How do you play guitar and sing so your not strumming the way your singing?
- Sunday Nov 1,2009 04:10 AM
- By diddy
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advanced players seem to be able to play the basic tune, but sing seperatly…how do you train yourselve to do that?
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i had the same problem. Its very frustrating right?
You honestly just have to practice doing it a lot
Practice Practice Practice.
once you get over that hump your good for just about every song you play. this is when playing guitar gets really fun!
Good Luck!
i guess practice.i kinda did that with drumming.but u learn to stop.
Practice?
[1] Keep repeating the song’s strumming pattern over and over again until your hands/arm do it automatically without you having to think about it.
[2] The first step is to try singing along IN YOUR HEAD while strumming—you need to be able to do this before actually singing.
[3] Once you have [2] mastered, you should be able to multitask and sing a melody while playing a separate strumming pattern.
It’s also possible to practice even when you don’t have a guitar on you, like while listening to your ipod on the couch or something. Sing along with the song and "air strum" (strum without a guitar) so that you have the strumming pattern/singing melody down even BEFORE you pick up the guitar. Although you won’t be able to switch chords, you’re still training your multitasking ability. It’s hard but keep on practicing and you’ll get better each time.
Good luck.
First of all, it depends on the song that you’re singing. some songs have similar notes for the guitar and voice while others don’t.
since you’re probably talking about the songs where the melody and the guitar is different, you need to memorize the guitar part. like…really memorize it, so much that you can play it anytime anywhere. that way you can concentrate solely on your singing; which requires much more concentration than playing the guitar.
start out with simple songs that only have a few chords and a rhythmic strumming then when you get the hang of it, it’ll be much easier.
just keep practising the strumming pattern over and over until you dont even have to think about the notes your playing - it just becomes a reflex and something you automatically do..
then add in the singing.
play rockband it could help you i mean play guitar and sing at the same time you may need to get a mic stand for that though but yeah just try it if it don’t work out then well at least i tried to help
but yeah hope i helped
thats a tough one! it just takes time. you have to be patient and keep practicing!
ik it gets really annoying, but it just takes a lot of practice & patience . you’ll eventually get it down . What I did is I would just begin to sing first, and then bring my strums in . idk why, but it helped me alot .
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