what she already did and so if you're
still pitchy before you try this see if
engaging your abs while correcting your
stamps stands that coupled effect helps
your pitch raise up higher if it doesn't
have one more trick for you here we go
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nice nice I heard a little more style
especially if the end on that one okay
did that feel more relaxed for you yes
yes okay so we've got a better stance
we've got a more relaxed throat more
relaxed larynx by engaging our ABS okay
now if you're still a little pitchy if
you're still like ah that helped a lot
but there's still some tension there's
still some to my sound I'm almost there
but not quite okay
then couple the stance the support and
more space in your mouth so there's some
places that charmagne can still
capitalize on space especially notes
like hello hello all the way down and
everyone I'm Lu Kim na na that now don't
go to the W at the end just keep it as
an app and just tightly little slightly
with with your lips go to the W not your
whole mouth I'm surrounded by young rays
taking out the are for the your I'm
surrounded by embrace so let's just
write you that little chunk everywhere
I'm looking now I'm surrounded by on
race and then maybe I can feel your head
oh let's do those three lines okay
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yeah hello just a little more open but
that's not a high note right so because
it's not so high it's much more
forgiving but the the top notes where
she opened even more was so lovely so
much nicer to hear that's awesome so
that should help you guys immensely in
fact it should really fix your pitch
issues now if you're still saying to me
in the comments I'm still pitchy then
it's probably a tapped end of your range
issue meaning like that's you're singing
a note that's higher than what your
ranged capability its current state
allows it to be you can also work on
range expansion but that's a whole other
can of worms that we're not dedicating
to this particular video we will
definitely in later videos and off
course in the eight-week course think
smarter not harder that's available in
the description box below we deal
heavily with range expansion power vocal
stamina all of that stuff in detail and
in great concentration in the eight-week
course so this is teaching you how to
sing without being flat from coach
Charmaine and me thanks so much for
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guys
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