Are singing voices being developed? Like an app or something? The answer you’re about to read is going to surprise you but I think by the end of the article you’ll be more educated than you were before.
Singing voices don’t ‘fully’ develop. You just stop practicing after a certain point. There is an infinite amount of lessons and things to master so the end goal of this artistic endeavor is made by you, not by the craft, because the craft in itself, is endless and limitless.
Below I have written the ‘why’ a singing voice can’t ever reach full development. Reading forward, I suggest you read it with an open mind and how fruitful it’ll be to you to know that is no true ‘fully developed’ singing voice.
End Goal of Singing
There needs to be something cleared off before we can go ahead. The idea that a singing voice can be fully developed is kind of a wrong perception of how we sing.
Singing is an art by itself and we find great comfort in hearing a human voice. And to say that a human voice can be developed is false because as an art form (which is what singing is), it will never actually have an end of being ‘fully developed”.
A child who learns to sing singing at a very early age will develop themselves into decent singer as time goes by. Given they were given the correct instruction and knowledge to work with.
But, what do you think is going to happen to the singing voice as time passes by?
And the reality is they are going to sound exactly equal to their ability to sing.
I think there is that is where the misconception lies.
Because when you learn to sing there is a certain structure that needs to follow it. So if the child has learned the basics of singing and learned the correct techniques and the way to correctly practice those techniques then they will carry on to them till the end of their lives.
This logic does not take age as a stressed member. Anyone can do this.
So ‘being developed’ has nothing to do with singing. It’s the quality of time put into practice and how much they’ve understood and internalized things pertaining to singing.
If they continue practicing singing then they will always have that with them.
Of course, I am here so that their needs can be understood.
Master Technique
That the way that singing works is that singers need to train their vocal cords to make sounds. The way they do it is known as technique.
And what you do in practice is you practice your technique to the best of your ability and you do it in what is known as deliberate practice.
Deliberate Practice
Deliberate practice is when you take something that you know that you can’t do yet and you put in the time to make it happen. Since this requires knowledge of how techniques work, when the time comes for you to learn difficult skills you will be able to deconstruct them by yourself and be able to achieve higher and more difficult things.
And that is how every musician learns anything in music. They break down to a point where they are able to do those certain things individually and then they put them together and it sounds like music as a whole.
In singing, this relates to having the correct posture, the correct mouth opening, and of course a great amount of breath work.
When you combine all of these things together that’s when you start to sing well and it has nothing to do with having a voice to develop. It has more to do with how much you have practiced and how well you have utilized your practice time rather than it is at what stage your voice is ‘fully developed’.
So I hope I have made my point clear and if I have not I will repeat it here. You don’t ever reach a point in your life with you can say your singing voice has fully developed.
There will always be more to learn. What matters is how well you can sing, regardless of age, because the amount of practice you have put in will determine how well you sing.
What This Website Can Do For You
Across this website, you will find many resources in which I have talked about how to go about learning, and how to sing one of the most recommended ways is through today’s online courses and you can read about it at the end of the article.
I’ve written extensively about why I believe online courses on the way to go to learn music.
I have written extensively about what 30 minutes of practice each day can do as well.
So if you’re planning to learn singing, I suggest you go through this article can get an understanding of how powerful these small bits of knowledge are because the more you know about something the better you can prepare yourself to do something about it.
The more you know about how the practice works and how singing works, the more will be able to tackle your practice sessions, and that in turn brings you back to online courses.
Online courses bring you all of these things together in one place. As you can imagine an article can only help you so much when it comes to understanding how to sing.
But, luckily there are people out there who have done a really good job of making and packaging a course together for you that you can have access to at all times.
Invest in an Online Course
This is going to prove the single best investment you can do for your singing.
Buying an online course is going to open up a lot of other possibilities and you can read all about it here.
But if you want something more specific then you should definitely get, ‘The Four Pillars of Singing’. This is going to allow you to start learning to sing immediately.
Robert Lunte is the teacher and he has done some amazing work with this course. You can check out all the other courses by him and other teachers at ‘The Vocalist Studio’, here.
Try to invest in at least one of these courses!
Happy learning!