Stop Overcomplicating Your Singing Practice (Here’s What Works)

Today I want to dive into a topic that I see tripping up so many beginner singers.

Stop overcomplicating your singing practice

I recently came a cross a post on Reddit where this person shared their routine. And they would do some breath-work, some lip trills, then some hums, mums and BUHs.

And it even had the sets and reps they had to do.

Now if this is working for you. Keep doing what you’re doing.

But this didn’t work for me personally, and I know for a lot of you this approach might actually back holding you back.

Today I want to explain why and then I’ll highlight a BETTER strategy to crafting your routine.

And I’ll share some example routines from my students that are really only 2-3 exercises at most.

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So why this approach might be holding you back?

Let’s come back to this example I highlighted earlier

Whilst the routine looked amazing.

There was structure, there was discipline.

When I dug a bit deeper. Here is what they said.

This is the problem!

I find when beginner singers have this elaborate routine.

This can almost translate

You probably don’t know what you’re doing.

And the reason we got here is because we think

We think more = better.

But what we don’t realise is if we’re just constantly running through exercises mindlessly, without even knowing how to do it correctly.

Not only will you not see results.

But you might start to reinforcing bad habits.

Which you have to spend time unlearning in the future.

This happened to me and to a lot of my students.

Okay Ivan, so I know I shouldn’t have this elaborate routine. So what’s the better strategy?

Solve correct technique on ONE exercise first.

The reason why is if you can figure it out on one exercise. You can then use it to solve other scales or sounds.

Now what’s correct technique?

For me, it’s can you change pitch without anything else changing? No change in volume, vowel, posture. Just pure pitch change.

So I would try different sounds/exercises and see if there are any where you can do them.

Now for some of you, you’ll probably notice you can’t do it on any of them.

Maybe as you do the scale you have to push more air, volume, or your voice cracks with pitch.

And so you need to sit there and figure it out here first.

More exercises won’t help.

So this is the core idea with building your routine.

Solving technique on one exercise and then using it to translate/solve other contexts. Now let me share with you a couple of example routines from my students to show you how I implement it.

Routine #1

Routine #2

So you can see here in both these examples.

I start my student with an exercise where they can feel good technique or the best technique they can! And from there, we use it solve harder contexts.

This is how I’ve found to make true meaningful progress in your singing technique.

Anyway! I hope this answers your question.

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