Singing Tips For When Everything Is Too Difficult

A lot of singers who want to sing more effortlessly in the high range get stuck with the following problem:

• The low range feels so comfortable and easy that they don't feel like it makes their voice better.
• And the upper range is so hard and difficult they can't even approach it to make it better.

It's kind of like if you want to lift weights.  If the weight is too heavy you can't even lift it, so you can't build muscle.  And if the weight is too light, it's to easy and you also can't grow either.

So we need a way to customize the difficulty in a way where we can make:

• The things you find easy more difficult so you can advance more.
• The things you find impossibly hard, easier so you can get your foot in the door.

In this video I give you a peek into what that looks like in the context of helping a student navigate his voice.

He was struggling with running out of air really quickly whenever he tried to sing softly.

His way of trying to deal with the problem was by exposing the issue more.  So he would slow down the scales, and go lower in his range trying to isolate where the problem was beginning.  But what happened was it was just making things harder for him, not easier.  And it burnt him out.  So I showed him how to make his issue easier to deal with while still addressing it (not running away from it).

This is exactly what I help singers do who work with me.  Rather than just showing them how to sing better or fix their problems, I mentor them so they can truly become the master of their own voice and know how to navigate it themselves. If you'd like to learn more about working together please click here.