Tone deaf child? (Y1)

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It was put a bit more diplomatically by his teacher at school but its true - he sings out of tune. Did some scales with him at w/e and if i sing a couple of notes slowly, he can copy quite well. If i sing 5 notes, the last 2 or 3 will be flat or sharp. DH does the same thing so is this inherited ? What is your experience of this? (I used to sing in choirs so (hopefully) its not 'in the land of the blind..' etc ).

I used to believe absolutely that any child can learn to sing in tune, but maybe this isn't true.

btw, he loves singing !

scales - I thought they did this in choir. I only heard the very beginning of it wihch was one note played on the piano and then they sang 7 notes, another key on the piano, another 7 notes. Didn't stick around for the rest so no idea what they did, just attended performances so I assumed that is what singers do... As I said , I have no idea about singing unfortunately. I'll have a look at that forum. Am only mildly interested as it is something I am uninformed about but I think to pursue it any further with dd would be flogging a dead horse really.

Dewe, I've kind of blocked it out now as I just decided it wasn't dd's kind of thing. I'm trying to remember what she said. The voice thing which sounds so odd, as I said, I didn't reallyk now what she meant. As I recall, when I phoned her about singing lessons, she said 10 was too young generally and it is best to wait. Singing lessons too early can seriously damage a young voice. She said she needed to see the child and hear the voice. Some girls at that age are still really little girls, others have embarked on puberty so it is hard to make a general statement. This was to see if she could work with dd or not yet. So I think what she meant with the voice comment was that dd had a voice developped to whatever stage was necessary in her ages to begin to work on it.

I am maybe not making sense but this is how I understood it.She said she would be happy to teach her and dd is to decide whether she wants it or not so that is how she left it. She talked a great deal mor than she actually did any singing practice, wa more a getting to know each other session IYAM.

the reason I looked into it was dd was bored with the kind of songs - quiet, slow, high that they were singing for choir (Bach etc) and I thought in a private lesson she could sing more of what appealed to her . She likes things like some German Lieder - Heidenroeslein and so on but also things with a strong rhythm, not really pop type stuff which she doesn't really know, also a few gospel songs, some fast and furious rocky stuff. The choir was all very beautiful but overwhelmingly slow paced. She is an alto and the choir was mostly sopranos too so maybe she jsut doesn't have the voice for that kind of thing either

well we will leave it. Sorry to have talked so much on your thread about our situation curtaincall. I still think it means little to nothing at your ds's age. It is something you can work on I'd imagine

ZZZen go ahead and talk ! MN is a real education for me and I learn so much reading about others experiences and suggestions. (btw am impressed a 10 yr old likes German Lieder - pretty sophisticated taste imo)

Well I learned something new!

Just had a nosy at Rockschool Vocal exams and they actually DO have to sing scales for those!