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Summary: Learn how to break bad singing habits with expert music tips in this free vocal coaching video clip from a professional music theory teacher.

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Mark W. Black Armed with a master's degree in music and theory and owner/founder of Promethean Studios in Dallas, Mark W. Black has taught hundreds of beginners how to adva... read more

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Breaking Bad Singing Habits

Hey! I am Mark Black and welcome to expertvillage.com. We are going to be talking about vocal performance. Now I just want to say again the thing about new techniques, remember when we started I said that the voice is… you do not see your voice it is based on habit. So I want you to realize that this is very important I see many students fail because they won’t accept or they won’t embrace or understand that. Somebody tells you do something new it is going to feel unusual, it is going to feel uncomfortable. I suppose mostly you just feel unnatural just because you have a habit, I have a habit of speaking. I do not want to talk like this, but if I did, somebody said just why do you do need to talk, well I will not feel uncomfortable doing it for a while but I’ll get in the habit of doing it and this way as well. I have to work on it, a new habit has to come and the voice is a mass and an album of habits and so I just want you to realize that whether it is from something I say or a teacher or book or CD you’ve got, if something is in there and you are trying to do it, especially if it is useful, it is probably going to feel uncomfortable and unnatural. The issue is whether it sounds good, not whether it feels good and I am not telling you there is definitely a lot of weird ideas out there about the voice. I mean you know if you are in pain or after you try something for three months or something it still does not, you don’t see any kind of progress, then you could start wondering about it but just realize it a new good thing is going to feel unusual because your voice is not like I said you know playing the flute. If we talked about how to change something in your flute playing we would look at your hands and say “oh! I see it” but in the voice it is all in head.

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