Another Day Karaoke

[Antonio Brittenham]

Hellothere! I'm an attorney and worldwide karaoke singer who's based in New York City. I've sung karaoke in 73 countries around the globe, on all 7 continents, plus Easter Island - as well as all 50 U.S. states! This website chronicles my World Karaoke Tour as well as my general travel adventures. Learn more

But when I sing Karaoke I just struggle. I don't know if I'm singing in the wrong key or something but I know something's wrong. There is only like 1-2 songs I can sing acapella that I sound good. But whenever I go to like a sports bar or something try and sing a Karaoke song I just can't. I don't know how to sing it....

If you don't know what Key the original song is in by the original artist, the karaoke DJ may load up a version of the song that is too high or too low for you to sing. In that case you will crash and burn when the song starts, and suffer all the way to the end. It's the worst. You just want the song to end, but it goes on and on...

If you can, find out in what key you sing the songs you want to sing. That way you can say "Lady in Red in the Key of A" and they can pull up a version of it that works for you. Otherwise, unless you bring your own karaoke tracks with you (which is the best way to go) you are at the mercy of luck... and luck can be good luck or bad...

The way pitch is developed is by learning to sing acapella. If you only sing with the crutch of a melody behind you then you will not be able to sing without it. I struggled with this for YEARS. No one told me the answer was a simple as this:

theres an ios app called right note...it trains your ear with the piano...go to the pitch section and press start. it will play a note and give you time to match the tone or note. it will tell you if you matched the note correctly...keep doing this and you will get more familiar with how instruments sound and how to match their tones or notes. remember the notes you got right and how you did it.

Basically the pitch of a song is very hard to determine to the untrained ears. When you sang along to the songs you were most likely singing an entire octave lower but when you sing along it doesnt really make as much a difference.

However in karaoke with the intruments being on the original pitch, it sounds off when you sing an octave lower than intended. Naturally you then realise and try to sing an octave higher and so struggle with the high notes.

The other possibility could just be in karaokes or wherever, the songs are played a few keys off to the original and this could be confusing as well as it makes finding the tune quite difficult at the start.

A lot of these comments are spot on. Some of the karaoke MIDI tracks are awful and do not blend well with the human voice, which makes it easy to be thrown off. Another idea is the idea of singing independently. When you are singing with someone else, you know that they "have your back." You can also sneak in after you hear the artist sing and correct very quickly. So, quickly that you might not even realize that you are doing it. Practice singing without the artist, or a cappella and you will see great results.

Another tip, memorize the song. Trying to follow and line up the words across the screen with your voice is distracting and breaks up the enjoyment and smoothness of your singing. If you memorize the song, you won't have to look at the words and you can open your voice up, relax, and enjoy your singing.

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ORIGINAL STORY: The Wellington-area man who police say killed one man and wounded another in a shooting in downtown West Palm Beach last month was held without bail Saturday and will appear before a judge again today.

Jovany Ortiz, 27, faces charges of first-degree murder, attempted murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Judge Jeffrey Dana Gillen ordered Ortiz be held at the Palm Beach County Jail until his attorney can be present. He will make a second appearance this morning.

On May 22, police say Ortiz went by Shout Karaoke, a nightclub on Olive Avenue north of Clematis Street, and shot and killed Devin Weingarth, 24, and wounded a second, unidentified man. Witnesses believe it was a drive-by shooting, but city police have yet to confirm those details.

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The fatal shooting was at least the fifth homicide in West Palm Beach this year, according to a Palm Beach Post database. As of Saturday morning, here have been 30 documented homicides in Palm Beach County in 2015, the database shows.

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