Why Your Singing Isn't Improving

hey what's up it's Nicola Milan and welcome back to another singing tutorial now if you're finding that your singing just is not improving and you're trying everything that you can and you're singing heaps and heaps but you're still not seeing an improvement there's actually usually one very good reason why this is happening and that's what we're going to look at in today's video so the reason that you may not be seeing any improvement has nothing to do with the type of voice you have what you're singing where you live who you are any of those sorts of things it usually comes down to how you are practicing and this is a very unglamorous side of singing now practice is where you will spend 90% of your time as a singer it's not performing it's practicing and practice is where you can achieve the most improvement now if you're the type of person that puts on your favourite backing track or you sing along to a singer and you just sing over the top and you sing in the exact same way every single time I mean yes you may be trying to learn different songs and things like that but if you're not actually working on specific techniques or if you haven't identified errors of import like areas of improvement that you need to work on in your voice and you're just singing the same thing over and over again of course you are not going to improve the first thing that you need to do is to identify areas that you need to work on within your voice or how you deliver your songs it may be that you have to faster vibrato or you may find that you need to work on your vocal strengths or you may find that you're slightly flat in your singing whatever it is that you need to work on pick that one thing and then practice that and this is where it gets really hard because you've got to practice the things that you're not very good at and this is where a lot of singers fall down because it's hot and you don't sound good because when you're practicing like off often you know you you just want to sound great as a singer you want to do the fun stuff you want to sing something Belson's out amazing but you know when you're practicing in order to improve sometimes you have to sound pretty bad in order to get better and this is especially true if you're trying to break old singing habits so I mean my piano practice is actually a perfect example for this so now it's not singing but it's pretty much the exact same thing so I'm very good at playing this particular style of like a root note in the bass a chord in the left I'm in the right hand and just singing over the top [Music] so it's quite easy for me to sing and play that way that I am learning this new style of playing which does everything that I was just doing men with one hand leaving the other hand free to do twiddly bit so it's a lot more difficult because you I have to kind of think about my inversions you know like what notes my playing see I stuff that up as [Music] it's a lot harder for me a lot harder but I know that I have to get crappier and work through that in order to get better and it's the exact same thing with your singing and it takes patience so breaking that down into two steps first step identify areas that you need to improve within your singing and then step two is to practice those areas and yes give yourself a bit of time to realize that you're gonna suck for a while and it's gonna sound a bit nasty but you don't have to practice like you don't have to do the whole practice session of sounding nasty just you know work on that technique for about 10 minutes and then try and employ that technique within your singing so the big problem with singing moreso than anything else I think is muscle memory I mean you get muscle memory when your fingers and everything as well when you're playing the piano but as a singer it's really all about muscle memory like where you're placing we're holding a time way you know you're projecting your sound in your voice how much space you're creating within your mouth which is all kind of to do with how you're using the muscles within your head basically and if you are constantly doing the same thing wrong every single time so let's just say you do 10 minutes of singing practice and you really work on your breathing and then you go back to sing again and then you just forget everything then you're you're kind of undoing the work that you've done on good muscle memory so you've kind of even though you only have to spend ten minutes of intensive practice you do then need to try and remember what it is that you've practiced in your technique and take that across into your songs to reinforce those good vocal habits so I think that's probably the one of the hardest things is being a singer but yeah those are basically the two steps to start seeing improvement it's all about how you practice I hope that's cleared up a lot of things for you if you enjoyed this video please give me a thumbs up and subscribe for more singing tutorials and I have 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Id: VDzOcnJHdAM

Length: 7min 15sec (435 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 18 2020