In the music industry today, you'll notice that there's more variety of singers coming out to make a name. With this, it makes a lot of people think about when and how an aspiring singer should start discovering her own singing voice. Is there a concrete blueprint in freeing your voice to learn how to sing?
Before, to be able to attend a formal singing voice lessons, you'd have to be a girl, ages 8 to 13... or a boy, ages 10 to 15. But today, many younger children, even at the age of 4 can now attend these lessons to hone a pretty wonderful singing voice that they already have.
Singing voice instructors teach their students in two different categories. The categories are: pre-pubescent stage and the post-pubescent stage. These guidelines are usually taught to those young students, which lessons are often times short and simple as well. This is in consideration to the level of stamina the younger students can put into singing voice lessons and the level of understanding that they can provide.
When they are being taught about their singing voice, they do not need to know the technical terms of the muscles in the throat or stomach that they need to condition for their singing. The students need to be directed with an age appropriate repertoire and sound.
Selecting age appropriate songs is important in teaching singing voice lessons to younger students. But because the younger students have a much higher voice than the adult students, selecting sound appropriate songs that young students can make is important as well.
For students who still have guardianship by their parents, there also has to be management of parental expectations when it comes to their singing voice. There are some teachers that will teach only for the money, but the excellent teachers are the ones that teach only students who love to sing and not students whose parents are making them. Sometimes this is not so apparent in the beginning but greed will definitely show its head in no time flat.
Before, to be able to attend a formal singing voice lessons, you'd have to be a girl, ages 8 to 13... or a boy, ages 10 to 15. But today, many younger children, even at the age of 4 can now attend these lessons to hone a pretty wonderful singing voice that they already have.
Singing voice instructors teach their students in two different categories. The categories are: pre-pubescent stage and the post-pubescent stage. These guidelines are usually taught to those young students, which lessons are often times short and simple as well. This is in consideration to the level of stamina the younger students can put into singing voice lessons and the level of understanding that they can provide.
When they are being taught about their singing voice, they do not need to know the technical terms of the muscles in the throat or stomach that they need to condition for their singing. The students need to be directed with an age appropriate repertoire and sound.
Selecting age appropriate songs is important in teaching singing voice lessons to younger students. But because the younger students have a much higher voice than the adult students, selecting sound appropriate songs that young students can make is important as well.
For students who still have guardianship by their parents, there also has to be management of parental expectations when it comes to their singing voice. There are some teachers that will teach only for the money, but the excellent teachers are the ones that teach only students who love to sing and not students whose parents are making them. Sometimes this is not so apparent in the beginning but greed will definitely show its head in no time flat.
About the Author:
Skyler Jett, a prolific singer, songwriter and producer, shares share his tips about freeing your singing voice. Learn how to sing with Skyler, Patti Austin and friends at http://howtosing.org.
