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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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.
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