Learning how to sing ISN'T just for 'naturals' who were born with it - I was definitely born tone deaf and with a complete inability to sing even the most basic song in tune.

Even when I did get serious about singing and started investing heavily in vocal training, buying courses, taking weekly lessons - even then I was godawful, I just used to shout, strain, blow out my voice and then give up.

... only to be bitten by the 'singing bug' a few weeks later, and again I'd resume my loop of singing lessons, only to find myself straining and struggling all over again in a few weeks time, completely disheartened (and often out of cash!)

Until it was put to me that singing is MUCH more simple than it's made out to be - there's coaches and methods out there that make a killing by overcomplicating what is a ultimately a natural bodily act, just like walking or talking.

Sure, there's a few "ins and outs" that are going to take you miles where the wrong approach will take you backwards, but if I had to pick just THREE things that you could get started with as a singer - yes, even if you're someone like me that absolutely was not a natural to begin with, then it would be these basic steps.

#1 - sing into the back of the head

Wait a minute, don't we sing out of our mouths?

Well, technically yes - but this is more like the opening of the cave, rather than where the sound bounces around inside the cave (I'm kinda proud of that analogy). The truth is, your 'soundhole' as a singer is the back of the throat and up into the head where the soft palate raises up into the pharynx - yes, very similar to the soundhole of an acoustic guitar.

You've probably seen the instruction out there to 'yawn while you sing' or something along those lines - and this is what people are trying to get you to do; raise the soft palate and centre your vowel in the back of the head instead of pronouncing hard at the front of the mouth.

This depends on the vowel of course, but we're keeping things as simple as possible.

Watch this video to learn exactly how to do this and learn the other two simple steps for getting started as a singer;