Having a Tough Time?
Part of being a musician means never being satisfied, always perfecting your art, striving for that next rung on the ladder to success.
But sometimes, too much self-critique, obsessing over small things, and general uncertainty can get the best of you and put you in the downward spiral of creativity.
Sometimes, it’s the songwriter who hasn’t written a good thing in months (I certainly know this one).
Or the singer who feels they have plateaued. Or the recording engineer who has remixed a song into oblivion.
We’ve all been there, but to get out, I think that it’s important to remember the physiological side of the musician.
Everything comes from the brain.
Your brain’s job is to come up with thoughts.
Like an oxygenating tube in a fish tank, your brain bubbles up with millions of thoughts a day. Good, bad and ugly.
The best-case scenario is feeling good, aligned and centered with where you are in life.
But we all know, this isn’t a permanent reality.
Sooner or later, we have to experience some downtime too.
But here’s where you can use your brain for you, rather than against you.
First, embrace the down swing then try to imagine yourself in the future and how the low feelings made you the person you are.
How, without the hard times, you wouldn’t have grown so much.
What does this really look like for the musician?
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If you haven’t written something good in months, chances are you’ve found another creative outlet. Like cooking.
If you plateaued as a singer, maybe you used that time to pick up guitar or piano and learning that instrument unlocked something in your voice.
If you’re stuck mixing a song, maybe you’ve learned some new tricks along the way that apply to your next song.
How can a small change, like deciding to take voice lessons, impact you in a year’s time?
One of the hardest things about learning a new skill is the emotional aspect of feeling discouraged.
Learning anything new is challenging, but singing is a skill that you can’t learn through seeing or touching it. And that can be very discouraging.
In voice lessons, discouragement could come from feeling that you didn’t practice as well as you could, or that your singing in the studio is different from your singing at home.
It could mean that you’re having an off week and that note at the top of your voice that was so easy before isn’t anymore.
And for beginning singers, there is a lot of feeling discouraged when talking about new concepts in the voice.
But the tricky thing about feeling discouraged is that it’s the essential ingredient to your success.
While discouragement may hurt in the short term, it pays off big time in the long run.
Let’s talk about why discouragement is so important to your development and discuss 5 different tricks to handle the emotions of learning a new skill.
Want to Nail Those High Notes?
Every singer wants to expand their range. Expand Your Range Fast will show you how to finally hit high notes in your voice without straining. Expand your range by 5 notes or more!
