So you've been taking singing lessons for months - maybe even years. You've been pretty damn dedicated to it and you've practiced your ass off doing lip trills, slides, exercises and scales over and over again; but with your lack of progress, you're really starting to wonder why some people can't sing?

Maybe my favourite singers are just 'naturals' and I just don't have it... whatever "it" is?

Maybe my teacher sucks.

Maybe that course I bought was bogus.

Maybe I just have a bad voice and I'll never be a good singer.

These were all questions that I personally had when I first started learning how to sing.

In fact, I took singing lessons for almost a decade while still wracked with these very same doubts.

... Because I just wasn't getting any better.

And I wasn't even that young at the time either, I was about 30 when I came to the realisation that something had to change - or I was going to be in this same position in another ten years at 40 with zero range and a strained voice, not to mention empty pockets too.

But instead of questioning whether I really had what it took to become a good singer, or questioning whether my voice just sucked - I started to question the COACHING that I had been receiving.

Don't get me wrong, I obviously went to the teachers that I had chosen for a reason, right? They were all awesome singers.

But when I started asking deeper questions about "why" and "how" and "when" and "what" - I was pretty shocked by the blank looks that I started getting.

Basically, the teachers that I had been going to were "naturals" - which is awesome for them, and more power to them.

But, they lacked basic empathy for the issues that I had been experiencing over and over again.

Someone showed them how to sing lip trills once and they were off like a rocket; but after ten years of practice I was still struggling to do a lip trill for more than 3 seconds without blowing out my lips and losing the trill.

So I started looking for real REASONS for the issues I'd been experiencing.

Answers.

And when I wasn't getting them from someone, I simply moved on and tried to find someone else who really could answer all of these questions for me.

It was like finding a needle in a haystack, but I finally found the solution.

A great mix of anatomy with enough practicality to apply what I was being taught.

Because let's face it, there seems to be two types of coaching out there currently;

a) Just do it more and you'll get better eventually

or

b) Rocket science that can't actually be applied

I definitely came across both over my many years of vocal training - approaches that were so complicated that I really started to question "was Chris Cornell REALLY doing this???" and other approaches that had zero substance beyond "just practice this more and you'll get a bit better".

But there's a better way.

An anatomical reason that you're struggling to learn how to sing, when other singers do a few lip trills and they're headlining Madison Square Garden in 3 months;

VARIABLES.

And there's definitely a LOT of them when it comes to singing.

Think about it, you don't drag your guitar around on the ground behind you all day long as you're catching the bus, as you're going to work, as you're having a shower and when you're at the pub on a Friday night.

But you absolutely DO drag your voice along with you, because we use it for speaking all day long.

Forming bad habits.

Accents.

Strain and tension.

Overuse.

Imbalance.

Not to mention how perception is skewed by differences in culture, personality and even the music you grow up listening to.

In my case, with a thick Aussie accent, a low voice type, and growing up listening to guys like James Hetfield and Danzig blow their voice to pieces grinding through absolutely every note I ever heard them sing.

I was doomed from the start - and you probably have been too.

But there's a better way - a BLUEPRINT for how you voice is really intended to be used.

An instruction manual that sidesteps accent, culture, personality and all the variables that obliterate your potential as a singer.

And all you have to do is watch this video to learn HOW to sing even if you're not a natural: