‘‘How many miles long is this coastline?’’ asked someone, ‘‘Why, is it not beautiful?’’, I asked – Me. There is a deeper meaning in there somewhere and it’s going to take this article to explain this.
The only way to measure progress in singing is by knowing your practice sessions no matter how small are giving you your time’s worth. Measuring your singing progress through the number of lessons you take is a sure-shot way of knowing no actual data.
I can watch and have watched countless hours of people singing, doesn’t mean I can sing. I need practice for that, let’s read more about it!
Great Numbers – Wrong Measurements
How many singing lessons does one need? The better question to this is what is the worst way to measure your success? The answer to that will be asking how many singing lessons will make me good.
First, we need to clear a few basic things and one of them is how people learn things. I want to start with a personal story of mine. When I was at Berklee College of Music, I could progress through music theory classes simply fast, but when it came to ear training, I wasn’t as fast as I could have been. Just keep that in mind.
As you can imagine I need extra training for ear training but for other classes I didn’t. And therein lies the moral of the story. How many lessons did I need to get better at ear training? I didn’t know because I hadn’t mastered it yet. And that’s where the idea of this question lies.
There needs to be a shift in perspective in order to answer this clearly and the way to do that is to ask not how many singing lessons will make you good, but the better question is what can you do so that your practice is so effective that there is no other thing for you to happen other than to improve. Regardless of how many lessons you must take.
The idea is to make it worth your time, not how much time but did you get 20 minutes’ worth of practice inside of you? Are you sure you made the best you could’ve of those 20 minutes? That’s where the satisfaction of practice lies. Time effectiveness.
So you also need to realize that when you are taking singing lessons there are various factors that go into how well you are going to learn this.
Certain things of singing your own pick up rather fast and certain things of singing you want to struggle with for months and if you are like me you will struggle with ear training for years to come.
But it’s fine because as long as you are willing to put in the time to get better, you will get better and that’s my promise. I know that because I have gotten better, I have become better with ear training over the years, and for me, after doing it for years there is still room to grow.
Actually that I there is so much room to grow that I can’t even tell you how much.
And the same will happen to you. But that’s not the whole story. I also have the innate ability to become acquainted with muscle memory rather fast where my ear lacks, and my hands pick up pieces rather quickly. Of course, the two can’t be interchanged all the time but you get the idea, that you suck at certain things and you rock at others.
It will happen to you and there’s no shying away from hard and difficult things in music or in singing. They must be practiced.
Master Techniques
And also one thing you need to keep in mind is that you need to practice technique (how you make the sound) and what you are practicing in your precious time matters a lot.
You may think that there is a certain amount of lessons you can take to get better is not translated all that well when you actually put it into practice.
On this website, I tried to pave the path for people to learn how to sing through online courses. There are various reasons why I do that: It gives you a perpetual source to learn, not only just the basics of music but something that will take you to the pro level. It gives you bite-sized lessons and things you can practice and things you need to master little by little every day so that you can become a better singer tomorrow a month and a year from now.
And whenever you get stuck at a lesson you will not think to yourself how many times you have to repeat it or how many times you have to re-watch the video or in other words how many singing lessons you need to become better.
You will practice those techniques that are shown in the video as long as it takes because there is no point in practicing if you are not going to stick with them and overcome the hurdles that are given to you. And that’s the whole idea behind the deliberate practice. You have to be deliberate about it.
You can only be deliberate once you know what to practice and how to practice and that is why online courses are really good because they show you what to practice and how to practice.
Knowledge and how to do it.
And you can rewatch these videos over and over again. But I have written extensively on why you should follow an online course and I am going to leave the link for you here.
Before I tell you where to get these online courses I would suggest that you mentally prepare yourself for a perspective shift that will allow you to not view doing your practice as how many singing lessons you need but as how effective can you be during those lessons.
Having perpetual online courses help you be more effective.
You should solidify the basic skills on which the rest of the singing stands so that regardless of how far you want to push your vocal skills, you will always have the backbone of your practice to stand on.
I know many people say that getting a foundation right is important and it is 100% true. It’s true to the point that there is no refuting or argument against it. The more you practice your basics and principles you will benefit from them as time passes. And nothing will ever give you a better ROI.
But, Which Course to Buy?
The answer to that is simple, ‘The Four Pillars of Singing’.
It is a methodology developed and taught by Robert Lunte and I have greatly benefitted from it. Now, I want you to benefit greatly from it. Check it out and you will not be disappointed.
All the courses are here.
All the best and enjoy practicing!