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12-27-2010, 07:01 PM
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I have always wanted to learn how to sing,maybe more so than I've wanted to play bass. However, I know I'm not going to become the next Chris Daughtry in singing. However, I'd like to learn well enough to provide backing vocals for hard rock,and rock. I definitely don't have the money for singing lessons so does anybody have any tips,links,sources to help in developing ones voice for singing?
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Originally Posted by stflbn  Two brothers... an octave apart. One muscular and strong who all the women love, the other thin and whimpy that makes screeching noises when ignored. | |
12-27-2010, 08:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Seattle, Washington | | | learn the same way you learn to play bass
play notes on the piano and sing the notes sing like "C sharp" with it, your musical ear should be developed enough to know when a note isn't mathing up with another note, move onto scales, chords, etc, eventually you want to get to a point where you can sing melodic lines similar to playing the bass
but more importantly, just like playing bass, sing your notes with FEELING
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12-27-2010, 08:16 PM
| | | | Try to find your range where you can comfortably sing some notes. And then just sing along, just like you play along on your bass. Just like any instrument though you have to practice a little every day. For harmony notes try singing the 5th along with the main vocal line. I have found that years of playing bass makes it easier to hear the 5th more than any other note. |
12-27-2010, 08:25 PM
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12-29-2010, 05:32 PM
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Originally Posted by stflbn Two brothers... an octave apart. One muscular and strong who all the women love, the other thin and whimpy that makes screeching noises when ignored. | |
12-31-2010, 08:30 AM
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Originally Posted by stflbn Two brothers... an octave apart. One muscular and strong who all the women love, the other thin and whimpy that makes screeching noises when ignored. | |
12-31-2010, 08:40 AM
|  | (aka Greg Harman) | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Dunbar, West Virginia | | | That suggestion to sing from your gut and not your throat or mouth is important. Also important to over enunciate. That is, be expressive with all of your mouth; a lazy mouth leads to garble through a PA. Listen to 3rds and 5ths, minor thirds for harmony lines. Walking bass lines can lead you to the harmony notes. And of course listen to vocal bands in the area of music you enjoy.
My first suggestion was going to be to join a church choir because there you would gain an understanding of harmony and maybe some personal tutoring for free but joining a choir brings up other questions.
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12-31-2010, 10:46 AM
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Originally Posted by etoncrow That suggestion to sing from your gut and not your throat or mouth is important. Also important to over enunciate. That is, be expressive with all of your mouth; a lazy mouth leads to garble through a PA. Listen to 3rds and 5ths, minor thirds for harmony lines. Walking bass lines can lead you to the harmony notes. And of course listen to vocal bands in the area of music you enjoy.
My first suggestion was going to be to join a church choir because there you would gain an understanding of harmony and maybe some personal tutoring for free but joining a choir brings up other questions. | The church I goto doesn't have a choir,they have a full band instead.
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Originally Posted by stflbn Two brothers... an octave apart. One muscular and strong who all the women love, the other thin and whimpy that makes screeching noises when ignored. | |
12-31-2010, 12:05 PM
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Originally Posted by 5string5fingers The church I goto doesn't have a choir,they have a full band instead. | Find a trained singer in yer congregation to run it and start a choir in yer church?
Join a non-church choir?
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