The Truth About How Long it Takes to Sing Well

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Many first time-students ask me how long it will take to learn to sing well. We turned to an important study to find the REAL answer to this age-old question.

[@lisaschauer5371]

Absolutely correct!!! Talent, in my opinion, is overrated. Singing can be hard work. I've been a singer for over 20 years and still practice. But I found a lot of fun and joy in being that committed.

[@ramseyvoicestudio]

nice!

[@fire12731]

Awesome @Eveline

[@Mulberry2000]

absolutely not correct.

[@jgjz1585]

To everyone who whats to become a great singer: your goal should be to gett better, not the best ✌️

[@ramseyvoicestudio]

that's a practical approach

[@escobaresco1895]

It takes at least 10 years to master anything. If you focus on what ever it is you want to learn. You’ll achieve it without even knowing it. I’ve been practicing singing for a year and half and I’m better then I was a year and a half ago. I don’t sound like George Michael. But I will cuz I’m not stopping and I’m not learning to impress any one just for my own enjoyment and satisfaction.

[@ramseyvoicestudio]

good for you Escobar

[@altpropaganda7293]

Same here, living room singer but I don’t care… I sing because I love it so much.

[@starkiller578]

10 years is an exaggeration

[@shoshannaweinstein7193]

THANK YOU for the honest answer. I'm frustrated with how long it's taking me to figure out how to sing, even with lessons, and this is VERY encouraging.

[@thefakenews3150]

The 10,000 rule refers to extreme mastery, for example; a brain surgeon, an Olympic class athlete. Your training is often a sigmoid curve. The closer you get to the top the longer it takes to make progress. Whereas 1000hrs in something, is more like having a bachelor's degree. IIRC around 300hrs you can feel the difference, you're no longer a novice. In other words; the worse you are, the easier it is to make progress. This is assuming you are approaching the subject correctly, ie focused practice not random practice and a good teacher.

[@ramseyvoicestudio]

is that fake news, haha, actually I think you're right

[@TheRezabob]

Not to mention the 10 000 hours thing has been debunked by numerous scholars

[@thefakenews3150]

@@TheRezabob According to whom? Provide a source to a meta-analysis please. Because according to Dr. Peter Vishton, professor of psychology at the college of William & Mary there is in fact credence to this claim. However it must be "deliberate practice." For example. Ten hours of doodling will not help your drawing skills, while 10 hour of drawing faces with the goal of trying faces in different positions will.

[@dustinlandry2275]

I realize I'm kinda off topic but do anybody know a good site to stream newly released series online ?

[@Mulberry2000]

@@thefakenews3150 There is no credience to the claim at all. A person doing a honours degree at university does not even come close to the 10,000 rule yet they know the subject very well ( in the UK degrees are highly speicalised so that you do one subject for three years, and at the end you get an honours degree, while in the US its four years for the same degree). Then add on a Masters degree and a phd it does not come close. To get to 10,000 rule one has to study for 52 weeks a year and 70 hours per week for 3 years. Thats is right no breaks, all year round, that would be impossible and uni courses only last 7-8 months lol. its not the number of hours of study that matter it is how you studied in the hours you did. So you can study say karate for 4 years. and become a black belt. There is no way a black belt does 10,000 hours of study in karate to become the dan grade. Why? 2 lessons a week at 1 1/hour per lesson, is 3 hours per week, you can work out the rest. This is why the japanese say a black belt is not the highest grade but its the start. If you studied karate for 10 hours a day 7 days a week, for 3 month you can achieve black belt level. No one would say a black belt person does not know his or or her karate. The point i am making as well is that intelligence is also important in how a person learns, people mistake the number of hours a person does then jump to the conclusion they must be very good, not so. www.6seconds.org/2020/01/25/10000-hour-rule/

[@kingwillie206]

It’s about time someone told the truth! Thank you sir.👍

[@ramseyvoicestudio]

You got it King. If you're interested in learning how to sing better, check out this article: ramseyvoice.com/how-to-sing/

[@bea78tles]

Well said.

[@at68250]

What About if your Practice Singing all day Every day

[@kingwillie206]

@@at68250 - You’ll get the same result as working out all day everyday, which is fatigue due to overtraining. There are no shortcuts, but the shortest path is a good vocal coach.

[@at68250]

@@kingwillie206 What About if I Singer all day Back Take a Break The Next day and Then After That day you get right on it and continue to do it

[@djhaughey1]

thank you for this! Most instructors seem to avoid this question all together.

[@shaunawang8677]

Thank you so much for telling the simple truth.

[@ramseyvoicestudio]

it's so important

[@paulkelly5309]

And tears and self-doubt and roller-coasters of emotion during those 10,000 hours

[@Cleveland_Chris]

If this wasn't such a tough pill to swallow, this would be one of the top videos regarding learning to sing.

[@Jak0kaj]

Did the entire video in one take! I’m impressed

[@carlnielsen3477]

With many things, and I think that includes singing too, it's like, if you got a line from bottom to top illustrating all the way from able to nothing to master, the long way from nothing to quite good is not that hard to move. Its the last little way from good to excellent, that is really hard.

[@NICUofficial]

so true. "noob to decent" is not that hard. "decent to master" is extraordinarily difficult but that's what makes art fun :)

[@Tea_Scott]

So true! You only get what you give

[@chaitanyakulkarni9585]

Thankssss

[@p83otfan]

Once you get passed one hurdle or breakthrough, there’s a new hurdle or breakthrough. Training wil NEVER end. When you get old, you train to not lose anything. Never End…………………..

[@JinjiSayson]

Also: KZbin "The Polgar Experiment". It proves that "talent" is something that can be learned, rather than an inherent trait.

[@ramseyvoicestudio]

I'll check it out

[@gregmgm06]

Where can I see videos of you singing Matt? I've looked around but not finding anything.

[@nayaleezy]

3:33 it's beautiful

[@thijs199]

yo, better idea. Sing misery chain by Chris Cornell, now that's and awesome song to sing by your natural voice. still I like to sing in certain techniques, or embellishments whatever you wanna call it like he does, because it just makes the song great

[@hollandrocksls]

This is so true man singing is a lifestyle

[@Die_for_ey3s]

interesting. so how do you achieve that if you're only supposed to practice no more than an hour a day?

[@nayaleezy]

bro it's only 27.39 years to git gud scrub

[@Kaeyado]

Can I be good at singing in 2 year?

[@Krishna-rj9no]

Sir you are the best and i am taking you're now everyday sir please tell me that iam a indian but I wanted to be a Hollywood singer like you is am able to became is there any nationality needs

[@ramseyvoicestudio]

rewatch this video, it is very truthful, only you know the answer

[@aleksandraPatury]

well ppl say its never to late to start singing, but 10k hours means it would be too late to start when you in your 40's as you could start being a singer when you over 50 and this is when you sing around 2 h a day

[@fhad5366]

I wanna start but i don’t know what my voice needs pls tell what to do?

[@ramseyvoicestudio]

just start and practice

[@nayaleezy]

I always start by slapping my belly with a spatula, then do 1.5 scales for 8 hours without break.

[@MAJALIJU]

The road to 10K !

[@ramseyvoicestudio]

Yeah!!

[@Mulberry2000]

10k hours to learn a skill is a myth, if that was the case humans wouuld not come down from the trees.

[@kingwillie206]

He said master, not learn. The devil is in the details.

[@FaithandNova]

Thanks for the truth, I think I'll focus on an instrument instead of trying singing lol

[@ramseyvoicestudio]

But sing for your own enjoyment, at least!

[@escobaresco1895]

That’s stupid it’s going to take you long to get good at a instrument just as long as singing. Just learn both.

[@shuhaibshaabzz282]

U have to take effect and take year of Hard work

[@ramseyvoicestudio]

the work on your voice is always necessary

[@shuhaibshaabzz282]

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[@pugh.joseph]

The truth is that, as a singer, you will be working on your voice for the rest of your life. There is no such thing as 'mastery of the voice'.

[@nayaleezy]

one monther here, still mostly suck

[@ArronCharman]

That's all very well and good. But I wanted to know how long it takes to sing well, not professionally.

[@ramseyvoicestudio]

it's different for every person

[@garycalvertii9491]

Too Fing long, lol.

[@SeraphineClarisse]

I don't agree with you. The example you said it was about practising on an instrument not on something that was given to us. Yes we can learn ten thousand hours or tjere will be always someone who just born with a better voice and easily could get away without any training....

[@kingwillie206]

And that person you believe was “born with a better voice” has been singing since before they can remember. Those are the people who have musicians as parents or had an affinity for it as a toddler. Go find a 40 year old who has never had any interest in singing and see how much “better” their voice is.