Follow these 7 steps BEFORE you pick a song...
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2024
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Choosing a song that actually fits your voice is one of the most important skills you can have as a singer
Not only can you use this info to help you pick out cover songs that fit your voice, or maybe help you if you’re in a karaoke crisis
But it can even help you WRITE songs that better fit your voice
If you’re a songwriter then you’ll know that it totally sucks to write a song that sounds amazing, but then you have to record it just to realize that you can’t sing some of the notes
My very first step in choosing a song that fits your voice is probably the most controversial, but here goes:
1. Choose a song that matches your gender
2. Choose a song in your style
3. Find your vocal range
4. Find your tessitura--know where your voice sounds good
5. Find the range of the song
6. Look at the music for any trouble spots
7. Choose a song you’re passionate about
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but as a bass i still want to sing "let it go"
I hope you get what you want, Simon
@@ramseyvoicestudio love that reply!!
You can do it! Just might have to adjust the key
Yasss hit those high notes
Take lessons from Matt
Wow Thanks! Brilliant I am listening very closely, I thought at 61 I am to old to learn to sing, but with your videos, I believe I actually can.
I have a hard time with not song shopping outside your gender, but I think that has more to do with my range being on the low end for female presenting vocalists. Most of the time E3 is comfortably in my bottom end, and I'm way more comfortable singing on the lower end of my register. So, it's VASTLY easier for me to find male presenting vocalists in that range 😅
I usually just change the key to make it fit to me
Same. Trying to do when the partys over.
That doesn't work for a song that has a total range that's bigger than your vocal range.
hello everyone, thanks for your comments, if you are musically inclined, changing the key can work a lot of the time
@@JonNewquist B9
@@ramseyvoicestudio I have been singing (trying) for about a year and a half. I try to change the key. Takes time. I sound bad anyway, but changing it makes my voice at least a little bit bearable
I’m 52 yrs old since I love singing, thank you for sharing and teaching us your techniques.
I'm 76 and I just started singing 8 months ago. So far, the only song I found that fits my voice is "The Ballad of Ira Hayes". Is there hope?
Anyways thank you so much for all of your videos, I find them really helpful and I really appreciate all your work. cheers
You can sing any song in the original music even, but you gotta find your melodies and key within that original music that fit. I wouldn't go too high or higher than my comfortable range when I sing Mariah -- wouldn't go crazy in the latter fourth and fifth octave that's for sure. My tessitura is mostly in the third octave. I sing some male songs just fine as long as I avoid imitating the low notes (usually few) that I cannot afford to reach. I can sing "I Write Sins..." comfortably without hurting, but the lower notes aren't going to be as resonant as a male could sing.
sounds like you're doing well
Very helpful tutorial I've learned a lot today thank you so much😊❤️
Awesome explanation. Many thanks.
Thanks for the 7 steps.they are really helpful to me especially the last one" passion".
Yaayy!. We love you Coach
thanks for being here
I NEEDED THIS SO BAD
glad it helped
Woow your tutorial is very helpful.
I think I've learnt a lot.
Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Good tutoring sir! Well done.
Many thanks!
Thx for the contents! I found key and pitch can easily be changed but switching colour is really hard. Cannot hit some songs in the same way as the original, even pitch is right the feel just doesn't seem right.
Started singing again after years of stopping after a tonsillectomy. Practicing with Savage Garden I knew I loved you!
Wonderful video thank-you, even though I am a woman I really want to sing Bridge Over Troubled Water because I aim to be the person noted in that song. Have to learn some things still to sing well but I want to and do learn from what you teach us.
great goal
this is what I need
excellent
Thank you.
I cant find any other way to write to you lol. I came to you bc I fell in love with piano. I just started lessons from an amazing teacher online. And I got so excited I wanted to learn a song that touched my Dad in church when he accepted Christ. It's called Run to the Father. His birthday is literally weeks away in April. So I dont know if I will get the song perfectly by then haha probably not. BUT! latley I've been singing the song more and more. And thought, hey even tho I dont have a voice, maybe I can sing while I play. That's hard to do on it's own. But singing GOOD and playing piano? Even harder oi.... well I started youtubing voice exercise videos and came across alot of yours. It's been maybe 4 days since I started some and I FEEL better when I sing. Again I dont have a good voice, I have a deviated septum , I am always nasally when I speak, always congested and inflamed in my sinuses and I always have flem ( tmi) in my throat and always have to cough an sneeze ( trust me I wont know how I really can sound and I'll never sing my true best unless I get surgery which I cant afford) but I still feel better with some of your videos. Suprised me. Everytime I think it will sound better bc i feel better lol it still isnt sounding how i am hearing it sound in the shower haha. Sounds better to me in the shower. It is however getting better than it was. I wish I could get singing lessons but atm since I spent so much on the piano bundle lol... I'll have to do youtube. Curious if you have any suggestions since it's only weeks away lol. Noone can learn to sing in weeks I know. But anything helps! So figured I'd ask. >
This answers my big question. Which songs for me. Thank you. God blesd you
Great video! Thanks to this I've been taking more seriously the method of choosing songs and I've recently found tons of songs that fit my voice perfectly and I love to sing. I especially wonder about the vocal range/tessitura thing. Do all the songs I sing have to have at least one or two notes that fall out my tessitura? Because I find it really harsh to hit notes out of my tessitura while singing. For example, I tried to sing Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheeran, which sits good for my vocal range until the chorus hits, and there's that A4 note that is quite high for me and I have to strain in order to reach it. It sounds like Ed Sheeran strains it too, but when I strain it, it damages my voice. How can I be able to sing out of my tessitura with more ease?
I like to sing some songs by male artists, but I usually just raise them an octave since I don't have a good low range. Then its fun to sing along to the original to hear the difference, or with a guy singing it the "regular" way.
Same with me.
Hi! I appreciate your hardwork on making us better! Can u plz tell me which genre song should i sing if my voice is not very broad or thin(I'm a girl) Plz tell me it will help me in my audition.
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@@ramseyvoicestudio THANKS 💗
I can sing almost all of my favorite songs 😊
My range is c3 to c6, and my tessatura is e3 to a5
4:00 imagine straining a b2 or d6 ,for me that can be really stupid so I have to do an octave lower/higher
coach ramsey can u give some advices ( how can i make my own daily program for practicing pls)
here's a great lesson on basic singing:
ramseyvoice.com/how-to-sing/
@@ramseyvoicestudio thx sir
The song I picked is lucky people by waterparks and honestly any song by them or panic at the disco or 21 pilots
I (f,29) love to sing 'Heute hier, morgen dort' from Hannes Wader and i think it sounds ok
I‘m a woman, but I found out that songs by Culture Club are very comfortable to sing for me. Am I a tenor like Boy George? 😁
Same. I think I'm an alto with poor vocal range, so I often feel comfortable with male singers. 🙄
Same here but u can push yourself to go higher abit to Alto cos alto is in the middle
you wouldn't be a tenor @Meissoun, but you might be a contralto which has the same range but for females
Not sure if it's good or not but i used the vocal range finder that you have available and it said i have 2 octaves Bb3 to C # 6 not sure exactly what that means I'm guessing bass?
I'm going to keep learning and hopefully i can hit 3 octaves that's my goal then eventually i want to do karaoke once i feel comfortable enough
I sing the songs I wanna sing when I have tonsilitis. in between coughs....
My voice like...drops to B2 (I'm a low mezzo I think ? or a high contralto) so I can sing many songs I wouldn't be able to sing normally without changing the key
Where are you located if you don’t mind me asking? I doubt you’re in Florida, 🤦🏾♂️ I wanna get some in person vocal private lessons😮💨
I'm a boy but since my voice isn't breaking for a few months, I sing mostly soprano or mezzo repertoire, like Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato (their songs are the most comfortable for me because they sit mostly in the lower fifth octave) or Adele. Do y'all think it's safe for me to be singing Demi and Ari's songs in the original key if I don't feel much discomfort singing that high or should I gradually lower it as the months pass?
got it, that was quite a while ago
I love my redeemer lives by: Nicole Mullen... She sings it in G. I'm comfortable in D
nice
I loooooove that song!!
I saw the image of Adele on SNL, with the words to Hello on the bottom, and it made me think of Alicia Keys on Jimmy Fallon singing the alphabet in the tune of Hello, and imitating her.
How to start🙂 learn pitch and rhythm .. What is keys,scales and how to sing with piano
Great tips, although I don’t totally agree with the gender thing. I am a messo soprano I think, or maybe alto (my range seem to differ everytime I take these tests), and Im very comfortable with singing songs from certain bands, like f.ex The Beatles, Coldplay, Goo Goo Dolls. (Coldplay do have some pretty high notes towards the ends of songs, but its usually fine)
Female power ballads are really not my thing, they demand a stronger voice on the higher notes. Plus I don’t really like to listen to those songs either. If it’s just a ballad I often feel theres parts that goes outside of my range. Tricky. How do I find the right female voice?
do you mean tone?
Absolutely agree--I'm also a mezzo soprano who sings along comfortably with tenors. For example, one day I was listening to a retro '80s playlist, and realised that whlie singing RIGHT smack dab in my natural range, I could match George Michael and Boy George almost note for note.
Also sometimes gender-bending a song on purpose can sound surprisingly awesome, and some of the great covers out there are gender-bent (some with the lyrics changed, and some not).
And then there's the fact that there's that androgynous range right in the middle where sometimes you can't TELL a singer's physical sex by just listening, and...
Omg yes! Thank you for saying it! I have a deeper voice and I dislike the majority of female pop singers that are popular atm, and I suspect one reason is because I can't sing along to their songs comfortably.
Ive recked my voice trying to sing along with Whitney Houston and mariah carey lol im beyond help 😂
So I don’t know how I’d find my voice without missing a beat
(Lol)
it does take patience and work
Hello, I am interested in taking voice lessons with you, can you please give me the information 🙏😊
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I also don't agree with the gender thing. I am a female alto and I find it easy to play certain songs sung by boys. I recently started taking singing lesson and my teacher and I disagree with the choosing of songs because of this, she insists I should play songs sung by females only but she proposes ballads that I don't like and never really enjoyed listening to. It's really a struggle being a girl and an alto at the same time, it's harder to find songs to sing (especially pop, since most of the female artists are mezzo sopranos). So maybe in this situation (alto female) it's ok to sing outside of your gender right? I don't wanna sing Amy Winehouse all the time haha
Sammmmme. I feel like some of the women go too high for me. I just try to sing in my vocal range rather than by gender. If it's uncomfortable I adjust. If it doesn't work then I try again.
Same. I can’t really sing Ariana grande songs since she goes up to a c6 and that’s too high for me anyway
Isn’t it possible to sing any song by just singing in a low tone?
I went to the voice finder site and it does not work?
According to an app I used my vocal range is a C3 with some times approaching a C5.
Of course it seem's to be all over the place.
Of course I think I hurt my throat a little.
How do I find an app to test what ever you called step 4?
Because I have no clue how to spell it.
Okay I think I found what you were talking about.
I could get G3 F3 E3 A4 B4 D3 C3 B2 A2 and G2 and I don't know how to control either of these.
Nor do I know what they refer to.
Any help would be appreciated.
I think my voice is cursed lol.
That would be if I was superstitious.
If anyone see's my above post is this type of voice typical for a 31 year old ?
If so what kind of song's If any could i potentially learn ?
I have a question...i cannot surpass C5...i have to flip Into falsetto for thar
that isn't surprising if you're a male, fairly normal range
I’m a tenor. So, it doesn’t seem right for me to sing Johnny cash. I go for singers like BackStreet Boys or Justin Timberlake.
I used the app and it says my vocal range is from Bb2 to C5
What is Bb2? Is it just B2?
I can’t follow my own feet without missing a step
oh, come on, be positive with yourself
The only songs I can sing with any degree of success are those songs song by Kris Kristopherson. He is basically talking with a gravelly voice.
isnt that a d5 not d4 in that song?
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I'll check it out
thank you!
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I found a great example of picking a song that's not fitted for your voice, Miley Cyrus trying to sing Comfortably Numb. Her voice is not deep enough to sound good in the opening lines, and she didn't make any key adjustments. I'm sure her audience loved it, but you can tell she was straining her voice to hit those low notes.
I don’t even know my voice and I don’t think it’s healthy for people to try and figure it out on their own without ANY guidance/vocal teaching.
I understand
Don’t try to sing with a multiple singers in one song. Like an example is couple singing together or same gender singing together. Pick a song that is only one singer. I promise, you won’t succeed through multiple singer. Unless you have group of people singing with you, but there range must match.
The fact that he has to apologize for the fact that most human males can’t sound like Michael Jackson is hilarious.
Lots of helpful advice but I strongly disagree with the first tip “choose a song that fits your gender.” As a female (a soprano) I’ve sung many songs by male singers and have just gone up one octave higher maybe or just sang it in a different key if necessary and had no problem whatsoever. If you really love a song then I think you can make it work for your voice though it may just mean singing it in a different key. If you’re a beginner then maybe that isn’t a great place to start but I think this is something most singers can probably learn to do.
sure, these are generalities, of course
Yeah! One of my favorite songs to use for auditions is "Good Kid" from The Lightning Thief which is sung by a male character. I just bring the key up 2 or 3.
True for me, I have no problem in singing male songs
Lmao, as a girl I find songs for male tenors fit my voice best
Same
The first step is basically trash
Doesn't anyone else think that he looks like a CUTE bunny?😍
Anyways Thank you!
Your videos helped me a LOT 😊🙏
Happy to help!
Plz help me. I can’t find vocal teachers like 50 for 30 mins or an hour was what I paid back in the day
yes, that was back in the day
The conflation of sex and gender is a scourge. "Gender" is just a synonym for sexism, my friend.
Yay number5 comment
great!
Don’t be so PC dude
What those that identify as female! Dude, I might want to identify as Mariah Carey but it isn't going to happen...stick with music or study biology as a major.
Let's hear an actual song. So far I am not impressed.