Your Vocal Quick Start:Seven Reasons You Can Learn to Sing
No Matter How You Think You Sound Now
1. Your body is designed to sing
You were born with a powerful voice. All babies are. In fact, a baby’s voice is one of the most compelling sounds on earth.
Have you ever sat in a restaurant when a baby cried? Everyone reacts. Some folks whisper “shut that kid up!” Others
say, “Oh, poor little darlin’,” but everyone who hears it feels the power of the baby’s voice. That’s the same core-voice good singers learn to use. It's the voice Oren Brown, the great voice teacher from Julliard, called the “primal voice.”
Your primal voice is amazing! It has remarkable stamina. Have you noticed that babies can cry for hours without getting hoarse?
And the healthy primal voice has a huge range (low notes to high). Many two-year-old children have 4 octaves of vocal range. That’s more than a clarinet or violin!
The good news is your primal voice is still in you. It’s there when you cry and when you laugh. In fact, it’s there anytime your voice expresses a feeling and you’re not “listening” to how you sound.
Are you ready for the shocker? The primal voice is not available when you’re “trying to sound good.”
That’s right. When we start trying to sound good, we manipulate the voice and the primal-sound is gone.
However, you can learn to access the primal voice for singing. It is a marvelous, subtle art. And when you connect to the primal voice at will, your results are stunning.
2. Voice is the only instrument that produces words
In the world of musical instruments, only the human voice forms words. As you become aware of how words shape your vocal sound, and how their meanings shape your feelings, you get keys that unlock secret doorways to rich tone.
3. You can move beyond your inner-gremlins
What are your inner gremlins?
Inner gremlins are the parts of ourselves that cause us to ‘manipulate’ the voice toward some end, like “trying to sound good,” or “trying to be liked” by listeners. When the gremlins show up they can cause us to hold back the voice or speak and sing timidly. In some cases they may also cause us to speak too loudly or sing with too much force.
Inner gremlins create a “cap” on the voice, which limits vocal expression and locks us into restricted patterns that can weaken and even damage our voices.
Inner gremlins range from beliefs to bad habits and unconscious muscular tension. Here are a few of the usual suspects:
- Fear of public humiliation (stage fright)
- False beliefs about the voice and ourselves
- False perception about how we sound
- Comparing ourselves to other singers
- Limiting habits
- Muscular tension that blocks hearing as well as the voice
Luckily, you’re not stuck with the nasty effects of your gremlins. With the right practice and enough fun, you can rewire neural pathways and create new results.
4. You can move beyond vocal myths, no matter what you’ve been told about your voice
When you realize that you are already creating your vocal results, all of them, you gain new power to create the outcomes you prefer.5. You can learn to identify how you’re blocking your voice
As you gain awareness of how you’re using your body when you sing, you experience new freedom to let go of old tensions and flow with the sound of your released energy.
You may be surprised at where you’re blocking your sound. Blocks can show up in the muscles of your shoulders, hands, chest, throat, jaw, tongue, lips, cheeks, neck, toes, knees, and calves… even your eyebrows!
If you notice that you have signs of tension in any of those areas, you’ll benefit from a guided program of vocal release like the 7-part e-course, Vocal Tips and Sound Solutions. (Get it free at the end of this page.)
6. You can release your voice by practicing the right things in the right ways
Early In 1975, my voice teacher, Brian Swingle asked me, “You’ve heard the saying, ‘practice makes perfect?’”
I said, “sure.”
He replied, “It’s not true. You could practice the wrong thing or the wrong way and get worse. You have to know what to practice and how to practice it. And, if you practice the right things the right ways, you can become excellent. Perfection is out of reach,” he concluded. “Excellence is the best we can hope for. Get used to it.”
7. You get good at anything you keep doing
It’s not rocket science. If you keep doing something, you’ll get good at it. We only improve at what we keep doing. And if we’re having fun, we’ll keep doing it.
The trick is to get involved in a vocal program that is both thorough and FUN.
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