I get asked all of the time "how can i learn to sing just like you?".
Well, firstly, i would like to think that you'd like to sing great just like YOU. But that's another topic.
One of my biggest secrets is something i've created over the years that only i can tap into. It's kind of like a place. It's very real, and it has a profound effect on my singing sound and my physical experience.
It's like an internal room. We all have them. We build them out of our life's experiences, "headspaces" we go to, sometimes productive, sometimes destructive. So over the years i have built inside my head my SINGING ROOM, a place which i step into whenever i sing.
Why do i use it?
Well, it just kind of evolved out of the need to remember all of the things i needed to think about in order to sing well. The thing was that i could NEVER remember a whole list of things and then sing well, plus think about the lyrics, and then feel the story. Impossible for me. But what i did find was that if i put myself in a certain frame of mind i could achieve things without thinking about how i was doing them.
Getting started
Building your own room takes time, but there are some easy first steps.
Next time you feel you're doing something "right", make a note of your feelings, and choose an object you feel naturally drawn to in the room and keep doing that right thing whilst staring at it. You have now "attached" an experience to your object. Now close your eyes and picture that object in your mind.
The next step is to turn and face somewhere else in the room where you can't see that object. Now with eyes open, picture that object and sing your feelings of doing it "right" with that object in mind.
Familiar and unique objects will work best (rather than a school chair or some other boring thing), because we need to feel a sense of warmth and endearment to it.
You can keep building your room with objects, and pretty soon a specific "room" will evolve in your head where the objects become less important, and the feelings take over.
Happy building!
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
The Internal SINGING ROOM
I get asked all of the time "how can i learn to sing just like you?".
Well, firstly, i would like to think that you'd like to sing great just like YOU. But that's another topic.
One of my biggest secrets is something i've created over the years that only i can tap into. It's kind of like a place. It's very real, and it has a profound effect on my singing sound and my physical experience.
It's like an internal room. We all have them. We build them out of our life's experiences, "headspaces" we go to, sometimes productive, sometimes destructive. So over the years i have built inside my head my SINGING ROOM, a place which i step into whenever i sing.
Why do i use it?
Well, it just kind of evolved out of the need to remember all of the things i needed to think about in order to sing well. The thing was that i could NEVER remember a whole list of things and then sing well, plus think about the lyrics, and then feel the story. Impossible for me. But what i did find was that if i put myself in a certain frame of mind i could achieve things without thinking about how i was doing them.
Getting started
Building your own room takes time, but there are some easy first steps.
Next time you feel you're doing something "right", make a note of your feelings, and choose an object you feel naturally drawn to in the room and keep doing that right thing whilst staring at it. You have now "attached" an experience to your object. Now close your eyes and picture that object in your mind.
The next step is to turn and face somewhere else in the room where you can't see that object. Now with eyes open, picture that object and sing your feelings of doing it "right" with that object in mind.
Familiar and unique objects will work best (rather than a school chair or some other boring thing), because we need to feel a sense of warmth and endearment to it.
You can keep building your room with objects, and pretty soon a specific "room" will evolve in your head where the objects become less important, and the feelings take over.
Happy building!
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