Songwriter’s Breakthrough
I love working with singer/songwriters. As a voice teacher and a songwriter myself it’s a real thrill to guide a client to the vocal freedom that informs the songwriting process with new ideas and new choices.
Today I taught one of those totally fulfilling lessons with a fairly new client. Matt, a pseudonym, has taken a couple of classes with me and then about 4 weeks ago he took the plunge into private lessons. Then today he had one of those astounding breakthroughs.
We were working on a song he’s going to be performing in a couple days. It’s a song he wrote several years ago and has performed many times, but today, Matt heard, really heard the song for the first time. He heard his own inner voice (the lyrics he wrote) and his singing voice communicating the same message. It was an amazing moment when all the elements come together to make good music.
This time when Matt sang his song, he heard his own voice ringing clear and strong. The lyrics were released through his instrument with nothing to get in the way.
How? That’s the $64 million question.
Matt and I worked first on body alignment to unlock some of the tension in his instrument. We then did a lot with sustaining the openness of the vocal tract so his breath and sound could release forward, naturally.
You see when the body is open - free of inhibiting tension and the mind is occupied with speaking every word clearly, something magical happens. Your natural instrument begins to work all on it’s own. And when that happens, art is created.
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