In my experience, one sure-fire way to improve your singing is to learn how to trust that your body knows how to make sound. What do I mean by that? The human body evolved with an incredibly effective and efficient mechanism for producing and resonating sound. By learning how to stop overdoing, over-thinking, and trying so hard to make and manipulate your sound, you can allow your body to do what it already knows how to do: make a much more free and resonant sound while singing.
To experience this concept in action, pretend you are playing with some young children who have asked you to imitate an ambulance or a fire truck. Make a siren sound in the higher part of your register and experience how freely those notes come out when you are not thinking about “singing” them, but rather just playing a game with some kids. That is your body doing what it already knows how to do in a free and efficient way. Unfortunately, many of us don’t trust our bodies to do this while singing, so we adopt all kinds of habits that we think are helping our sound, but really only get in the way.
One major tool that can help you get out of your own way is to stop listening to yourself as you sing. Listen to the accompaniment,
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