How come we can hear songs accurately in our heads but cannot necessarily reproduce them accurately with our voices?

Question

One thing: I’m not talking about the issue of whether it’s physically possible to hit the notes. I mean more like the problem of “making” our voices hit the notes we hear in our heads.

In: Biology

Answer 1

It’s sort of like trying to draw something that you don’t know how to draw. The thing you want to recreate is there, but you aren’t quite sure how to go about it, so your brain just tries to wing it and the result is generally sub-par.