Have you always wanted to sing? Maybe people are shutting you up because your voice is awful or you're tone deaf or you just can't hit the right notes. Maybe you just don't hear the way others do. Learning how to sing is not a breeze, but it's probably easier than you think. You can learn here just how to carry a tune.

1. Start by having one or more of the following - a piano, a tuning fork or pitch pipe or tuner, a guitar or some other instrument, a friend with a good ear.
2. Play or listen to a note. Listen to it closely as it doesn't waver and stays on pitch. Now sing with the note and listen to your own voice. Are they the same? Stop and listen again and sing with the note until you are sure that the two notes are exactly the same. 3. Hold the note and sing with the instrument or person for as long as you can. Then allow the constant note to come back in - did your pitch change? are you still right? add in and take out the instrument until you can keep up the note by yourself without any help.
4. The next note up on the major scale should be played next. If you started on C, play D, for example. If you just sang Do, sing Re. Repeat number 3 with this note as well. Then sing C...D...C...D... until you can get those two together.
5. When you've gotten those, add the other notes, again one by one, so that you then sing C...D...E...C...D...E.... Do this until you can sing CDEFGABC (Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti DO) repeatedly without help.
6. Then practice going down from the high C to the low C. One nice exercise for this is Do...Do Re Do...Do Re Mi Re Do...Do Re Mi Fa Mi Re Do...etc. and then from the top, DO...DO Ti DO...DO Ti La Ti DO...etc.
7. When you find you can copy notes, put words to them. Instead of Aaaaa or Do Re Mi Fa sing "Now I can sing in - to the sky" or whatever silly words you can come up with. Try different words. Go faster.
8. If you listen closely and practice these techniques, you can take any song, slow it down, take the notes one by one and learn them. The key is in listening properly and imitating the note until you are sure you are in tune with it. This is something that takes practice and training - find a friendly ear and you will soon sing like a lark!