That’s a question everyone wants to know about. How long until it starts to show its results? Are you patient? I hope you are because practice takes time.
You should allow yourself at least a month before you can start seeing some tangible progress in your singing from your lessons. A month’s time is also enough to determine if you’re really progressing through your lesson at a steady rate. Having a consistent practice routine added to this will greatly improve your chances.
There are other reasons to stick through things even when you’re achieving things in less than a month’s time but, let’s read on ahead to understand more.
Why One Month
I believe a month is a good time to reflect on whether or not, you’ve improved.
Some people would like to measure their progress sooner but I would suggest keeping it a month at a time for the initial six months because when you’re first starting out you need to let yourself get adapted to it.
The new routine, the new information, and the practice as well. The more you allow yourself to let go through the phases of practice the better it’ll be for you to reflect back on your progress.
So a month’s time is what I recommend for you to see for yourself.
Even if you have marginal improvements compared to other months that is also fine as long as you are improving.
Another reason is that a month is enough time to see results for yourself. Even if you’re starting from a complete beginner.
Whatever you’re practicing from your lessons will also start to solidify and ought to start showing its roots in your habits and singing in general.
If you’re not becoming more natural at singing or if the practice that you are doing isn’t feeling like it’s taking you anywhere closer to your goals then maybe it’s time to see what you’re doing wrong or if the lessons are even worth it.
This applies to both online and offline classes.
If It Takes More Than a Month
The first tithing that you need to understand about your progress is this. It’s never going to be linear. Just like productivity.
You must do whatever you can on a given day and make it a habit to practice rather than relying on willpower to get things done.
So, how do you determine between something that is worth pursuing even if you’ve not mastered it in a month’s time?
Marginal improvements.
If you’ve progressed even to the point where you can think that you are making progress but it’s not there yet, I suggest that you stick with it as those marginal gains have shown themselves and now you are on the right path to mastering it.
It may be unflattering how long some things can take but I always tell this to everyone who’s struggling with anything in music.
You only need to get there once.
Once you’re there you can enjoy it by starting to use it and not worry too much about how it works anymore. It’s wonderful how practicing works right?
For me personally, it was ear training. I just couldn’t crack it and by the time I did, it was too late for me in college. But after college, I used it a lot, and even to this date I use and rely on my current ear training skills to compose.
Remember, you only need to reach there once.
A Word on Competition
If you’re worried about other people getting ahead of you or you being too dumb or too old to learn how to sing, you’re wrong.
Do yourself a favor and learn to sing. Don’t let it be a regret.
What If It Takes Less Than a Month?
Congratulation, you’re a prodigy.
Jokes apart, there are going to be times when you are going to understand and be able to execute things you just learned and be able to do them almost immediately or in less than a month’s time.
You shouldn’t move on to the net thing so soon. Let it solidify. Let it become a part of you. Soak it in, you’re already good at it and all you need to do is keep at it.
Don’t try to make it complicated, get good at it on a level that it’s ridiculous how good you are at it.
Somewhere down the line, it’s just going to help you, it may not be soon but somewhere, someplace this thing that you have over-practiced will come in handy.
Or you might just show off with it.
A Word on Stagnancy
You either need to be burnt out or you need to be doing something wrong.
If you’re feeling burnt out, take a rest from music. I have and you should too.
The other problem is that you’re taking on a skill that is way bigger for you to take at the moment and you need to break it down into smaller parts and be able to work through those smaller parts to make it a big cohesive whole again.
The way you get to this stage is through having irregular lessons and from various places.
I believe that online courses solve all of the problems that you can potentially face.
Learning to Sing
Online courses are the future, whether it’s something you want to learn privately or something you would like to take an official diploma of.
I have written extensively about how I believe in online courses.
But if you’d like a more direct answer and get to which lessons you ought to have then this is going to be it.
‘The four Pillars of Singing’ by Robert Lunte.
Just to keep it short, I own this course myself and I would like you to benefit from it just as much as I have.
But if you’d like to choose for yourself you can find all the courses here, especially the ones that I would recommend people to have. Prices are included as well!
Whatever you may end up deciding, I hope you become a great singer.