

If you’re not sure whether you or your child is ready to begin learning to sing, check out this article to learn the best age to start singing. What music gets you excited to sing? What are the songs you sing along to in the car? The process of learning to sing is long and difficult, one that I’m still on, so you need to find the reluctant joy in the practice. The most important place to start your singing is from a place of joy. Rock, as a genre, is full of so many diverse vocal types that no matter what path you might follow, it’ll lead you somewhere underneath its umbrella. As vocalists, we limit ourselves to what we can do by keeping ourselves from exploring our instrument. Personally, I began as a classical vocalist solely because someone told me once that I could “make a career out of it if I wanted to”. Singers will always put themselves into a box when they first start. Over the past 6 years, I’ve had many beginning vocalists come into my studio telling me “they can’t sing” or “I'm a *this* kind of singer”. “Everyone can sing, but we all need to find out what makes our voice unique,” is something I repeat ad nauseam to my students.
