Oftentimes, the difference between a good singer and a great singer is the singer’s ability to stop judging their sound and be vulnerable in front of an audience. A great singer is able to let go of the outcome of their sound and trust their technique because they have become willing to make a bad sound. The most important word here is “willing.” When you become wiling to make a bad sound, you free yourself from the pressure and fear that if you don’t control your sound then you won’t sound good. The irony is, that very control is the main thing holding you back from finding an ultimately true and great sound you can count on.
It all comes down to fear and what we do as performers in response. For a singer, the fear of not sounding good causes us to manipulate, force, darken, or in other ways control our sound in detrimental ways. Our voice ends up sounding great in our head, but not so great to the outside listener. (We all know that what we hear inside our head does not sound the same outside our bodies. Anyone who’s heard their voice on an answering machine can attest to that.) In my work with singers over the years, I’ve witnessed many times that the moment a singer gives
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