Why are some songs easy to sing along to while others, with not technically harder notes to hit, are much harder?
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Could you give some examples?
Personally though I find some songs harder to sing because they require more breath control. For some songs you may be able to sing in the right key and hit the right notes, but without good enough breath control you may not be able to sing it and have it sound the way it’s intended to
I have a little voice training and obviously her notes are amazing apart from breath control anyway, but when I try to sing some Mariah Carey songs I run out of breath pretty quick. However when I was being taught, I was told to try and figure out other parts in the song where I could breathe, and my teacher would tell me if it sounded off/was obvious or not.
With practice you could get better.
What about them is easier/harder for you?
In my case, it’s usually my familiarity with the style/genre that gets me.
Even if I can isolate and hit every note, a simple pop structure is much easier than one where notes transition into each other at less familiar or more subtle “angles”, compared to the “straight lines and corners” of much simpler songs. My knowledge of technical terms is next to nothing, but compare Hey Jude (simpler) to Strawberry Fields Forever.
Also time signatures play a rome for me. The 4/4 Hey Jude is easier for me to “wrap my throat around” than the what, 7/4 of Across the Universe.
3 more factors besides range to consider are jump intervals, note duration, and harmonic “simplicity”.
Larger note jumps (low to high pitch or high to low pitch) generally are harder to sing accurately than smaller steps, even if both notes are comfortably in your range.
Longer notes give you more time to settle into a pitch, so you’re less likely to get lost, and less of your time is spent singing the wrong pitches, making you think you sang it more accurately.
More complex harmony can be tricky because you can’t accurately sing a note you can’t “hear in your head”. Notes out of the key, notes that are dissonant against other instruments, or notes in groups that don’t usually go together can be harder to imagine in your head and thus harder to sing.
Been singing for about 6 years, I *think* I know what you’re talking about.
Let me know if you’re talking about this: I can sing Angel by the Weeknd very easily, and that song goes high as hell and needs a lot of power. However, singing other Weeknd songs (or songs from any other artist at all), I often cant hit those same notes with ease. Sometimes, not at all.
Songs that I experience with are only songs that I’ve specifically practiced hundreds of times. I believe the throat can get muscle memory for songs after you’ve sung them for quite some time. You’ll probably find that your favorite songs have become fairly easy, but due to the new patterns and strains in new songs, your voice needs to take time to adjust when learning.
There may be a more scientific reason, but that’s the simple thing. Maybe like this…
Your voice is like a river. The more times you try to carve a new path with water, the easier it becomes. Eventually that specific path gets deep and grooved, so water flows very easily through it. You can branch out from that very same path, but it will feel slightly different for a while.
… for a 5 year old explanation I guess? Lmao
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