So you're wondering; "Will singing lessons actually help me sing better?" - Let me preface by saying that I personally took singing lessons for about 8 years.

I mean weekly, dedicated, serious singing lessons for almost a decade from about 1999 to the late 2000's, peppered with a hand full of vocal courses, a box full of singing books and a shelf full of CD's, tapes and DVD's of vocal warmups and routines.

90% of them, and we're talking around 6 to 7 years out of those 8 were absolutely useless.

Pointless.

A waste of time... and money.

Here's something you're not going to hear from a professional voice coach like myself, who has personally been at this as a professional teacher now for over a decade - 90% of the time, singing lessons don't work.

At least not the way you expect them to.

The way they're supposed to.

And there's a bunch of really important reasons why.

I'm not going to give you some bogus "top ten reasons" type post here trying to score traffic or a click from you, I'm going to give you both my own personal experience as a vocal student, as well as my professional opinion as an international, booked out, sought after voice teacher with hundreds of students around the world all using my approach to sing better, sing higher, sing more effectively and ultimately approach learning how to sing in a better way.

Now, the main reason that most of those singing lessons that I took over so many years were basically useless - beyond a few superficial gains and useful exercises like lip trills that kindof kept me afloat through all those pocket-draining years of lessons - is because my teachers were all great singers.

I mean it, they were seriously great.

That's why I went to them in the first place, right?

They were freakin' awesome - they could do the things that I wanted to do, but couldn't personally do myself.

But the problem here, is that the majority of my teachers were what I would now call 'natural' singers - who kindof got the bulk of it naturally, made many of the right choices when it comes to vowels and tone naturally; and took the absolutely most basic path towards becoming seriously great singers because it all just 'worked' for them.

I say that without bitterness, or jealously - obviously, because over my many years of study and training, and subsequent years as a professional voice teacher myself; I've reached a point well beyond what my measly original goals of "just not sucking so much" when I sang.

But you probably see where I'm going with this, right?

I even watched one of the bigger YouTube coaching channels recently literally say "I don't use any of those techniques like vowel modification" - then proceed to sing with modified vowels.

Naturally.

Easily.

He sounded great.

But, he was doing one thing; singing with vowel modification.

But, telling his 100+ thousand followers and students NOT to sing with Vowel Modification, because he really didn't understand what it was, why he was such a great singer, and ultimately won't ever understand why his students don't naturally just "get it" like he does.

Truth be told, I've poached dozens of vocal students from guys like this over the years because people just got sick of being to "just do it better" instead of being shown actually techniques and how to alter their resonant space to modify their vowels properly. You really can't squeeze blood from a stone; and you might even be at that point yourself right now - aren't you just SICK to death of those YouTube singing tutorial videos that show you absolutely NOTHING about singing? It's literally half a vocal cover in a $1000 an hour recording studio, then the guy talking about how great he is, how great you're going to be, and how the answer is in his course.

Does that sound familiar?

It boils. my. fucking. blood.

^ Because I continually fell for it time and time again through my youth, and I see it in my students who come across from many of those popular methods that are all flash, all guru, all buzzwords and ZERO substance.

Here's the thing;

Let's say you want to learn French.

A hot French girl (or chap, whatever floats your boat) who just grew up in France speaking French from when they were a child - offers you French lessons.

You're going to JUMP at the chance, right?

The problem is, you're actually going to end up speaking pigeon French, because she just "did it" from when she was a kid; naturally, beautifully - but, really lacks the understanding of what it's like to be an English speaker by nature, learning French at a mature age, or how to actually teach someone how to speak French with any sort of structure.

Sure, it's cool to take French lessons from a hot French girl.

But, you're probably better off going to the pasty cat down the road who actually grew up in England and moved to France at a mature age, studied linguistics and has actually developed and follows a strict process and structure for teaching others to speak French.

It's much less exciting when you walk into his office, you don't get butterflies when you see him like you would meeting the hot French chick at the local cafe for a cappuccino <- but by god you're going to be a fucking ACE at speaking french.

The poor sucker that fell for the romance is still struggling to order a coffee and keeps getting getting a short black instead of a latte because they STILL suck at French - and will continue to.

And that was me as a vocal student.

I went to the BEST singers I could find.

Natural singers who had been doing it their whole life.

Which seemed logical, right?

But do you know changed my life as a singer the most?

A rather overweight Opera singer who was pushing about 70+ at the time I first met him.

And you know what the very first thing he said to me, basically just after we met and I told him about my goals of wailing D5's like Chris Cornell and grinding like Layne Staley?

"Fuck off kid, I hate rock"

How's that for an affront to my beginners vocal ego?

I like to call his approach to customer service something like "Anti-Marketing".

The fact that I actually came BACK to his studio and basically begged him to work with me, even after such an abrasive response was one of the main reasons he eventually took me on as a student - I was the most determined, annoying SOB he'd ever met.

But most importantly, he answered EVERY single question I'd ever had about singing.

Hell, one of the first songs I took into him for help with was "Spoonman" by Soundgarden.

He remarked something like "totally ridiculous" while proceeding to wail Spoonman EXACTLY like Chris Cornell without breaking a sweat, note for note.

And did I mention he was a 70 year old dude, horribly overweight and had said quite bluntly that he HATED rock music?

Old Rick really knew the voice, had an innate ability to hear WHAT people were actually doing when they sang - not just hear how the sounded, but WHAT they were actually doing.

And down the long dark road of REAL vocal training I went with my grumpy mentor, slowly stitching together my own approach to singing - what I now call "The Vocal Blueprint" that I've now been sharing with singers all around the world just like you for over a decade+ in my first teaching school Bohemian Vocal Studio, and now here at FoundationVocalCourse.com

And I'd love to share it with you so that you can navigate the MINEFIELD of absolutely shite vocal coaching and clickbait BS that sadly saturates the world of voice coaching.

But before I do that, I'd love for you to hear my "before and after" - and this is no regular before-and-after video either, the "before" is actually already after I had been taking singing lessons for nearly 8 years, before my fateful encounter with my final coach who ACTUALLY showed me how to sing, which should hopefully put in perspective the true value of real vocal coaching and the killer approach that I'm about to share with you.

Watch the video below to see my Before and After, learn exactly how I turned everything around for myself as s singer - and better yet, add you details below to receive my special Vocal Blueprint; the very blueprint that I've developed over the last 20 years of studying the voice and decade+ of processional experience as a voice teacher.

Watch the video now to learn how YOU'RE going to become a better singer;