Art is meant to be beautiful. Singing is beautiful. There needs to be a history attached to it and there needs to be a grand performance to showcase talent!
Singing is an art form because people study and practice it. Like other art forms, it has a very long history and is found in every culture to be very important. Singing is also one of the ways we express ourselves through performing it. It has all the things required to be an art form.
Like all other art forms singing shares all of these things with them. Let’s read on ahead to know more about it.
Because You Practice It
All art forms require practice to get better at them.
It doesn’t matter whether it is dancing or music or any other artistic endeavor or even painting for that matter because what is common among all art forms is that there is the practice required.
If you think about it, practice is how we become better at anything whether we talk about becoming a better painter, getting better at drawing, sculpting, dancing, and yes even singing.
To the point where learning any such art forms has such a deep impact on you as a person that it makes you more disciplined, which in other areas of your life is very helpful, especially with singing.
This is so because it is not only a matter of just showing up for practice and doing it, it is a matter of getting better at it at a consistent rate.
Having that kind of discipline in your life is amazing. If you notice all of these art forms, they have this kind of discipline ingrained in them.
If you look at the masters and ask them how much they have practiced over the course of their life, you will notice that most of them have put in a lot of hours. Some of them even go up to 20,000 hours which makes them a master of the craft.
This of course has been derived from the 10,000-hour rule which means that in order to become proficient at anything you need to put in 10,000 hours at it (and 20,000 to become a master).
If you would want to read further then I would suggest that you read ‘Deep Work’ by Cal Newport. It talks about productivity in general and it’s a wonderful book to have.
Because You Study It
The other thing that makes singing an art like all other art forms is that there is a study of it; including there is a history to learn, look at and appreciate.
Think about it, there is a great history in the painting world which we have commonly known as art history and the same is true for literature as well.
The idea of writing has changed so much throughout the centuries that we divide literature and paintings into centuries and we do the same with music as well.
Considering different periods in which music was composed will give you a sense of what kind of music and how distant it was according to its relevant era.
Going on further there are colleges for every art form and the same is true for music.
In the case of singing, every major music college in the world which is even remotely famous will at least have a course for singers.
Now, I have written extensively about whether or not you should talk about going to a music college, to begin with, but you can read that here. That is for another article altogether.
What I want to show you is that even though the art form is not only ancient, it is still relevant in today’s times as it has survived modern times and has found its way into modern colleges. So it should definitely be an art form that you can study.
Because You Perform It
Like all other art forms, it’s performed.
In order to perform it, you must have the required expertise and the prerequisite practice. Performances in singing are seen at every level of music and by that I mean it doesn’t matter if you are in a band or in a college or if you are singing by yourself, the idea of singing is not just to learn it and not do it.
The idea of singing is that you learn it, you practice it, you master the techniques and the skill and then you go out and perform it in one way or another so that you are able to show the world what you can do with your voice.
Like every other art form, we only appreciate the things that have been published. It is believed that most of J.S, Bach’s compositions were lost and we only have about 10 to 11% of his real work that has survived to date.
J.S. Bach has been considered one of the best composers that have lived in the baroque era, to the point where the end of baroque era ended with his death.
See that’s how it has come back to being history, just like every other art form.
It Allows You to Express It
So like any other art form singing is also a medium of expression.
This means that once you have learned it and you are able to sing and perform and do all of these things together, what you are actually doing is expressing yourself in a way that has never been done before by anyone else; especially if you are performing an original composition.
In many forms, it is like a language because when you look at a painting and you realize that something is happening. Very famous paintings can go very deep and they can show details that can only be seen when you are paying attention or you know what the intentions of the painter were.
So, it is the same with singing, to the point where the singer is able to communicate with the audience exactly by the words they are singing, and that in itself is quite beautiful.
This is how singing is an art form because you practice it, study it, and perform it. Once we have done all of those things and have mastered a little bit of singing and then it allows us to express ourselves.
You might be wondering how you can get better at singing yourself.
There are numerous ways to learn how to sing but on this website, I promote only one method of learning how to sing.
Online Courses for The Win
Online courses are amazing and I have covered them and their benefits to you in this article here. Make sure you glance over it.
Without further delay I would like to tell you about my personal favorite online singing course, ‘The Four Pillars of Singing’. This is it, the one-stop-shop course for all your singing needs so that you can just go, buy it and start to learn how to sing, today.
But if you’d like to be spoilt with more and more choices, I would suggest you check this page out as this will allow you to become more and better proficient at specific things, if that is what you wish to do so.
This mixed with your practice routine, I am sure you will become a really good singer in no time!