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You Can Be A Singer

It is popular for someone to think that they weren’t meant to be a singer – they just “weren’t born with it.” There is a central group of individuals to blame for this myth: the uneducated.

For someone to say “singing is something you have to be born with” is like saying “swimming skills are something you have to be born with.” Tell Michael Jordan that it is something you have to be born with. You all know the story. Michael Jordan got Disregarded from his high school basketball team.

He didn’t take that very well, so he commenced exercising all day every single day. Then he made the team. Then he achieved a spot on one of the most important college basketball squads in the nation. Then he was draughted to the NBA and went down in history as one of the unsurpassed to ever play the game. Basketball achievements aren’t something you have to be born with, and neither are musical skills.

Anyone can learn how to sing.

There is something else to blame: the popular culture’s hit show “American Idol.” The show is prepared for entertainment; it is a BUSINESS. How do they get money? They sell all of the fledgling vocalists to America as a kind of entertainment. Also, the picture that those vocalists are correctly selected out because they are the worst case scenarios of singers who don’t understand how to apply their articulation and have no control over pitch. That can be changed.

Back to the ignorant. Masses who do not recognize something about singing will state that all of those minor American Idol auditioners are tone deaf. If you suppose they are all tone deaf, then I am happy you are reading this. They aren’t tone deaf. They just don’t recognize how to utilize their voice. Tone deafness is very rare. The serious problem is a lack of vocal cognition. I was in the identical spot as those “tone deaf singers.” Anybody who seen me sing would right away point the finger and label me as “tone deaf.” I am NOT tone deaf. When I met Julian, he took me through some pitch evaluation practices, and it was clear that I am not tone deaf at all – I just didn’t understand how to use my voice. I could hear the melody and pitches clear IN MY HEAD, but as soon as I tried to translate it into vocals, I didn’t know HOW to do it – therefore it SEEMED as if I was tone deaf.

So when you hear a singer that you would label as “tone deaf,” think again. They in all probability just don’t know how to use their voice.

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