Her voice is pleasant enough, no problem with the tone then, its all about range. A singers range is the lowest note they can comfortable sing and the highest note they can sing without sounding like a cat with someone standing on its tail.
As much as your singer admires her favourite singer she doesn't have the same range. What can you do?
These are some of your options :
- Forget the song - Nice and easy, go learn something easier to sing.
- Fire the singer - Harsh, she can probably sing most of the other stuff fine.
- Change the key - Oh, never thought of that!
Find the key that she can sing the song in. This way you stand a good chance of keeping your singer and adding a new song to your set. She will be happy and and so will the band.
Changing the key is also called transposing. Look at a song with three chords C-F-G7. Your need a lower key so two steps down would be Bb, time to reach for the capo guitarists! This is not a good key for guitar players but keyboard players will love it. Shift it down to A, that is a good guitar key. The new chords are A-D-E7. Learn the song in the new key and try out the singer again, chances are that everyone will now be smiling.
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