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Secret To Singing In Tune

Article Category: Education

Author Name: Michael Graves

This tip can get you singing in tune or get you singing a lot more in tune. There are many other tools that can assist in singing in tune and singing effectively, but underlying all is one little known mind trick. And this trick is called Conceptual Placement.

Singing in tune is merely the act of placing a note vocally in the correct position in regard to the notes around it and the song as a whole. I know that can seem a bit far fetched for someone who can't sing in tune. However that doesn't make it any less accurate. It would, however, help to explain that statement and show the technique to get over the problem introduced.

In order for a note to be a note as we know it, it needs to be in a song. Otherwise it is simply a sound. Not until that sound it compared with other sounds in the context of a song is it regarded a note. You can say the word 'no', but that doesn't render it a note. If someone asks you if you want to leap off a cliff, unless you are donning a parachute or have a glider attached to your back, you're answer should be 'no'. You are not singing a song at that point.

Now, think of a song with the word 'no' in it. There are sooooo many samples of this available. I'm not planning to give you any hints because it is crucial that you remember one yourself. So go on and recall a song that has the word 'no' in it.

Now, sing that song in your head.

As you most likely 'heard', there are other words all around 'no' and consequently other notes. Each of those notes is a note because there are other notes about it. Mixed they constitute a song. Each notes relationship to the notes around it make it a note. I go into this in more detail in Singing From Scratch, but you can see the song as an entire family and the notes the individual members. Any note that is presented into that song that isn't a relative to the rest of the notes, does not belong and is viewed as a bad note. That is the note that is out of tune.

So how do we manage to keep the bad notes out and keep the good notes in? That's where Conceptual Placement becomes useful. I recently did a post on the science of conceptualization and The Conceptual Singing Method �. Conceptualization is superior to conscious action. We think before we act, if we are acting consciously. Plain and simple demonstrable fact.

Before you begin your day, you have a picture in your mind of what you are going to do. Before you run your errands, you envision them first. In fact, it's tough for some people to get in their car and begin driving for no reason at all and without any destination at all in mind. Heck walking out the door for no reason is hard. Try it sometime and see. We so crave a concept, that we will make up a reason. But that is a different subject. The point is, we get a picture in our mind or concept before we perform something.

Based upon that science, the better the concept of how to sing you have, the better you will be at singing. So, the better your are at conceptualizing singing in tune the better you will be at it. And a simple trick that can help build the ability to conceptualize singing in tune is Conceptual Placement.

Remember as a kid watching cartoons and seeing the character go up and down stairs or up and down a ladder? behind the scenes there was generally an instrument, like a xylophone, playing a bunch of notes going up and down with the movement of the character. I actually have a player on my website in this article that plays the sound. But you get the idea.

As the notes goes up and down each has a place relative to the notes before or after (around) it. The notes around it are relatively higher or lower and each note is in a specific place either higher or lower than the notes around it.

The secret is to put the notes in the proper position that make them 'in tune' with the other notes. If they are not in place, they don't belong and are 'out of tune'.

So they need to placed, or when it comes to singing, sung in the proper place relatively higher or lower than the notes around it. And as we have determined before, we want to get the concept mentally of where to properly place the notes vocally in order to actually sing the placement of the notes properly out loud.

Put simply, we have to be able to think where the notes are needing to go before we can sing where the notes should go to be in tune.

So let's get that mental trick or tool set up for you so you can use it to help with your conceptual placement.

First you ought to view an image of a ladder to start practicing. Whenever that becomes too easy, look away or close your eyes and visualize the ladder mentally. But first we should be looking at that picture.

Then, we are going to sing a song and visualize where the notes should go on the ladder, either higher or lower on each rung, relative to the other notes.

To help this, use the song Row Row Row Your Boat. Begin the song mentally at the bottom of the ladder. Or, the note and the first 'Row' would start at the bottom rung of your ladder. Mentally place the word 'Row' there. Then the next word, which is 'Row', and considering that we didn't go up or down, and as it is the same note, it also is put on the same rung, in addition to the third note/word 'Row. As a matter of fact, the next word which would be on a different rung is 'Your', and it is one rung above the 'Row's'.

Continue in the manner, mentally positioning the notes on the rungs of the ladder till you can effortlessly do this. Once you can easily 'see' the notes of the song on the ladder while you sing it, then lose the training wheels and envision the ladder in your mind, or any ladder for that matter, and do the whole thing mentally. Do this until you are completely confident that you can sing the song and mentally put the notes on the ladder easily. Then and only then, switch to a different song, then another, and another, and so on.

In a short time you will be doing this naturally. You will find that you are positioning the notes properly in tune and relative to the other notes surrounding it in the song. In other words, you will be singing in tune.

You are now properly on your way to mastering Conceptual Placement.

The above trick or exercise is actually part of one of 61 drills in Singing From Scratch.

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