Anyone Can Learn to Sing, Including You

Anyone can learn to sing, including you, but only if you’re willing to put in your practice time. Even then, how you practice will be just as important. After you learn pitch matching, there’ll be several areas you’ll need to work on with the help of the sing-along soundtracks.

Ear Training:

First, you need to learn how to harmonize:

• Harmonize with Sing-Along Songs
• Ear Training Exercises for Harmonizing
• Singing Major and Minor Harmonies in Tune

Second, these three tuning cues – beating, buzz, and fusion – will help you to tune up when harmonizing. If you can’t sing in tune, you won’t sound good:

• Beating
• Buzz
• Fusion

Third, learning how to listen to vocal nuances will allow you to learn to sing expressively:

• Sing in Tune Like a Rock Star

Vibrato:

Singing with vibrato is great if you’re a lead vocalist. However, to learn how to sing a cappella quality harmonies, you need to practice harmonizing without vibrato:

• Vibrato

Tone Production:

If you want to sound good, you need to know how to produce a good tone. This starts with your vowels:

• Singing Schwa Vowels
• Singing Tongue Vowels
• Singing Lips Vowels

Likewise, you’ll need to sing with a high but relaxed soft pallet if you want to produced good vowels:

• Soft Palate

Plus, the singing into the mask exercise adds another important component to your ability to control your tone:

• Singing into the Mask

Singing With Power:

Want to sing with power? You’ll need to sing with a supported tone:

• Singing With Power

Breath Phrasing:

Make sure you have enough breath to maintain your pitch. Being able to do this depends on when you breathe within the song’s phrases:

• Breathing and Phrase Structure