Why Learning To Sing By Ear Is VERY bad.
Most amateur singers who do not have a naturally good voice, but would like to like to learn to sing better, usually resort to simply singing along to recordings of their favorite singers.
There are many reasons why trying to learn to sing this way is awful, and will actually hurt your voice.
1. Your favorite singer might not have good technique, and in fact have bad habits.
2. When you sing along to another singer you are just learning to imitate, not control every aspect of your own voice. You won’t know how to sing outside of the imitation.
3. You won’t be learning to control your whole range. Even good singers, usually stay within a small part of their entire range for most songs, because most commercial song don’t wildly go from a high pitch to low pitch.
4. Trying to impersonate a singer beyond your current skill level will hurt your voice. Really great singers with powerful voices and large ranges, have developed those voices from years of training and developed vocal endurance and control.
5. Most important, when you learn to sing by singing along to another singer you are learning strictly by ear, by sound. It is possible to make a good sound with bad technique that will damage your voice. A bad technique producing the same sound as good technique is not sustainable over many performances. So, while you may be able to pull of a good sounding performance one night, the next night your voice would be strained from the previous performance and not able to function in subsequent nights.
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