Do you really need to sing for 10,000 hours to become a better skill like some people say? Of can you learn how to sing better in 5 minutes?

Think about your favourite singers - for me, that's rock singers like Paul Rodgers or Chris Cornell - now, Paul Rodgers was the tender age of about 15 or so when the first FREE record was released in 1968, and he's rightfully known as "the voice of rock" and universally revered as a seriously great singer.

Considering Paul Rodgers only started singing as a teenager in the first place, how exactly do you think he could have possibly spent 10 THOUSAND hours chipping away at those world renowned rock vocal skills?

Well, he didn't.

Chris Cornell was about 20 years old on Ultra Mega Ok, the first Soundgarden record - same deal, how could someone who was actually a drummer to begin with, and only go up to sing in front of the band because they lost a singer - go on to become such a fearfully accomplished rock singer, arguably one of the greatest heavy rock and high range male singers in a generation?

Again, how exactly did the "10,000 hour" idea play into his success as a singer? The singing on "Beyond the Wheel" from that first Soundgarden record is pretty ridiculously intimidating, even by my standards - and he'd really only been singing for a year or two at that point.

Well, he didn't.

That's because it doesn't take 10,000 hours to learn how to sing well - it just takes the right CHOICES.

Paul Rodgers consistently makes the right CHOICES as a singer, right down to vowels, tone and frequencies - and it's the same as Chris Cornell in his prime; all the right choices through all of those incredible Soundgarden records up to around Superunknown - and then those choices began to change as his style changed, leading to a dip in his abilities and vocal health.

The key here is to first work out what the most appropriate sound to be making in the range your singing in really is, and then work out how to color that sound in the right way so that it rings, pings and resonates like crazy.

This might take a little practice, but honestly - if you can hit that vowel in the right way, you absolutely can learn how to sing better in 5 minutes, all it takes is understanding how to sing your vowels correctly.

After all, your vowel is a frequency at the end of the day, and this frequency is derived from the frequency with which your vocal folds vibrate (your 'pitch') - so, if your vowel is derived from your pitch, and your pitch CHANGES as you ascend, then the vowel needs to shift to match these changing frequencies - right?

It's super easy;