Singing : teaching a beginner to identify vocals pitch

[Black Sheep]

How do you do that?
I m trying to teach my girlfriend to sing at the correct pitch but we're having trouble..

[kitsune]

Pitch matching exercises are all about training someone to focus on the tone they hear and how they reproduce it. It is much easier for a person to match another person's voice, so you can play a tone, match it, then have them match you. Matching an instrument directly is more difficult.

Start with pitches that are near her speaking range. You can have her say a phrase and find a pitch on the keyboard that matches one of the words, then work from there. People tend to speak near the bottom of their range, so don't head downward too far. Using diatonic pitches makes things easier than doing it chromatically. If she has a register break, don't cross it. Train the lower and higher parts of her range.

Learning to siren, sliding up or down to a tone, is helpful.

[psgchisolm]

Pitch matching exercises are all about training someone to focus on the tone they hear and how they reproduce it.
Learning to siren, sliding up or down to a tone, is helpful.
Picture a trombone slide. Sliding down to a pitch. Get her to do that with her voice until she becomes comfortable hitting pitches. Like a glissando with her voice. Then play a pitch and have her match it. Tell her if she misses the pitch to slide up to it with her voice. Keep doing that until she's comfortable hitting pitches spot on. It's important to do warm-ups so do extensive ones.

[Black Sheep]

Thank you, comrades :)