1. For Pitch Accuracy in your ears, eyes/fingers, voice, breath, conscious, and subconscious

Four Objectives:

1.  Your ear listens and tunes into the frequency of the note while your voice matches it and you see and feel the notes on the keyboard.  This conditions the subconscious and muscles to sing the correct pitches.

2.  Check your accuracy with a voice tuning app while doing this exercise (I use… “Tuner – Pitched!” by stonekick)

3.  Your breath is to be totally exhausted after after a tuning fingering. 

4. Taking quick breaths … like between the note run and the arpeggio

*  Take your voice to your highest possible note that you can do without excessive straining, and also to the lowest.

*  Tightening your stomach muscles when singing notes … for when you use this in a song

Tuning Your Subconscious —————

Use your Keyboard to generate note tones for you where you match with your voice.  Five first notes of a scale, walking progression up and down, then the notes of the chord up and down for 5 notes.  Your fingering should be exactly like it is when playing a full scale in that key.  In the left hand play the chord for harmonics.

First:  In your right hand play the 3 notes of the scale at the same time, 1 3 5, hence a chord.

Second:  Play independently the first 5 notes of the particular scale up then down 1 2 3 4 5 4 3 2 1

Third:  Pay the chord notes independently, 1 3 5 3 1

Fourth:  Play the 3 notes of the scale at the same time, 1 3 5, again a chord.

Then move up one semitone and do the next 5 notes of the scale.  Tune your vocal range from your highest note to your lowest note possible.  Concentrate on making your voice matching the piano tone exactly.

You should do this in all the 5 vowels, a e i o u.    Vary the sounds coming from the keyboard from piano to organ to violin to guitar, etc.

You need to condition your voice to easily get up to as high as you can go, and as low as it can go.

If you have time constraints at least pick three vowels and alternate to the other vowels every tuning session.  This is a quick warmup.

Pro Tuning

Tune with all the 7 notes in a targeted scale, plus the 8th note.   Tune up the scale, take a breath, then tune down the scale.  The scales to practice are starting from middle C. 

Example:  UP = C, D, E, F, G.  DOWN = C, B, Bb, A, G, F, E, D, C.  Do these scales to your highest note and to your lowest note.  Use the same fingering you use for practicing scales.

After completing the lowest note of a scale, play the root note, the subdominant and the dominant note of that scale.  Then move to the next scale on the list.

These exercises will greatly help you in playing melodies by ear.

Register Tuning 1

The phonation is…   mmmmm aaaaaa.   Hold the mmmm sound for a few seconds, let it vibrate in your head, then transition into the aaaaa sound with an vertical open mouth.  The mmmm sound is to resonate your head cavities.   Hold the aaaaa sound for 3 or 4 seconds.  This exercise will help develop your ear by humming note pitches that will help you decode melody tunes.  

If you are using an electric keyboard it is best to do this exercise with the organ sound so it will have a sustained note sound while you vocalize.

Vocalize the 7+1 notes of the scale (add the higher root note for 8 notes).  Then move up a semi tone and repeat.   Vocalize to your highest pitch.  Then come down stopping at your lowest note you can sing.  Alternatively vocalize up the scale with all the 12 notes in the octaves up to your highest note.  Then come down vocalizing to your lowest note. 

At the end play the one, four, and five chords of that scale.  Then play the scale with the proper fingering. 

While the right hand is playing the notes you are vocalizing, in the left hand play a lower octave, or play the chord, or arpeggiate the chord.  Just sound this briefly.  This facilitates you to playing piano while singing  when you later grow into playing chords and even melodies which is a must for top level singing.

Register Tuning 2

Same technique except with phonation ….. mmmmmm ae……………ae   The shape of the mouth (embouchure) should be a horizontal oval when vocalizing the  ae.