If you have trouble staying in tune on swiftly changing notes, there are two feasible reasons for it. Moreover you can’t hear and properly measure the intervals between the notes, or you don’t have much vocal flexibility. Both issues can be solved with something of work.

Often, unless you have that genetic endowment, you won’t be able to develop absolute pitch. But pretty much anyone can learn what’s called relative pitch. Relative pitch is a brief step down from total pitch. Relative pitch is the ability to distinguish one pitch from another and measure the distance (interval) between any two pitches.

Solfege is a program that has been in use since the 1200s AD. It assigns a syllable to every note of an octave scale. You’ve heard the syllables, although you didn’t know that’s what they were. The song “Do, Re, Mi” from musical The Sound of Music is based upon solfege.

As soon as you’ve learned solfege, you can sing any pitch once you’ve heard a designated starting pitch. Just to illustrate, you can sing a G after hearing a C, as you know that the interval is a fifth, from do to sol, and you likewise know what a fifth sounds like.

If your challenge is insufficient flexibility, there are vocal exercises you can do to create it.

1.Up going triplet scale. This exercise is intricate to explain, but simple to sing. Use the solfege syllables (do, re, mi, etc.). Sing an eighth-note triplet high up starting on each syllable; when you get to the top of the scale, reverse and sing every triplet downward. Sing the exercise as rapidly as you can. In the key of C major you would sing C-D-E on do, D-E-F on re, E-F-G on mi, F-G-A on fa, G-A-B on so, A-B-C on la, B-C-D on ti, then C on do. For the downward part of the scale, sing C-B-A on do, B-A-G on ti, A-G-F on la, G-F-E on so, F-E-D on fa, E-D-C on mi, D-C-B on re, and, once again, C on do.

2.Ascending and descending thirds. This is one more exercise that’s easier to sing than to explain. Starting on the base note, rise a third, down a whole step, up another third, etc. until you attain the 5th tone, then reverse and come up again down a third, up a half step, down a third, up a whole step, etc. Again, sing it as quickly as you can. Using solfege syllables you would sing do mi re fa mi so fa la so; so mi fa re mi do re ti do. In C major that would be C-E-D-F-E-G-F-A-G; G-E-F-D-E-C-D-B-C.

3.Rapid repeated up and down five note scale. This one is simple. You just get ahead and down a five tone scale: do re mi fa so fa mi re do and repeat.

4.The arpeggio. Using good posture and breath support as always, sing the tones do-mi-so-do-so-mi-do on the vowel “oo”. For instance, in the key of C major you would sing C-E-G-C-G-E-C. Sing the arpeggio rapidly and three times in sequence. Then climb a half-step and start the arpeggio on C#; keep on moving up by half-steps.

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