How can singers with pitch problems improve their accuracy?

The underlying cause of pitch problems usually lies with the breath. Lack of breath support and the energy necessary to "hit the note" could result in notes landing flat. If your problem is that you sing sharp, or over the pitch you are aiming for, it could be because of too much air passing through your cords. My first recommendation, is to get with a good voice teacher for regular training. This will give you the ongoing professional support that you need. Next, I would recommend "humming" your music, in slow motion, paying close attention to hitting the centre of each pitch. You will become more aware of where you need to adjust breath flow. Good luck!

I would also add a yoga practice. A lot of pitch problems as the article said are tension related. Hatha yoga helps the client get to know their area of tension better and release it. When I started out singing I was also becoming a Yogi. After my yoga practices, my voice was always warmer, more open, and on the pitch . THis is the reason I include Yoga Therapy in my Voice Mentoring.

I'm a trained speech therapist and vocal coach who embarked on my music journey in my adult life. Here are my thoughts. You need to, indeed, identify the nature of the issue. First of all, can the student hear that they are off? If they can, then you simply need to practice certain exercises. If the student can't hear, then you need to see in what conditions. Many times, in both cases, using visual cues, harmonising to notes and listening to different instruments playing the melody etc. will greatly improve the notion of pitch. We are often perturbed by speaker information. Training vowels on a fixed pitch to identify that speaker frequency change is also very effective. I could go on. Feel free to reach out.

I would separate breath from support - in my experience flat notes are lack of muscular engagement and sharp notes tend to have over engaged muscles.

An 8-piece band that I'm in purchased an in-ear-monitor system. We found that the singing improved immediately because we weren't forcing our voices to be heard over the other instruments, thus keeping in pitch much better! Another choice is to play the instruments more quietly, but that's usually not in the cards.

Not just for singers, but also for instrumentalists, it is so important to listen carefully. And practice. Pitching also requires an understanding of how intervals feel, how keys and scales vary in different modes. I guess pitch is also impacted for voices and wind instruments particularly by overblowing. So you need to practice singing softly and loudly - different dynamics require different approaches to tuning. But listening will tell you.

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I have always pushed the limits of styles , diversity and taken risks in experimentation , nowadays I have edited down to pursue more soulful rock blues if working in conjunction with musicians when entirely solo more diversity involving more electronic upbeat songs with backing tracks is required , it is harder without help as you have to be open to sing many styles and have more material in hand to randomly adhere to a typical day used to be 11 hour rehearsals now two hours a week is sufficient