Foundation Vocal Course

I started singing in the late 90's at the tail end of highschool - mainly because we couldn't find a good singer for our band.

(That handsome devil on your right is yours truly hamming it up in the recording studio a little while back)

After all, my favourite singers didn't really seem like they'd taken lessons or anything like that, and I just figured "how hard can it REALLY be?"

But honestly, it was fucking impossible.

I strained, struggled, yelled, yelped, whined and shouted my way even through the easiest of lower songs, before realising that there was either something severely wrong with my voice - or maybe there WAS a little bit more to this whole singing thing than I initially thought.

So, I started taking weekly singing lessons, expecting that if I just turned up to the woodshed and practiced practiced practiced like I had done so many years earlier with the guitar, that I'd be Freddie Mercury in no time.

But it never happened.

In fact, looking back - I think I actually ended up as a WORSE singer after ten years of vocal training than when I'd started.

And over the many years since I've discovered the REAL way to learn how to sing like a maniac, I've realised from many of my students all over the world that this is sadly VERY common.

And there's a great reason why.

Actually, it's a TERRIBLE reason - but it's a big one:

Naturally good singers make awful voice teachers.

There, I said it.

If you didn't struggle to learn how to sing yourself, then you just have NO business teaching other people who are currently struggling how to sing - because you just. don't. get. what. they're. going. through.

None of my teachers did.

In hindsight, the signs were really there, teachers saying things like "really? you can't do that??" and "just do it more and it'll get better" or "you've gotta push through the pain" - should all have been big warning sings for me, but let's face it; I was pretty green as a singer.

My final vocal teacher actually laughed at me a bit when I told him that I'd actually been taking singing lessons for nearly ten years before walking through his doors.

"REALLY? But you suck so bad! No way you've been singing for that long!"

(don't worry, it's just an Aussie thing - I wasn't offended..... much)

This blunt honesty was actually really refreshing. Having someone tell me the TRUTH about what was going on was just a game changer for me.

You're doing this wrong, you're doing that wrong, you're not even doing this, and you've got no idea about this other thing too.

That kind of thing.

Honestly, it changed my life.

And in the process of working through each every single little element of my instrument, we designed what I've come to call a "blueprint" for my voice, and it's what I share with every single singer who now comes through my vocal studio doors.

The instruction manual for your voice.

The Vocal Blueprint.

It basically does what it says on the box - if you're struggling in a certain range, with a certain vowel sound on a specific word, then you need to sing it in A, B, C, D ways to make sure you're using your voice with peak efficiency.

THIS is the true key to learning how to sing better - but it's usually dripped out in such a chaotic way that you never really know you've received it.

Most of this stuff is actually pretty straightforward.

The vowels, placement, tonality, support - this stuff can be learned in a matter of days or weeks.

The truth is, every single technique, term, trick and concept out there relates back to just one of these four simple vocal fundamentals;

• Forward placement
• Mixed tonality
• "All in one flow"
• Height in the vocal tract

And if you don't know what one/any of these mean - then you've just discovered the REAL reason that you've been struggling to learn how to sing.

You've probably been throwing advanced techniques like compression and vowel modification at your voice like throwing a lick of paint at a pile of rubble - it's still going to be total garbage no matter how much you throw a bunch of fancy stuff at it.

Imagine trying to tune an 80's VCR without a manual (I'm showing my age) - it would have been impossible, right?

And that's exactly what learning to sing is like if you don't hold the key in your hands.

And that's why I've sent you the vocal blueprint (haven't got it yet/landed here by accident? Sign up for your blueprint here - https://www.foundationvocalcourse.com/pages/how-to-sing-better)

So I mentioned 8 things about singing that EVERY singer needs to know about their voice, and we've actually just talked about every single one of them already, but let me organise the list for you:

1. Learning "how" to sing is much harder than the act of singing itself
2. Naturally great singers make shite vocal teachers
3. Practice doesn't make perfect when it comes to singing, it's all about "perfect practice"
4. You need blunt honesty from your teacher, not a best friend that wraps everything in kittens, flowers and mystique. If you can't get a real answer from someone, they simply don't HAVE the answer you're looking for.
5. There's a specific way that the vocal instrument works - right down to specific ways of singing vowel sounds, resonant space, tonality. And THIS is what you should be working through when you practice - not just blindly hoping that four hours of scales will magically make you a better singer
6. Every single technique, trick, term, technique and concept out there relates to one of the Four Vocal Fundamentals
7. FOUNDATION is king when it comes to great singing - you can't polish a turd, but you can definitely build a bathroom in your newly built fortress of epic strength. Build the base and foundation first, build the walls, support the roof <- this is the only way to build the structure of your voice.
8. All you've gotta do to become a better singer is seize the keys to the kingdom and learn to apply each of the concepts I've shown you in the vocal blueprint. 

Hit the link below to step off the YouTube and Google loop of video after video after video and actually start SINGING better. Less clicking, more singing!