Are Are Are you... ...unable to sing in tune yet? ...aware that 95% of people can learn to sing in tune? ...ready to practice?

Teach Your Children to Sing Watch how to pitch match with your baby or child and a musically babbling baby. Low-cost, highly effective strategies for yourself: Start singing all the time...it takes practice! Write "SING!" on post-it notes and put them on the shower, in the car....everywhere! Practice taking deep breaths and singing out "on the breath" toward the corner of a room. See: Vocal Warm Up; How to Improve Your Voice. How to Sing--high notes. Practice singing syllables and scales. Exercise your upper range by saying "meows" or very high sighing. Record yourself singing "Twinkle, Twinkle". Then, listen to yourself. Sing with software that allows you to see the frequency of your voice compared to the pitch (such as Singing Coach for PC--less than $20 on Amazon.com). Play a pitch on a piano or pitch pipe. Sing it on “loo.” Ask a friend whether you are too high or low and slide up or down to match the pitch. See your progress: Singing Coach gives a score on accuracy each time you sing a song. Develop pitch memory by playing a comfortable pitch (middle C for women or low G for men), matching it, and trying to remember it for 24 hours. Next day, “loo” the pitch you remember and then play the pitch on your piano or pitch pipe. Slide up or down till you match. Vocal Hoarseness? Watch Dr. Oz's show with doctors who specialize in vocal problems.

Making Peace with Your Voice by Sarah M. Greer, Songtaneous, 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*)