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The
Samurai & the Sword of Sesame Street
EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED
FROM SESAME STREET
GEOGRAPHY:
"Anywhere I am is HERE. Anywhere I am not is THERE."--Grover
LIFE:
"I guess it's better to be who you are. Turns out people like you
better that way, anyway."--Big Bird
“Why the two quotes?” you ask, and what does a samurai have to do with
any of this? I have found that many singers approach their voice,
and their voice training, as though their voice is eventually going to
be “good enough” to stop training. Worse still, some singers
think that “someday, when I’m a great singer, it will make me who I
always wanted to be.” WRONG. BAD IDEA. In fact, both
of these are the complete opposite of what’s really true; you
already are a good enough singer and you already are who you want to be
and your voice really has nothing to do with it. Like Big Bird
says, it’s better to sing like you sing because people, including YOU,
like you better that way. HERE, exactly where you are with your
singing, is the only place there is. There is nowhere “there” to
get to with singing. So, why the samurai? A true samurai
continues to train, no matter how good they are, for their entire
life! It doesn’t matter how perfect their skills are, they
keep training. That’s what singers do. Every big name
singer you know whose recordings you own has a voice coach, whether
they admit to it or not. (And I know because I know some of their
voice coaches!) The really good pro’s have MORE than one
coach. Professional opera singers have five or six coaches, all
at the same time, to be able to do what they do.
Does that mean you have to run out and immediately start taking voice
lessons? NO! But it does mean that thinking of your voice
as something you will always train makes it easier, just like the
samurai that can already handle six attackers while he’s
blindfolded. Training is something you always do because there’s
NOWHERE to get to, and so you never finally “arrive.” You just
sing, as you are NOW, and keep doing it forever! Your voice has
already arrived!
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