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Big Lie #9 – To sing with power, especially up high, you need to exert a great deal of physical effort. 

Truth – Your power does NOT come from more force applied. It comes from utilizing frequencies and airflow in the most efficient way. Archimedes said, “give me a long enough lever and I can move the earth itself.” To get vocal power, one uses a figurative form of leverage. When you produce tones in the upper registers the way your voice was designed, you will use LESS airflow and less force than you do on lower notes!  Read more »

Big Lie #8 – Singing is just a skill, like law or accounting, and thus can be educated into someone. 

Truth – Music, especially something as personal as singing, is more than a degree to earn. It is connected deeply to the soul and has the ability to move people on a deeper level than most other “mundane” things on earth. 

This LIE has an opposite which is equally a LIE. There are actually 2 ditches to avoid beside the road! 

One tells you that singing is just a “skill people learn and a degree people earn!” It says that you just have to take the right courses and you can put the diploma on the wall and begin your “practice.” Read more »

Big Lie #7 – It takes great effort and the coordination of many varied muscles to sing correctly. 

Truth – If you are having difficulties right now, chances are, you actually have TOO MANY muscles trying to help! Singing “as designed” is easier than doing it wrong, and gives you more satisfying results. 

A large part of the “difficulty” most people experience in their singing starts inside their own brains. Don’t get me wrong. It’s not ALL in their brains, but it usually starts there. They trick themselves out. It usually happens like this:  Read more »

Big Lie #6 – Either you have talent, and thus CAN sing, or you don’t have talent, and can NOT sing. 

Truth – Since almost everyone can speak, and the speaking mechanism is the same as the singing mechanism, almost everyone can sing–and should, if they desire to! 

This is a “non-technical” lie, but it has affected so many people that you wouldn’t believe it. I meet singers all the time who have spent the better part of their lives wanting to sing, but believing this BIG LIE. 

Of course, I know that NOT all people possess the same degree of singing talent. But the BIG LIE says “Give it up! You shouldn’t sing because you’re not…(fill in the name of any famous singer).”  Read more »

Big Lie #5 – You must develop a strong “falsetto” to sing very high notes. 

Truth – Your voice will make several coordinations, none of which require a great degree of effort. There is the “chest” voice, the “head” voice, and falsetto (sometimes confused with the head voice). Our technique would also add what we call the “mix” voice, which is a mixture of chest and head voices. 

First, let’s identify these voices. 

Put your hand on your chest and say “AAAAh” in your regular speaking voice. Do you feel the vibration of your chest against your hand?  Read more »

Big Lie #4 – You will need special instruction to learn how to breathe correctly for singing. 

Truth – You were born breathing correctly. You’ve continued to breathe. You breathe in, and speak easily on a regular basis. YOU KNOW HOW TO BREATHE ALREADY!

If you feel you are breathing ineffectively for singing, find a baby and watch them breathe. They are doing it just like it needs to be done for singing. In fact, I can tell you how to check yourself, right now. Read more »

Big Lie #3 – It takes years of instruction and practice to develop a respectable vocal range of almost 2 octaves (that covers only 24 notes on a piano keyboard).  

Truth – The human voice was designed to cover well over 3 octaves COMFORTABLY, just by “shifting gears.” It can be learned in less than 2 hours–and mastered and improved for the rest of your life. 

Do you remember the line from the movie about the Watergate scandal of the 70’s? It was “follow the money.” What it meant was, if you find a white-collar crime, and want to know who’s behind it, see where the money flows. Read more »

Big Lie #2 – If you can sing classical style, you can sing anything.

Truth – If you can sing classical, you may still have LOTS of trouble making a “natural” sounding tone.  

In fact, most of the classically-trained singers that end up coming to us, arrive with great difficulties. They come with dissatisfaction and grief AFTER spending a fortune on a classical music degree! I am still amazed at how similar their stories are.  Read more »