Learning how to sing is TOUGH work - what is singing so hard?

Not physically, because singing itself is ultimately a pretty simple skill - you've seen your favourite singers nail those high notes with ease night after night, yet you're struggling like a pack mule with it's legs tied together trying to drag your voice up a mountain.

It's a pretty shit feeling to be so bad at something you love so much.

I totally hear you - because that's exactly where I was about ten years ago.

Worse still, I'd actually been taking singing lessons at that point for the ten years PRIOR to that - so ten years of weekly singing lessons just to be stuck right back at square one all over again, straining and struggling, constantly asking myself WHY.... WHY... WHY is singing so HARD?

So what exactly changed for me as a singer - going from struggle city and strain town, and sailing right into voice coach territory where I'm coaching other singers all around the world to reach the crazy heights of range and power that I now enjoy in spades?

It's a weird story, so bear with me for a minute - this might just change your life.

It definitely changed mine.

So here's the thing - initially, I had about zero interest in even being a singer.

I was a guitarist.

Guitar was really my first love.

And instead of going to class in highschool, or going skating with my friends, or chasing girls - I sat in the music room and just played guitar over and over and over again.

And gosh darn it, I actually got pretty GOOD at playing guitar.

Practice makes perfect, right?

So when we continually failed to find a singer for our band - I figured, "how hard can this whole singing thing really be??"

But it WAS hard.

I strained.

I struggled.

I blew out my voice three songs into the set.

And practicing more simply didn't help - it just wore out my voice more and more.

So I started taking singing lessons.

At first, I was admittedly a pretty bad student who didn't practice much, argued with my teacher about this tip, that tip, or this technique that I'd seen somewhere "but this guy say BLAH BLAH".

I was my own worst nightmare as a student these days.

But eventually, the passion was ignited for singing in the same way it had been for guitar many years early.

Except I absolutely SUCKED at singing.

Seriously.

It was like someone stepped on the tail of a cat with a booming deep voice - if that's an image you'll ever be able to get out of your head.

I definitely wasn't a natural singer like I'd been a natural guitarist.

This shit was HARD. (the picture on the right was me in a nutshell during even the lightest exercises or lip trills)

But why is singing so hard?

I kept asking my teachers over and over again - drilling each new warmup or exercise they gave me like my life depended on it.

But I never saw any progress.

Until I met my final vocal teacher, who sat me down, laughed in my face with disbelief and said "Man, you absolutely SUCK - you've seriously been singing for TEN years??"

Don't worry, I wasn't offended - this is the kind of blunt honesty you'll get from most older-school Aussies. There's no point dancing around the truth and wasting everyone's time, right? Just get it out there.

He proceeded to point out absolutely EVERY flaw in my approach - and boy were there a LOT of them.

You're doing this wrong, that, this, the other thing - you're not even DOING this, and I can see you've just got no idea about A, B, C, D" <- that kind of thing.

But I wasn't actually depressed about it, I was truly EXCITED.

Because finally, finally, someone had an ANSWER for my question - Why is singing so hard?

And it's ultimately because my foundation as a singer sucked.

For many different reasons.

My accent.

My lower voice type.

The rock and metal music I grew up listening to.

My personality and the way I spoke.

My speaking voice habits.

The years of coaching I'd had prior.

And we proceeded to go through absolutely every single aspect of my voice - mastering each concept and technique along the way before skipping on to the next.

I think his favourite thing to say to me was "I don't want to see you in my studio again until you've mastered this technique"

He took joy in giving me the challenge.

Reverse psychology I'm sure - otherwise I just have no explanation for such cruelty of a desperate singer like I was... (I'm only half joking there, I could never work out whether he was being serious or not)

And what we ended up with was a "Blueprint" for my voice.

An "instruction manual" for how my voice worked, how the vowels worked, the tonality, the register shifts.

This thing was immense.

A touch on the confusing side to begin with.

But little by little I started unraveling the mystery of what I found singing so hard to begin with, and why I wasn't getting better through all of those years of vocal training.

And now it just all makes SO much sense.

This blueprint absolutely changed my life as a singer, and I'd love to share it with you so you can see the same crazy gains and success that I've finally found as a singer who once struggled, strained, yelped and yelled like you're probably doing right now.

This really is the light at the end of the tunnel for you.

So let me tell you exactly how I turned all of this around, and went from a struggling low-voiced guy to the super pro vocal prowess you'll see in my "before and after" video below.

Best of all, add your details below that and I'll give you my own personal vocal blueprint; the "instruction manual" for how your voice really works - this blueprint has absolutely changed my life as a singer and is the result of 20 years study and also the 10 years of expertise I have developed as a professional voice coach.

Watch the video below: