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Great question Brandon and one that a lot of people ask. It’s often a surprise to people to learn that singing is difficult while playing, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible as you can see from so many that have learned the skill.
I asked the same question for probably a good year. It baffled me. What helped me was to find a very simple song that you know, forwards and backwards, such as Happy Birthday to You, Jingle Bells, or any song that matches the melody. First thing is make sure you know how to play the song fairly well so that you don’t have to think too much when you’re trying to sing along with it once you can basically play the music forward and backwards without thinking much you can just add the words because they’ll be well known to you and match the melody.
It is often much easier to sing while playing when you only strum one time per chord instead of trying to do a strum pattern where you might have to think about what you’re doing too much.