subject: Home Karaoke Tips - Choosing The Right Song For You To Sing [print this page] Home Karaoke Tips - Choosing The Right Song For You To Sing
One of the concerns almost everyone has about home karaoke is that they do not want to look stupid in front of their family and friends. Singing at bar can be just as bad, although with everyone drinking and that last guy being so bad the audience might cut you a break.
At home, though, it can be more intimidating so it is important that you have everything in your favor. It doesn't matter if you just started karaoke or have been doing this for years. Not every song is suited for every variation of vocal chords!
You would have never heard the late Barry White trying to sing a Celine Dion tune. In fact, it would laughable if he even tried. And nobody ever laughed at Barry White.
You need to take into consideration both your gender and your vocal range. Sure, some songs are obviously written for a woman to sing, like the song "Woman." So if you're a guy, unless you're going for laugh, and a bit risky one at that, you probably don't want to sing that particular song...even if it IS an easy song to sing. And trust me...it is.
So let's talk about vocal range.
Here are the average vocal ranges for the most common vocal types.
Soprano (high) - C4 to A5
Tenor - B2 to G4
Alto - F3 to D5
Baritone (low) - G2 to E4
We have chosen to leave out "Bass" since there are not really a lot of home karaoke tunes for a bass vocalist unless you ARE singing Barry White.
The thing you want to test is to see if you can hit ALL the notes within the particular range for your vocal type. If you can, then you can probably hit all the notes for your chosen song provided that song is well matched for that vocal type.
OK then, down to the nitty gritty; how do you find out what vocal range one of your potential karaoke songs was made for? Unfortunately there are very few songs that will state what range they are for on the sheet music; church music being a notable exception, I guess.
What you need to do is make a note of the lowest and highest notes in the song, and do that by going through the music and see what range they fall in. If they fall into the range you have identified to be yours, then there is a good chance that you will be able to sing it and not worry about getting laughed at.
If you want to know the real secrets to home karaoke success then come over to my website and pick up a copy of my free ebook Killer Karaoke Creation Tips.
