If singers never learns to sing within the structure of scales, they never truly discipline their ears to hear the harmonics of the scale. Once you’re able to hear a chord and arpeggiate it (break it ...

Try to sing up the scale of notes into a pipe, certain notes are impossible to sing! Try to sing up the scale of notes into a pipe, and you’ll find certain notes are impossible to sing. WHY?!

The basic definition of a scale is a set of musical notes arranged in order. Most people are familiar with the C major scale as being the one where you start at middle C on the piano and just play all ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - For singers and their audiences, being "in tune" might not be as important as we think. The fact that singers fail to consistently hit the right notes may have implications for the ...

It might sound like a vocal impossibility, but you can actually sing two notes at once – and the result is one of the most amazing things we've heard. One singer, one voice, one note, right? After all ...

The mathematical rules for creating musical harmony may be more malleable than thought. Western music theory traditionally holds that chords sound most pleasant when they contain notes separated by ...

The chromatic scale -- the musical scale that follows the notes of the piano and of which the Western seven-tone do-re-mi scale is a subset -- may not be based on number ratios, as many physicists and ...

What is vibrato? That beautiful, wavering sound adds richness to a singer’s voice. Imagine your favorite artist holding a note that seems to shimmer and pulse with emotion. That’s vibrato in action!