how do YOU learn new vocals?

[perricoach]

I'm starting to excel in the songs that I know on Hard (haven't tried expert yet), but there's still about half the songs I don't really know how to sing.

What methods do you use to help you learn? I made a CD of some of the songs to listen to while I drive.

Any suggestions?

[cttiniraq]

The easiest thing I've found is just playing through the tour on drums or guitar first and just listening to them through there. The CD in the car idea is good too though...

[boboette]

I'm a visual person, so I just sing along by following the tune line up and down. i can do that and pass on hard/expert songs. Some songs require a few trials though.

[thorn_9]

I run through the unknown song focusing on pitch and lyrics, then play it on guitar to learn the singers method, then rock it hard on voice again.

[DesiredFX]

To learn something I've never heard before, I just drop the difficulty down to Easy and feel my way through a couple times with the song's vocal track turned up. It's almost impossible to fail on Easy.

One thing that was driving me crazy in In Bloom was the "Hmm-mmm" part. I could not figure out for the life of me what interval he dropped down--every time I tried, the arrow dropped way below the line.

[jenovan]

What methods do you use to help you learn? I made a CD of some of the songs to listen to while I drive.

Any suggestions?

That's precisely what I've done, too, as well as putting the songs on my Zen to listen to at work.. ;) It's helped to some degree..

But there are times when I'm singing in-game where I'd swear that the pitch indicator doesn't match the actual vocals of the song. For stuff like that, once you know the lyrics and tune of the song, you may have to just go through it in Practice mode and see how the game expects you to sing it.

[King_Nuthin]

I like to go to a song lyric site and play a copy of the song and listen without doing any singing. Once or twice and then I will try singing it myself. In Rock Band I just throw on the practice vocal track to listen to a song I don't already have access to (this really only applied to Welcome Home for me, but I haven't done the Bonus Tour).

[Gryffindor]

If it's a song I don't know at all I'll pull it down from iTunes and play it over a few times.

I'm currently doing that with Coheed and Cambria (I really HATE this song but I need more points!)

Another way of practicing is to go to practice in guitar or drum mode and pick out what section you want to work on (such as the mmmm's in In Bloom - I already knew them;))

I think it's a bit of an oversight on the programmers part that they allow you to pick sections to practice on instruments but not on vocals. In practice mode on vocals you have to start at the beginning of the song and there's no way to fast forward to a part or rewind or simply pick the section you want to work on.

(I'm 9th on the PS3 vocal career boards - working towards at least 5th.)

[Deadpool1205]

I would just kind of humm through the song and read the lyrics, do some mumbeling, it sounds terrible, but its an easy way to cheat the game through parts you dont know, since your not penalized for singing parts that arent there, you can just kind of hummm and get close to the pitch, and then once I learn the words, or start to pick up on them, I start singing.

(Really helped me in "Dead On Arival" by fall out boy

[UkuleleSHIMA]

As a top 100 vocalist on the leaderboards and one who's beaten the vocal career on expert, I can say there is 2 things that helped me:

1. Having a good "ear" for pitch.
2. As Harmonix announced the songs for the game, I grabbed them from itunes and began listening to them months ago. :-) I didn't know about 75% of the songlist, and now I love all those songs including Coheed and Cambria. The only one I don't like is Sabotage. It not singing at all. Just screaming in rhythm. Lame.

Good luck and practice!

[StiffEdub]

As a top 100 vocalist on the leaderboards and one who's beaten the vocal career on expert, I can say there is 2 things that helped me:

1. Having a good "ear" for pitch.
2. As Harmonix announced the songs for the game, I grabbed them from itunes and began listening to them months ago. :-) I didn't know about 75% of the songlist, and now I love all those songs including Coheed and Cambria. The only one I don't like is Sabotage. It not singing at all. Just screaming in rhythm. Lame.

Good luck and practice!

TRUE...Or if you are cheap....

Go to Rhapsody, and listen to the song a few times...