Bad Pitch Is Not Your Problem! Why You're Not Singing In Tune

No one likes to sing off key, but is trying to directly address your problems with pitch the solution?

[giannis_tar]

This is very important. I remember when I would go slightly flat on high notes because of tension and poor vowel tuning my teachers would mash the key on the piano and make a cringe-like expression in order to prompt me to correct the pitch. This was extremely damaging to my moral. I thought I was tone deaf (when we are slightly flat due to poor vowel tuning/tension we often can't hear it for some reason).IT'S NOT AN AUDITORY ISSUE YOU CLUELESS WANNABE VOICE TEACHERS, IT'S A TECHNICAL ONE.

[wooyulan]

Fantastic tongue trill Karyn!!!
Thanks for this informative and thoughtful video.
Cheers, Lin.

[mikeythefirst]

This is wonderful. It just proves exactly what I told my friend 3 years ago when she told me to start working on pitch: "I can't work on pitch yet because I'm not comfortable with hitting notes in general. I'm gonna focus on technique first until it's easier for me to sing." Unfortunately, my teacher back then thought otherwise, pushing me to hit an F4 on the piano even though I was practically shouting at a C4, then complaining about how flat I was. After I learned how to blend head and chest voice correctly two months ago, 60-70% of my pitch issues went away. These days it's mostly about me accidentally singing the wrong note or just not having studied the song properly yet.

[dundrumleith]

As always, very well said, very well put. Thanks for your work.

[Andrewmahan]

I’m so thankful for your wisdom in this topic!

[inhocsigno]

Thank you, good insight.
Hope your summer is cooler than mine.

[s.ocurlschristieokosun]

I really love your vidoes!!! You can't imagine how you've helped me. GOD BLESS YOU

[elitezenkai]

For me it's just a lack of ear training. I wish more teachers on youtube covered that aspect rather than just mechanical issues :/

[jrgnsscmn]

Thank you Karen for your insightful video's. I'm still having problems matching the shape of my throat to the pitch and vowel type in which I sing. Should the epiglottis always be gently lifted? Another teacher said that it should. Whenever I work on a recording I seem to struggle to unify all my singing into one identifyable characteristic sound... Any advice?

[dexterfawcett]

I just started singing and got told my voice nice but my pitch off by a singer I know and now I'm determined and focused on that and I been doubting my self to sing but I have a lot of keep going and try my best motivation I can here pitches when playing a piano or guitar and I know if I'm even flat a bit I'm proper confused trying to listen to get the low notes and high notes correct in the song I cant even express my self and enjoy while singing anymore but like I say I'm very deterred to practice I have now got a teacher only had a first session he were trying to get me to learn half notes instead of dropping or going up a whole note and when I sing I'm always sharp in every key when in my comfortable speaking relaxed voice but when I try lower my voice to be on exct major keys it'im not relaxed then

[Pvp_clues]

Do you have any videos that have exercises for this?

[kenxinhxc]

i CAN PLAY GUITAR BUT MYVOICE IS OUT OF TUNE ITS VERY FRUSTATING I Cant sinG

[rizlovedaydream]

Thank you so much Mam
Is awesome motivation lines.
I wish you are my singing teacher because I really need teacher like you
I do a lot of exercise but my voice isn't good😭😭😭
Everyone say that singing is not you're things you're better is you left the singing but I can't cause I love singing and playing guitar🎤🎸
Mam could you please check my voice and sher your opinion what I'm doing wrong :( so my voice isn't good😭.

[laurenmareemusic]

Great video! I feel like I have this problem a lot with pitch intonation even after 3 years of lessons but I have a feeling it has more to do with my posture and being tense or incorrect placement rather then being tone deaf cause I can hit the pitch accuracy most of the time when all is aligned correctly and can mimic the note that is being played . I was wondering if you give me a little bit of feedback on one of my singing videos on my YouTube on my pitch as I’m very self conscious of it and am trying to improve love to hear what you think it mean so much to me.

[arcticfox]

I can sing Rosinni and Mozart runs on pitch, but when switch to singing contemporary music I tend to be off pitch... so ... is the root cause flexibility? Do we need to completely retrain ourselves to sing pop music?

[oaklaz]

is it normal when in order to get good cord closure and get rid of breathiness I tend to really pack up my lips, I don't know how to explain this, but I'm just sort of bringing every part of my mouth together, making it smaller than it actually is and leaving a tiny gap so that, regardless of how good my tone sounds that way, at least I can sing high notes more freely and I don't feel like I have to go beyond my abilities to get to a certain pitch. I've seen some vocal coaches saying that your mouth has to be wide open, but for me, that techique only feels unnatural to me