That’s a question I often get at someone’s first lesson. Our jobs as singers is to make singing look like we were born knowing how to do it. While your genetic structure of the throat and face do have a lot to do with what you sound like, everyone needs to learn how to use the voice that their bodies have given them. And learning takes perseverance and focus.
Like any other complicated and worthwhile task, the rule of 10,000 hours as proposed by Malcolm Gladwell seems to be about right. While you’ll improve immediately, make a great sound consistently in a year or two, it seems that most folks achieve mastery in about ten.
