Comments on: Tips for Singing While Playing Guitar http://www.easylearn2playguitar.com/singing/tips-for-singing-while-playing-guitar/ Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:29:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: THE MAZ http://www.easylearn2playguitar.com/singing/tips-for-singing-while-playing-guitar/comment-page-1/#comment-338 THE MAZ Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:35:58 +0000 http://easylearn2playguitar.com/guitar/tips-for-singing-while-playing-guitar/#comment-338 WHERE IS THE FIFTH TIP?!? WHERE IS THE FIFTH TIP?!?

]]> By: Michael Jae http://www.easylearn2playguitar.com/singing/tips-for-singing-while-playing-guitar/comment-page-1/#comment-284 Michael Jae Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:49:42 +0000 http://easylearn2playguitar.com/guitar/tips-for-singing-while-playing-guitar/#comment-284 Hey Palmyrah thanks for your ideas. I like your point about thinking of the whole sound. I think I sometimes tend to focus so much on one aspect of a sound that I forget and neglect the rest. I've gotten better about this over the years, but it's something I find I have to remember to remind myself about. Singing and playing a new song (especially complicated rhythm like metal) is often like tapping your head and rubbing your stomach at the same time. At first it's awkward as hell but you catch on after doing it a while. Hey Palmyrah thanks for your ideas.

I like your point about thinking of the whole sound. I think I sometimes tend to focus so much on one aspect of a sound that I forget and neglect the rest. I’ve gotten better about this over the years, but it’s something I find I have to remember to remind myself about.

Singing and playing a new song (especially complicated rhythm like metal) is often like tapping your head and rubbing your stomach at the same time. At first it’s awkward as hell but you catch on after doing it a while.

]]> By: Michael Jae http://www.easylearn2playguitar.com/singing/tips-for-singing-while-playing-guitar/comment-page-1/#comment-283 Michael Jae Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:44:15 +0000 http://easylearn2playguitar.com/guitar/tips-for-singing-while-playing-guitar/#comment-283 Hey Yahweh, I fixed the typo. Thanks. I know you can't forgive me, but look on the bright side, I didn't spell it correctly in the next to last sentence. Hey Yahweh, I fixed the typo. Thanks. I know you can’t forgive me, but look on the bright side, I didn’t spell it correctly in the next to last sentence.

]]> By: Yahweh http://www.easylearn2playguitar.com/singing/tips-for-singing-while-playing-guitar/comment-page-1/#comment-271 Yahweh Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:26:22 +0000 http://easylearn2playguitar.com/guitar/tips-for-singing-while-playing-guitar/#comment-271 "...you’ll here the music more clearly." I tend to lose a lot of respect for people who can't spell anyway but a site about music that can't even spell the word "hear" correctly, that's unforgivable. “…you’ll here the music more clearly.”
I tend to lose a lot of respect for people who can’t spell anyway but a site about music that can’t even spell the word “hear” correctly, that’s unforgivable.

]]> By: daniel http://www.easylearn2playguitar.com/singing/tips-for-singing-while-playing-guitar/comment-page-1/#comment-260 daniel Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:18:17 +0000 http://easylearn2playguitar.com/guitar/tips-for-singing-while-playing-guitar/#comment-260 yeah, it gets hard for me too. i mean playing something like the scientist or dare you to move isnt tough but something like dirty second hands or meant to live...i have to stop and go away and come back to not get frusterated...and then you have picking riffs like One or sliding down from 9-6-3 while shouting Stars at the top of your lungs... its all about practice, like you said. know them well so you dont freak out. yeah, it gets hard for me too. i mean playing something like the scientist or dare you to move isnt tough but something like dirty second hands or meant to live…i have to stop and go away and come back to not get frusterated…and then you have picking riffs like One or sliding down from 9-6-3 while shouting Stars at the top of your lungs…
its all about practice, like you said. know them well so you dont freak out.

]]> By: Palmyrah http://www.easylearn2playguitar.com/singing/tips-for-singing-while-playing-guitar/comment-page-1/#comment-228 Palmyrah Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:36:03 +0000 http://easylearn2playguitar.com/guitar/tips-for-singing-while-playing-guitar/#comment-228 One thing that helps for me is to think of the overall melody line - which starts with the first note of the song and finishes with the last, and is passed back and forth between the voice and all the other instruments in the band including your guitar. Your contribution to the melody line is your voice and your guitar - just play and sing the notes one after another as they come, thinking all the time of the *whole* sound you're trying to make. When you've got used to thinking like that, you can expand it to thinking harmonically, too. Multi-string harmonic leads or voice and guitar in harmony can also be thought of as following the line, except you have to think of the tonal colour of the harmonic combination replacing the simple pitch of a single note. Does that sound like gobbledygook? Read it again, and think about it next time you're listening to a piece of music. It will come right. One thing that helps for me is to think of the overall melody line – which starts with the first note of the song and finishes with the last, and is passed back and forth between the voice and all the other instruments in the band including your guitar. Your contribution to the melody line is your voice and your guitar – just play and sing the notes one after another as they come, thinking all the time of the *whole* sound you’re trying to make.

When you’ve got used to thinking like that, you can expand it to thinking harmonically, too. Multi-string harmonic leads or voice and guitar in harmony can also be thought of as following the line, except you have to think of the tonal colour of the harmonic combination replacing the simple pitch of a single note.

Does that sound like gobbledygook? Read it again, and think about it next time you’re listening to a piece of music. It will come right.

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