Is it hard to get good at motorcycles? Or is it hard to walk? Or was it once was and no longer is? Good thing we are not philosophers here because we can’t and won’t ponder on this question all our lives.
It’s not hard to get good at singing at all. With a decently planned out practice routine and consistency, one can become good at a decent pace. Allowing ourselves to believe that it’s possible for us to become better is the beginning of becoming better.
I wish I was wrong but I am not. How do I know? Because I picked up singing after learning how to play the bass. So, yeah I might’ve had a little musical background but I had to start from the beginning regardless.
Mental Shift
I suggest that when you’re reading this article you should read with an open mind. I started writing this blog to help people improve their singing not just with ‘what’ and ‘how-tos’ but with practical advice that I can give to someone to act upon.
This allows common everyday people to improve something they like because I have been on the quest to improve my voice as well and now I can share all of my experience with you.
Speaking of, I don’t agree with the question at all.
It’s Actually a Spectrum
Getting good at something is a spectrum. Imagine a pro singer having difficulty with singing a major scale or singing a single note. Nope, never happens. In actuality, they will get in front of the stage and sing like a pro and make it seem like what?
Effortless.
How? How do they perform, and the way they perform can seem so effortless? And you can’t?
The answer is obvious, they’ve made something extremely hard make extremely easy for them to do.
A marathon runner will outpace and outrun me any day, what’s hard for me is child’s play for that person. How? Same thing.
They made something extremely hard to make extremely easy for them.
They do this by practicing it.
The Basics Have to be Easy
The beginning of anything must be easy. If you had to hypothetically understand how rockets works you must first at the beginning understand how physics and chemistry work.
Now, that may not interest you but the point I am trying to make is if you had to learn the basics of anything, it can’t be that hard.
The basics of singing and even music are easy. Couple of weeks at best for you to earn the title of a novice. No jokes. Learn to hold the guitar and learn a few chords, same on the piano and singing and you’re not a beginner.
The Spectrum
The spectrum looks like this. The basics are easy and then as you progress through a skill the more technically advanced a technique is the harder it is to master.
But as time progresses, you acquire one skill after another, learning harder and harder skills as you go by. Like a video game.
You find basics something you don’t even think about, and your intermediate skills something you can perform almost with ease.
The Time It Takes
Imagine learning to hold the guitar. Let’s give it a rating of 1 out of 10 in how difficult it is. And let’s give being able to play with multiple techniques a solid 10.
The more you practice holding the guitar right, the easier it becomes. Then you move on to far more advanced skills like picking the right way and learning how to play arpeggios, you practice them enough until that becomes easy.
What you once could never do, you are now able. In your spectrum of difficulty, arpeggios were once impossible. Now they are easy. See? That’s what I meant. It becomes easier with deliberate practice and makes your spectrum of difficulty shift for you.
Remember, the same applies to singing. You might not be able to belt in the beginning but with consistent practice and deliberate effort, you will make it easier for yourself and shift your difficulty spectrum farther and make it easier for you.
Permanency
After doing a decent amount of practice, your ability to perform a certain exercise becomes much easier for you.
But you see, as time goes by, even if someone who used to sing or play the guitar comes back to it after years, they’re still able to do it, they might miss it here and there but they still might be able to do it.
Like swimming, once you learn it, your technique might not be top-notch but you will be able to perform the action regardless. Isn’t that amazing? Your artistic skills are going to be with you for the rest of your life.
That’s why when I wrote this article (why you should learn to sing online with online courses), I really want people to kind of shift towards online learning because everyone should be allowed to learn something they want to regardless of how busy their lives are and online courses allow people to have that freedom.
Bad Habits
But the opposite is true as well and it can cause serious injury if you’re not careful with this one.
If you pick up a bad habit and practice it over and over again, you’re going to perfect it. Again, it can happen with singing just as much as it can happen with anything else.
I did it to my left hand, I was holding the bass wrong. Imagine that. Started hurting and let’s just say I didn’t want to see a doctor for it. My left wrist’s bone pops out a little bit more than my right.
I had to practice very deliberately to ‘forget’ that and better my technique.
How You Can Avoid Developing Bad Habits
The best solution to this problem is obviously never picking them in the first place. You’d be surprised how many you accumulate if you have no one taught you the correct way to do it.
That’s why I recommend online courses. They teach you what you ought to know and how to do it. I have this course and I have benefitted from it tremendously.
If you wanna know which one then I’d recommend you check out this page here.
Whatever you end up picking, I know one thing for sure. You’re going to become a better singer than you were before.