That’s a wonderful question. I love this question because I am going to enjoy answering it. The answer may surprise you but you can be assured it’s based on how things actually are.
Singing voices don’t peak. In art, one’s ability to become better never ceases and the learning is endless. One doesn’t reach for the end goal of ‘peaking’ in their craft, you can only strive to become better by immersing yourself in your artistic endeavors.
But seriously, peaking doesn’t happen. At all. Period. Allow me to explain in detail.
Singing Voices Don’t Peak
Peaking is the idea that your voice has reached its limit.
This is it.
You can’t sing higher than this. You can’t sing a lower note than this. You can’t sing a higher note than this.
This is it. Right?
Wrong.
If you think you’ve peaked at something, you’ve just discovered a new limit of your abilities. That’s it.
There is always something you could be better at and you can always focus on that to practice next.
That is the wrong way to look at singing altogether because singing voices don’t peak and, there are multiple reasons for that.
For one, most of the people who are out there singing will reach a point in their practice where they are good enough singers.
Of course, most famous singers in bands can always learn to sing better by adopting techniques and practices of other genres and integrating them into their own music.
But they found their little niches and pockets that the band has mindfully limited themselves to.
People know and understand that genre and associate a certain sound with them. These are the kind of songs they make so they are known for it.
Niche Down
You don’t have to niche down.
Your music will do it for you.
You see, when you start o see music as a whole you will realize that even though there are places for you to improve it should not take away the fun of making music.
I always say this, composing is the end goal of learning music. If you are not creating your own music then you have to find a way to make your practice and creativity count for something.
So there is a limit to practicing, you can’t just be all bad you need to practice to an end. If you never want to write Djent music with an odd time signature then you ought not to practice that.
Only exposure and experimentation will reveal what you need to do.
Singing voices don’t peak. You just find a new song or project for your voice to be put to work.
Practice Isn’t Bound by Time
I think this needs to be said to everyone who’s reading this.
If you ever change your mind about learning something new in music at any given time, your ability and discipline to practice will matter the most.
You can always practice specific things much later in your music career. Always. It’s not going anywhere those skills are for you to take and be made yours.
Think about it and take it easy.
Singing is Perpetual
Use your voice.
Singing is perpetual because it allows you, like a language, to create an unlimited amount of sentences.
That is why you learn a language. To have the ability to communicate yourself in various other ways.
You learn singing so that you can sing, not that you can keep on increasing your abilities and so that you can keep on getting better.
No, you come to a point where it is like ok now I can sing now what do I do with my current voice? My range is good. My techniques are good. My abilities are good. My skills are good. I can write songs. Now, it’s time to go and enjoy what you do. That is where the whole idea of singing lies. So, it’s not about peaks. That’s what this article is going to be about. It’s going to be myth-busting.
You can’t think about peaking.
You can only think about being perpetual. Now once you come to this point where you see singing as something that you are going to stay for the rest of your life with.
It’s not a matter of having the best voice in the world because there is no standardized way to measure that. We might have awards and everything for it but guess what, it’s not based on skill.
So, there is no way to gauge an artistic ability.
Peaking would imply to some degree that it’s attainable. It’s not.
Singing is actually perpetual. It is perpetual because you use it endlessly.
How to Decide When to Stop Practicing?
My yardstick of measurement has been my compositions.
I have written another article on how to progress really fast as a singer. I use the same techniques from that article for anything I want to get good at.
To sum it up here, you make a few people whose musical instinct is better than yours and you consider them to be better at music than you (preferably) to review your work. That’s it.
Whether it’s bad or good.
If you pass, your practice and all the things that you have shown them are in the green, Perhaps you should write more songs. The same can be said if you are not ready to compose yet. If they approve of your covers, wonderful. Your practice has paid off.
So when your practice sounds like a good performance, maybe time to check out some other avenues of music or even life.
I did that, once my songs started to sound decent to other people I ventured into learning a little bit about 3D animation. It was wonderful and is still wonderful.
Just saying, take it easy.
Learning How to Sing
The final I would like to say to you is that invest in at least one online course. I have written extensively about it here. You’ll find there are very few cons to having one and many pros.
I think everyone can benefit from them. So without further delay, I would like to tell you about the course that I personally own ‘The Four Pillars of Singing’ by Robert Lunte. I think this is the course you should go for. Check it out at your own pace and then decide but I would suggest getting this one.
Robert Lunte has many other courses under the guise of ‘The Vocalist Studio’ and you can find them all here.
I hope you have a great day and that this article has helped you understand something you didn’t before!