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Topic: Playing and singing at the same time  (Read 1508 times)

Offline manugarciac

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Playing and singing at the same time
on: January 08, 2011, 07:03:27 PM
I'm finding it pretty hard to do. Any tips to practice this?

Offline countrymath

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Re: Playing and singing at the same time
Reply #1 on: January 08, 2011, 08:44:31 PM
I do. And its worse: backing vocals!

I need to play and sing the descendent 5th from the lead guitarist.
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Offline richard black

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Re: Playing and singing at the same time
Reply #2 on: January 08, 2011, 09:32:37 PM
Start with just voice and left hand, then fill in the right hand gradually until you're playing everything that's there. It's hard, I have to do it quite a lot and after 20 years I'm still not entirely comfortable with it - and I still have a voice like a toad being stepped on :-(
Instrumentalists are all wannabe singers. Discuss.

Offline elzbietaj

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Re: Playing and singing at the same time
Reply #3 on: January 17, 2011, 08:16:08 PM
after 20 years I'm still not entirely comfortable with it - and I still have a voice like a toad being stepped on :-(
20 eyars :( doesn't sound comforting...
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