Singers Are Not Born. They Are Made – The Top Myth About Singing
It is very ordinary for someone to consider that they weren’t meant to be a singer – they just “weren’t born with it.” There is a fundamental group of individuals to blame for this myth: the ignorant.
For someone to say “singing is something you have to be born with” is like saying “soccer skills are something you have to be born with.” Tell Maradona that it is something you have to be born with. I think you all know this. Michael Jordan got Disregarded from his high school basketball team.
He didn’t take that very well so he set about rehearsing all day every single day. Then he made the squad. Then he gained a place on one of the most honorable college basketball game squads in the nation. Then he was drafted to the NBA and went down in history as one of the greatest to ever play the game. Basketball skills aren’t something you have to be born with, and neither are musical skills.
Anybody can learn how to sing.
There is something else to blame: the modern culture’s hit show “American Idol.” The show is DESIGNED for entertainment, it is a BUSINESS. How do they get money? They sell all of the raw vocalists to America as a kind of amusement. Also realize that those vocalists are specifically chosen due to the fact that they are the worst case scenarios of singers who don’t know how to apply their voice and have no control over pitch. That can be changed.
Back to the uneducated. Individuals who don’t recognize anything about singing will articulate that all of those awful American Idol auditioners are tone deaf. If you reckon they are all tone deaf then I am happy you are reading this. They aren’t tone deaf. They just don’t know how to employ their voice. Tone deafness is in reality very unusual. The real trouble is a lack of vocal cognition. I was in the same spot as those “tone deaf singers.” Anybody who saw me sing would right away point the finger and mark me as “tone deaf.” I am NOT tone deaf. When I met Peter, he took me through some pitch rating practices and it was clear that I am not tone deaf at all – I just didn’t recognize how to use my voice. I could hear the melodic phrase and pitches utterly clear IN MY HEAD, but as soon as I tried to translate it into vocals, I didn’t know HOW to do it – therefore it SEEMED as if I was tone deaf.
So the next time you discover a singer that you would pronounce as “tone deaf,” think again. They probably just don’t know how to use their voice.
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