Find Your Lowest Note and Your Comfortable Singing 0
When you write songs for yourself to sing, take into account the keys that suit your voice. Find your lowest note and your comfortable singing, and then any higher notes you could get by pushing your voice, and finally high notes that are reaction Relate the highest comfortable note to the scale of the key in which you want to write a song. Check to see if this note is scale, like the root, third or fifth. You can plan your melody to take that into consideration.
A well known recording trick is to pitch a song in a key that is slightly too high for the singer, so the straining for notes performance. Motown writers like Holland-Dozier-Holland used to pitch songs in keys that were just a bit too high for M Stubbs of The Four Tops, to bring out more passion in their voices. But if you’re going to sing your songs live, don’t use many or you’ll never get through a set with your voice intact. The opposite effect is not so common, but worth conside something from Michael Stipe singing at the low end of his range, and as for Lee Marvin’s ‘Wanderin’ Star’. . . .With age, the voice naturally loses some of its range. This has had an interesting consequence for a singer-songwriter like relied on altered guitar tunings. Over the years her tunings have had to move down to match the drop in her voice problems as the guitar strings have got slacker.
