The Most Repetitious Part of Singing

So, what’s the most repetitious part of singing practice?

It’s the repetitions.

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Horrendous jokes aside, there’s no getting away from it. To polish a song takes repetition. I’ve written this article about putting in the reps, and I’ve written several others that orbit around the same theme… how repetitious of me.

For many people, repetitions become tedious. It’s one of the reasons few people stick at the gym, or running. Sticking at anything that involves long durations of going over the same ground again and again with ever increasing precision and focus, is not something that comes naturally.

That’s the scope of today’s article. I just want to make two simple points then wrap it up.

1) Songs only get better with reps

However great your first rep is, every subsequent rep will only ever be better.

This might seem frustrating, but in reality it’s an incredible gift.

Think about it:
Possibility 1: If your first rep of a song is awful, it doesn’t matter – it will get better. Think where it could be in a few hundred repetitions.

Possibility 2: If your first rep of a song is excellent, then think how epic it will be with the same number of repetitions.

Like a woodworker planing out a board, the more passes you make on a song, the smoother and more refined the song will become. That’s just the process. You barely even have to worry about it, just trust the process and reap the rewards.

2) Patience

The above description of song rep practice is the way song development and artistry works. No song is just an hour or so of practice from perfection. You can’t get to a polished version of a song without the reps. However good you think a version is, it will always be better with practice, so embrace it and learn how the process breeds patience – both with your own voice and with the process itself.

When you can trust this process and realise that repetition IS the process, patience is the result. When you do the reps (e.g. a few every day), within a week or two it will be immeasurably better than the first time. And a few weeks after that, better still. And so on and so on.

Simply chill out, do a little every day, don’t take it all so seriously. That’s how improvements in your voice have to come.

That’s all folks!

Nice and simple message this week. Go set aside some time to practice per this article, and enjoy the process!

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