Unable to sing in tune yet?

Aware that almost everyone can learn?*

Open to practicing?

*except for .15% who are deaf as children, and 2-4% who have amusia, the inability to process sound

Think that you are tone deaf?
Watch Can Your Tone Deafness be Cured?

Teach Your Children to Sing
Watch How to Pitch Match With Your Baby or Child 
Watch a musically babbling baby.

Learn How to Sing Better

1. Believe you can learn. 
2. Start singing all the time...let's call it play. 
3. Write "SING!" on post-it notes and put them on the shower, in the car....everywhere!
4. Take deep breaths and sing out on the breath toward the corner of a room.
5. Watch: Vocal Warm Up. How to Sing in Tune. How to Improve Your Voice. How to Sing--high notes.
6. Sing syllables and scales.
7. Exercise your upper range by making the sound of cat's meows and sirens.
8. Sing with free software called SINGINGCoach that allows you to see the frequency of your voice compared to the pitch. www.singingcoach.com
9. See your progress: SINGINGCoach gives a score on accuracy each time you sing a song.
10. Have a friend hold a pitch on "loo" and slide your voice up or down until you match it.

Vocal Hoarseness?
Dr. Oz: doctors who specialize in vocal problems

Making Peace with Your Voice
Sarah M. Greer
April 11, 2011

As singers, we learn so much through imitation that it’s easy to get discouraged when we don’t sound like other singers.
Guess what?
We’re not supposed to.
…
You are supposed to sound like you. In fact, you are the only one who does.
So embrace it.
Revel in it.
…
Declare a truce with your voice.
Whether you feel like your voice is filet mignon or meatloaf, learn to love it. (Or at least to like it.)
If you spend all your time concentrating on what your voice can’t do, you’ll never discover what it can.
And I promise you that you can do things with your voice that no one else can.
…
(Please!) Don’t let what others can do with their voices stop you from finding out what you can do with yours.
Be selfish.
Worry less about how other people experience your voice and instead focus on how you experience singing.
How does it make you feel? What do you have to say?
…
I really like my voice. It may not be modest, but it’s true.
More important, I feel awake and alive when I sing.
(And I’m at peace with that. *smile*)

Sarah M. Greer (www.sarahmgreer.com) channels her love of singing into performing, teaching and creating community singing events.  Sarah believes in every person's right to sing and the power of singing to change the world. If you are ready to sing smarter, stronger and better, sign up for her F.R.E.E. subscription www.sarahmgreer.com/newsletter/signup.html