If you can do just two things,
- Your voice won’t crack and
- You won’t strain your voice.
What else? You will have more endurance, more range, and more power in your singing.
How Do I Do Those Two Things?
What looks like talent or genius is more often practice.
Practice is repeating the right thing, the right way, and for long enough to improve skill.
“Repetition is the mother of skill.” – Tony Robbins
If you don’t practice the right things, the right way, you will get worse! Sad, but true.
Knowing how and doing are not the same things!
Golf
I know the basics of how to hit a golf ball. I had lessons with professionals. I practiced, but not very much.
On the green, I’m okay with putting.
Getting to the green is the problem, because I don’t hit the ball straight on the drives. I changed my grip and that didn’t help. I kept my left arm straight on the backswing, right one straight on the swing, kept my head down, staring at the ball, used the same grip and voila! The ball curved off to the right. Over 100 strokes on a nine-hole course is terrible.
Without the repetition, there is no skill.
Other Sports
You must practice to be good or great at anything and everything.
I am okay at racquetball and terrible at tennis.
I am okay at football and terrible at basketball.
Why? Practice or little or no practice. Insufficient to improvement, was my practice.
Knowing how and doing are two different things.
Knowing how to sing without practicing will make for guaranteed mediocrity.
Is singing a sport? Part of it is. You use your body and your mind and the mind can know but the body must practice what the mind knows because why?
Because, “Repetition is the mother of skill.”
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