By Ear Or By Score?

[theatre_rockstar]

Hey guys nd ur opinion on a serious issue here.

Training to sing by ear or by vocal scores(but thats assuming youre not music illiterate)? So waTS UR PICK?

oh btw, i been trying to find sites that can offer me music scores for vocals but to no success. any of you noe any gd sites?

 

[btherl]

I find singing by ear much easier. Though my ear is already trained.

I imagine that singing would be very difficult without a trained ear.. how would you know when you are not singing the right notes? I don't see how it's possible to sing from score yet not be able to sing by ear as well.

 

[Bishonen]

Its ok to sing by ear but you may end up similar to the original singers. Singing purely by scores requires a certain lvl of music literacy and exists mostly in classical music. You can be unfamiliar to a pop song and sing it from score but usually you won't sound very good without accompaniment of rhythm or melodies/key changes etc.

My preferance is definitely to sing by ear. It provides musical support for your singing and knowledge of the flow of the song.

 

[Narandel]

I've been singing by ears all along ^_^.

 

[sage]

i'm an ear person... i don't know how to sing by score i tried and the pitching went all over the place

 

[rara_loop]

i sing by ear too. though i wish i knew how to sing just by looking at a score.

i guess in order to sing to a score, u gotta know ur intervals by heart. which will probably take awhile to learn.

anyone got any suggestions on learning to sing to a score?

 

[visa]

learning both will never kill you. learning to play/sing from a score will improve your ear, and learning to use your ear will improve your understanding of intervals, etc

practice both!

 

[Paynk]

I think it's only if you want to sing some choir songs, then you'll need serious scores-analysis lol. Or acappella. Or really complicated songs with many parts. Bohemian rhap.

I think it'll be strange and difficult to find scores for rock or pop..

 

[man4422]

By ear

By score also can, but it may take me around 1/2 an hour sightreading and sing...

 

[sinnery]

By Ear

I sing by ear.

But I think even by ear, I easily screw up when trying to sing to the chords I play on the keyboard. bleh.

Takes more practice than I thought.

 

[xiaoCarol]

i use both =p

maybe i prefer by ear. After that i'll read the score to see if i can alter some tune, as well as checking whether i hit the correct pitch. ^^

 

[savagemp5]

I feel that singing by notes will be a better choice. Singing by ear is extermemly easy, even a 5 yr old also noe.

Just imagine...

If one very day u as a singer is handed over a new music piece (pop music, nv heard b4) and u are very honoured, being asked to sing this piece which was writen by someone n rythem written by another, and u go... erm can u sing one time for me ??

Or 1 day u have to perform at some place over a period of a week. And u are performing live, u as a pianist accompanying urself, and singing. Someone requests a song, n u somehow manages to dig out te score, score of not just the lead sheets, but also the number notation of singing melody. What cha gonna do ? U r on live, got to sing it out straight away dude...



U shld never wait till that day to happen, so u shld train in music notations... able to produce a low C High D or E# watever, at an instance.

 

[Promisesnlies]

Definitely byy ear. It's easier this way & it enables the vocalist to 'feel' the song. When singing with the aid of scores, it can be distracting cos you may be fixated on the scores & thus this could interrupt your ability to connect with the song emotionally. Singing by ear frees you from this problem.

 

[blackhart]

I'm definitely for by ear. By score, sometimes it's a bit hard to catch the feel of the song, and there are room for errors. By ear, the whole emotion, the feel, the passion, it's all in the music. The volume, the tone, the power of the melody, makes it easier for the vocalist to perfect the song.

 

[rainedrop]

i quite admire those ppl who can sing by score. like how they manage to just hit the pitch and everything just at one glance. instrumentalists haf their fingerings to depend on but not vocalists. its kinda cool to be able to do tt =]

 

[sage]

I agree! ^^
Scores scare me My voice freezes when I look at all those little taugays..