Being a type A can be a huge blessing for a singer. It can help make that person more goal oriented, learn roles more quickly, meet deadlines, network more effectively. The ability to break down any large task into smaller components is a good one. however there is a problem with being a type A and a singer. Type A's are often results oriented, and quite impatient. But learning to sing is a process and doesn't happen overnight. Marketing claims of "learn to sing in 60 days!" or even the title of this post can grant huge promises and almost zero returns.
Truthfully the easiest way to learn to sing is to work as hard as you possibly can, systematically eliminating extraneous tensions and extra brain noise that is holding you back from achieving your goals. Yes, the goal is to achieve the best vocal quality you can, but you cannot achieve that if all of your measurements are qualitative. You must have quantitative goals that can be easily measured for instance,
your goals might be:
Be able to hiss for 20 seconds continuously
be able to suspend your breath with 10 seconds without closing the vocal folds
be able to hit "note x" without flexing the sternoclaudomastoids or allowing the larynx to raise
don't allow any glottal offsets
These things can be easily measured. If you give yourself goals like these it is not hard to know where you stand in terms of progress.
However if your goals are, "I want my high C to sound good" or " Sound better" or "feel this emotion here" Your ability to measure the result is severely hindered and thus your ability to know your progress is limited.
Quality CAN be quantified
Next time you practice, measure yourself, that way you can be sure you are growing.
Keep growing
Larz the Larynx
"Life is easy when you live it the hard way"-Dave Kekich
Truthfully the easiest way to learn to sing is to work as hard as you possibly can, systematically eliminating extraneous tensions and extra brain noise that is holding you back from achieving your goals. Yes, the goal is to achieve the best vocal quality you can, but you cannot achieve that if all of your measurements are qualitative. You must have quantitative goals that can be easily measured for instance,
your goals might be:
Be able to hiss for 20 seconds continuously
be able to suspend your breath with 10 seconds without closing the vocal folds
be able to hit "note x" without flexing the sternoclaudomastoids or allowing the larynx to raise
don't allow any glottal offsets
These things can be easily measured. If you give yourself goals like these it is not hard to know where you stand in terms of progress.
However if your goals are, "I want my high C to sound good" or " Sound better" or "feel this emotion here" Your ability to measure the result is severely hindered and thus your ability to know your progress is limited.
Quality CAN be quantified
Next time you practice, measure yourself, that way you can be sure you are growing.
Keep growing
Larz the Larynx
"Life is easy when you live it the hard way"-Dave Kekich
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