How To Sing: The Fear Of Singing
If you want to learn how to sing losing your fears will be an important lesson on your journey to vocal success. It’s that simple: 90 percent of all singing problems come from some sort of anxiety.
When you are afraid of singing in public (the experts call it decantophobia) or if you believe that you can’t sing really good you will fail. What is singers number one enemy? It’s tension.
We make huge efforts in order to stand in the right posture, relax our vocal cords and keep our voices healthy. Why? Because all these singing exercises will help your vocal muscles to relax.
But if you were once really afraid of something like public speaking, asking a girl for a date or because of this ugly spider in your bedroom you maybe know that fear creates tension in mass.
Going through the forest and suddenly a large and hungry looking lion approaches you will create enough fear to paralyze you. The same goes for the fear of singing: You fear what your audience could say or do and then your throat goes into tension mode and everything that comes out of your mouth will sound like a croak.
Maybe you already know this situation but how can you conquer your fear?
#1 Start believing
Start to believe that you can learn how to sing good, that you can sing beautiful and that your voice is an amazing tool.
When the fear comes back just remember the lines above and remind yourself that you CAN sing beautiful.
#2 Will your audience kill you?
Figure out what really will happen if you sing bad. We tend to exaggerate with the consequences. Your audience will maybe laugh a bit but that won’t be the end of your life right?
There will always be a new and fresh audience where you can try again. At least they won’t kill you and live goes on…
#3 Try at karaoke nights first
Your confidence is still not high enough to approach a real audience or you would like to make a “test approach” first?
Then use karaoke nights! There are so many singing fools who never ever had a singing lesson that you will sound good no matter how good you really are. What’s even better: You are a insecure singer under insecure singers. No one will laugh or throw tomatos.
Learning how to sing can sometimes be scary but if you never give up and keep learning how to improve your self esteem and your confidence one day you will sing like a professional. I know it and you should know it too!
