How do u play guitar at the same time as singing?? plz help me give us sum tips
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Hexer
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learn to play the songs so good, that you play them almost automatically (without having to think about it) and best: do the same with the vocal-part!
If you write songs where you're gonna sing+play: try to make the vocal-lines fit as good as possible with the stuff you will be playing along to them (or the other way round). try to keep the riffs kinda simple (what "simple" means depends on your playing-skills I guess...)
If you write songs where you're gonna sing+play: try to make the vocal-lines fit as good as possible with the stuff you will be playing along to them (or the other way round). try to keep the riffs kinda simple (what "simple" means depends on your playing-skills I guess...)
Vital Remains
Just a Man
play slow and steady and sing slow and steady wit it. start with some bluegrass, because its easy and sounds redneck as hell so you really have fun.
Ravenous Enemy
hell alive
The most important step is turning what you play on guitar from a tune (i.e. something you hear in your head) to a mechanical action performed by your body.
(For me) Holding two melodies at the same time is the impossible part so i just remove one of the melodies - the guitar part.
Obviously this is easiest to do with chords but it can progress from there.
(For me) Holding two melodies at the same time is the impossible part so i just remove one of the melodies - the guitar part.
Obviously this is easiest to do with chords but it can progress from there.
ex-nihilo
New Metal Member
Well, Guitarshredder666, what you got to do, is sit with each song that you make, and start with practicing the song and reading the lyrics in your head, as many times as you can, until you can read the lyrics on time with the tune. Then you should start singing outloud, with your guitar playing until you can get it right. This is what I have been doing for years, and it seems to work fine, so hopefully it benefits you as well.
PS> Do it by yourself! It will get really annoying to your band to hear you do this a million times..trust me.
PS> Do it by yourself! It will get really annoying to your band to hear you do this a million times..trust me.
Bryant
Mr. Sleepy
This sounds like a cop out, but the truth is ONLY practice makes it possible. I have seen some unknown local guy at open-mic night at a bar play acoustic guitar while he sang AND had a foot tambourine going in different beats to boot. I was amazed at what he did and I asked him his secret (though I play guitar and sing harmony) and he said simply "practice."
Bryant
Bryant
Like the others have said, practice. What I do is I learn the guitar (or bass, in my case) part perfectly first, then I listen to the song over and over and sing (or growl) along to it until singing/growling it is mechanical. Then you try and do both together and you should get it within a couple tries.
