How to sing better instantly
Jan 09, 2026Have you been practicing vocal exercises, funny sounds and weird drills hoping that one day you'll magically get better as a singer?
I've been there.
I took professional vocal training for over a decade - and I just kept waiting, waiting, waiting for that moment where it all clicked and I was the kind of singer I'd been dreaming of becoming.
But it never came.
Then the crushing realization that maybe I just didn't have what it takes to become a better singer started to creep in - day by day, exercise by exercise; I really started wondering if I'd just been wasting my time.
This got worse and worse the older I got - most of my favourite singers were absolute powerhouse singers in their late teens and early 20s, and here I was in my mid 30s still straining and struggling with even the most basic songs and exercises.
Guys like Paul Rodgers from Bad Company/Free who was all of about 17 when the first album came out - some of the greatest rock singing of all time. Layne Staley who was about 21 when the first Alice in Chains album came out. Ozzy Osbourne who was early 20s when the first Sabbath album came out. Chris Cornell who was about that age when Soundgarden's first album came out.
By this point, I'd been singing for a decade longer than most of my favourite singers had been singing when they were in their prime.
Something just wasn't right here.
I'd been practicing and training for YEARS - yet these guys all seemed to sing amazingly from day one, they sang well instantly.
So I started looking into HOW they were singing rather than WHAT they were singing.
That might seem like semantics; but if you put aside all of the cool style stuff for a moment, and you look at the sounds and tone and vowels that these amazing 'natural' singers are singing - it was in start contrast to most of the stuff I'd been practicing.
So I started closing my eyes and really making note of the SOUNDS that these singers were singing - and instead of warming up for an hour, I'd start practicing and playing around with these sounds and vowels instead of the exercises I'd been doing for over a decade.
And something clicked.
I'm not going to say I was a perfect singer, but I definitely found how to sing better instantly.
And it really starts with kinaesthetics.
Finding the right 'place' to sing, the right 'direction', the right 'way' to sing.
You don't need more practice, more time, more exercises, more drills...
You need better instructions.
You need to talk to your voice in the right way, just like your favourite singers are doing from day one.
Instead of pushing my voice 'forward' like you'll see in thousands of YouTube voice tutorials - instead, if you aim for the BACK of the head, almost like you're surprised (ah! I get it!) - you'll find that most of the breaks and weird flips that are happening in your voice disappear, because that space in the back is actually where your first formant rings - the pitch, the body of your sound.
Instead of clenching your belly trying to 'support' - instead, keep the outward feeling at the ribs and under the belly button that you get when you're breathing in and KEEP that resistance when you sing; you'll find this triggers the right pitching mechanism (the CT muscle) instead of triggering a reactive response in the voice - if you've ever yelled and shouted trying to hit a high note, THIS is why.
Instead of practicing 3000 different exercises hoping that 'something' sticks one day - you simply need to find the right sound and right placement for your voice and this will show you how to sing better instantly.
I've put together a video with the most basic version of this that you can follow and apply in your singing in literal minutes from now and start singing better right away (just read the comments!! It really works);
