I was a bad singer [here's how I fixed it]


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At this point, you've probably already spent a couple of hundred hours watching YouTube vocal coaching videos, reacts videos and covers trying to fix your voice - you might have gotten a few things here and there that made sense, or even gained you a note of vocal range or two, but nothing that really explains why you're such a bad singer and why none of this stuff works for you.

It's all good if some hyperactive American voice coach who refers to himself by name ever 30 seconds like an evangelist gets something out of singing bright or 'opening' their throat - it just doesn't work for you, right?

I hear you, because none of that stuff worked for me either.

Until I actually learned what it all means and what is REALLY going on in the voice.

A blueprint of sorts for how everything actually functions in your voice.

Did you know that when those guys are singing with an "open throat" on an AH and AA vowel in their demonstrations, they're actually contracting their vowel space into a SMALLER space to create the structural formant needed for that vowel? In essence, "closing" their throat into a small space to ring out the harmonic - not "opening" in the way they seem to think they are?

You can probably see now why none of this stuff has been working for you.

It's being taught to you as throwaway cheats and cheap tricks - when there is real anatomical shifts and changes going on in your voice that you absolutely MUST learn to manage when you sing.

Not to mention the psychology of the whole thing too - it's like you're being told to swerve left when you really need to swerve right, 'open' when you really need to close and sing nasal when there's really no nasal airflow on a correctly sung vowel - it's all becoming clearer WHY you've been feeling like you're just a "bad singer", right?

I feel your pain.

I spent tens of thousands of dollars on these kinds of singing lessons.

An hour of lip trills every week.

Advice to "yawn" before I sang, and to "smile wide".

Even funny animal sounds and insane cartoon exercises.

All with no fundamental basis on how the voice worked other than maybe the coach having done them when THEY were learning - as total naturals to begin with I would bet.

And I came out of it the same bad singer that I was at the start.

The key to learning any skill in it's entirety is to first understand the skill that you're developing.

But we singers often get thrown into the deep end of 'practice' before we've learned the 'theory' and then struggle to really put the pieces together in real songs - because we've been running and running all day long, but have no idea what towards, why or even how to do it properly.

And then you get burned out, or worse, pull a hamstring.

Here's an Alice In Chains cover I recently did here in my teaching studio.

Many moons ago I could barely have sung the first two words of this Layne Staley song without blowing my voice out - and now the whole song is a total breeze using what I'm about to share with you.

We're talking about the voice here - but the premise is the same.

If you put a total learner behind the wheel of a car without telling them how to shift gears, they're going to trash the gearbox, right? And worse still, even if they kindof work it out on their own, they're going to crash the car because they don't know the fundamentals of looking left, looking right, road rules etc.

They might own a car, they might even love going for a drive - but they're just not ready to get behind the wheel of a death machine.

And singers are the same - we're often put behind the wheel of our voices with a pair of blinders on, told to practice weird sounds until we're magically supposed to just "get it" one day on our own.

And this is why I've designed the Foundation Vocal Course Blueprint - a roadmap for your voice.

What if I told you that there was a specific vowel shift, specific tone and specific balance of pressure required to sing in mixed voice? In fact, the TWO different registers of mixed voice, TA-dominant mix and CT-dominant mix?

No?

If you don't understand these absolute fundamentals in your singing voice, then you at least understand why it all hasn't been working for you.

You've basically been stuck in "the vocal matrix" - being fed a reality about singing that just isn't true. "Oh, you just support more" and "open your throat", when in fact the truth is far from these common stereotypes; there are real anatomical shifts and harmonic shifts that NEED to happen in your voice.

And you're only going to find out about them if you take the red pill and step outta the matrix, NEO.

Or, you can take the easy way out with the 'blue' pill and step back onto that YouTube treadmill of video after video after video just telling you the same crap over and over and over again.

Better yet, you can watch the video below and then add your details below to get my free Vocal Blueprint - and red pill the hell outta your voice.


Watch this video to learn how I went from less than octave of range to the seriously pro voice you'll hear in my "before and after" section - using the killer vocal blueprint and free Vowel Modification (video) training that I'm about to share with you! (video not loading? Refresh the page!)

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