Hi guys,

New to the forum and to band in a box. Although I've read through the forum a few times to get help with BIAB.

I've put together a few songs in band in a box and have started recording the vocals on them but I've had a bit of a problem. In my head I have a melody that works perfect with the lyrics and the chord progression, but when I sing it I realise that I have the rhythm down correctly but some of the notes just aren't right.

There are two reasons for it that I can think of, 1) I'm coming up with the sound by knowing what I want it to sound like but without knowing the actual note to make sure I'm singing it in tune and 2) my singing is always very pitchy and I don't have great control. I've used melodyne to correct the pitch but because I don't know the actual note I'm going for I don't know how close to being in tune I am to be able to manually correct the pitch. Although I was quite happy that Melodyne had me down as singing in the right key!

Other than actually composing the melody in notes before singing it, which may take me a long time because the last time I read, never mind wrote, actual notes was back when I was 14. So I'd have to go right back to the start in learning how to do that. Are there any ways that anyone can suggest to get the vocal melody right without writing it down note by note?