@robertgoyette5863

6 months ago

GREAT video and topic mary! my tips from 10 years of playing+singing (after 13 years of trying and giving up) -understand youll sound terrible for the first 2 years. if you can commit to that youll make progress with way less pressure on yourself. -start SIMPLE. even if youve been playing or singing separately for years, start learning with as simple songs as possible-songs with only 2 (horse w/ no name etc) or 3 chords max. -IMO playing and singing at the same time is the equivalent of learning a whole new instrument and thats how you should expect to progress. just because you could sing and play guitar separately you wouldnt automatically assume you could learn piano or drums from scratch in a few weeks and thats the same kind of expectation you need for learning to play and sing simultaneously. -start SLOWWWWWWWW dont try and jump in at the record tempo. if your using a metronome dont go above 100 bpm and its fine if you have to go as slow as 50 or 25. similarly pick slow songs its much easier to learn to play and sing something like moon river than ace of spades. -Learn songs by singer/guitarists first. These have the natural advantage that theyre already designed to do both simultaneously and youll learn/notice little tricks others have put in their songs to make them easier. -Learn from the simplest version of the song as possible. learn songs that already have solo accoustic covers online that way youre not sabotaging yourself by trying to bring in complex lead lines -FINALLY TRANSCRIBE the songs yourself. once youve got tabs videos recordings etc. write down the lyrics+chords together yourself like you would an original song. this will help you learn from your own interpretation of the song instead of trying to translate someone elses.

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