Does singing lessons really work for your voice?

Cheap recording device have a poor recording and sound output quality anyway, so the ONLY TRUE and HONEST feedback comes from a fully trained vocal teacher after an OFFLINE one-on-one audition. Then again, you are now hearing your voice completely outside of your skull for the first time, so it IS supposed to sound different, just because now you are hearing your voice WITHOUT any resonance from your skull bones and cavities. Besides, NO-ONE is a born singer!

All one has to be able to do beforehand is to carry a tune and the rest will follow during OFFLINE one-on-one lessons with a GOOD vocal teacher. And, proper development takes SEVERAL YEARS anyway, so you NEED to be VERY patient with yourself as well.

Voice lessons work, but they aren't magic. They don't work instantly, and not everyone starts on the same level. While it certainly is vital that you find a GOOD teacher who can work with you one-to-one, and face-to-face, SOME natural ability or inherited vocal characteristics can come into play.

A 5-foot tall man can learn to play basketball with great skill, but NO amount of coaching or practice will ever make him TALLER, where height does make it easier to do certain things in the game, like slam-dunk a ball. There are also clumsy, slow 7-footers who would make TERRIBLE basketball players. Singing is very physical.

It involves learning to use a lot of body parts in a very specific, coordinated way to produce beautiful, healthy sounds. Singing is also an art. If you go see a musical play, there will be actors whose on stage performances rivet you in your seats, and tap into every emotion.

Then you get the soundtrack recording, done in studio where they can even have a chance to fix errors they have to "go with" live, and suddenly you realize that same actor may not really be all that wonderful to LISTEN to. Unless it's opera, even the lead parts don't necessarily go to to the best SINGER, but to the best actor or performer. Of course, they have to be good enough singers so you don't get distracted by wildly off-key or annoying vocals.

Furthermore, most professional singers of this type would have had voice training, since they need to learn to sing in a way that allows them to be emotionally expressive without wrecking their vocal cords in the process. Of course, all of this is really over-simplified, but my point is, that you can only train the voice you got from nature. However, often you don't even KNOW what your voice is really like, and what it can do until you have studied very hard for a very long time with the best voice teacher you can find that fits your time and budget (I'm talking years, not a couple of months).

It's VERY important that a new student, especially one with little or no singing experience, go into lessons with an open mind. The goal should be to sing better, not sing like your favorite singer. Age also is a big determining factor of what you should be learning and when.

An 8 year old would not be taught to sing as same as a young teen. There is only 3 years difference between someone 13 or 14 and someone who is 17 or 18...but its still a BIG difference. An 18 year old shouldn't beat himself up for not sounding 30.

A 60 year old first-time voice student also would have special issues. This is one of the reasons just getting a book or video to "teach yourself" to sing, doesn't work even if you manage to find a book or video that has valid information. "One size" does NOT fit all.

There are too many individual variables that must be taken into consideration when designing lessons for a certain pupil. A face-to-face teacher is also there to catch mistakes before they become habits, and to give encouragement when you're on the right track but think you are a talentless slob because learning to sing can be very, very hard. MOST people should be able to learn to sing in tune with a relatively pleasant tone.

And not to pop more of your balloons, but being able to match individual pitches does not necessarily mean you can sing those pitches accurately in an actual SONG. The eventual goal of any training is not to just sing "tones" or "hit" high notes (or low notes), but to sing SONGS and sound good.

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