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YOUR
REAL VOICE - the vocal ezine for real people
April 16,
2005 #1
FEATURE EDITORIAL
Why
You Should ALWAYS Sing in Your "Real" Voice
Let's begin with a question: would you walk around all day with a
big pebble in your shoe? "No," you say? But why not?
Probably because it's painful, irritating and can injure your foot and
the rest of your leg because it will make you walk funny and favor your
other foot.
Well..... guess what!? Doing anything to artificially alter the
sound of your singing voice is like walking around with a pebble in
your shoe. The regular, natural sound of your speaking voice is
exactly the one we want to work with.
"But I can't possibly sing with my regular voice. I HATE how my
regular voice sounds! That's why I take voice lessons.
Everyone makes fun of my regular voice."
Yes, that's the response that I get from every beginning voice student
who is absolutely clear that the voice they speak with can't possibly
be the same voice they should sing with. But IT
IS! That's why I call it YOUR REAL VOICE. What I mean by
that is the sound of your speaking voice, if you do absolutely nothing
to change it, is exactly the same voice you should be singing
with. The stuff in your body that makes you talk is the exact
same stuff that makes you sing. ANYTHING you do to artificially
alter the sound of your singing voice will injure it, just like the
pebble in your shoe.
So, here's the exercise for the next two weeks:
Pick any song you'd like and sing it, but don't change anything about
your sound, no matter how much you want to. Practice letting the
sound come out exactly as it does. Notice every time that you
want to change something about your sound, and write it down.
Also write down WHY you want to change it.
This is one of the most challenging exercises I give my students.
If you really do the exercise faithfully for two weeks, you will learn
a ton about your singing, and you will be prepared for our next
exercise. Next time, we will pick up where this leaves off and
continue to explore our REAL voice. I will also answer more about
WHY you can injure your voice by trying to alter it.
If you have questions about this article, please email us at info@sing-in-tune.com
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