Singing Tips – Vocal Instruction – Paint a Picture With Your Mind and Trace it With Your Voice
By Al Koehn
How many times have we heard parents, teachers and bosses say (with great emphasis) “WHY DON’T YOU THINK?” I remember,as a kid, wanting to reply: “I am thinking; otherwise I’d be dead.” So the question is: what do you (they) mean when you say this to children, spouses or employees? The answer is: THINK AHEAD. Plan what you’re going to do BEFORE you do it. Don’t make it up after you’ve started. That seems so logical as to be redundant, yet we all are guilty of jumping into things before we imagine the consequences or outcome.
So, what does this have to do with singing?
Just as the great tennis player, dancer or golfer becomes a master of concentrating into the result (they “see” where the ball is going to land..they picture how they will look and feel before they actually dance, dive or skate) the great singer “hears” what they are singing BEFORE they actually sing.
When we speak we obviously have to know what we’re going to say before we say it. In fact, we become masters of this very early in life. This process doesn’t take measurable time, but we do it because we have to.
This same process must be applied to good singing (or any other processes), and although it happens so quickly we don’t even know we are doing it, the fact that we TRY to think ahead will make it happen. By the way: you can’t “think” a song if you don’t know it well. LEARN YOUR SONGS. GET FREE OF THE LYRICS.
The genius of the great singer of any genre of music depends on their increased ability to “look” or “hear” what they are going to sound like before they actually sing. This is much like the fortune teller gazing into her crystal ball to see the future.
This process applies to success in all areas of life. So how do we develop this ability? We practice our songs, making an agreement with ourselves that we will strive to “hear” the results immediately BEFORE we sing.
I have a plaque on my studio wall which says “PAINT A PICTURE WITH YOUR MIND AND TRACE IT WITH YOUR VOICE”. Think about that. Understand it, and use it and your singing will improve and improve.
Al Koehn has spent over 30 years working with top professionals in all aspects of their careers; voice development, performance, recording, producing and managing. His powerful new FREE ebook called “SINGING IS SERIOUSLY SIMPLE: Important Tips, Tools and Techniques for All Singers” is now available for downloading.
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