How To Set Your Inner Musician Free

When you feel like you don't know how to sing there are a lot of things to feel self conscious about. That doesn't make learning any easier.

In order to sing or play the tune that you have stuck in your head it helps if:

• you feel confident that you know the words.
  
• you are so comfortable with your musical instrument that you can play it without thinking.
  
• you have portable musical instruments that you can carry with you always.
  

Blah Blah singing is nothing more than using the word "Blah" instead of the song lyrics. When you say "Blah" instead of the words in a song, you eliminate the distraction of working to remember lyrics. You are also using a word that is short and not awkward to pronounce.

• With a song in your head, say or sing the melody using the word "Blah".
  
• If part of the music is a little too fast to say "Blah" just sing something like Blah-de-blah-de-blah that feels like it fits.
  

If you are working with a tune that is well stuck in your head, you will find that as you relax your voice will naturally try to match the musical sounds in your head with no effort on your part. Try this. Think of the song "Jingle Bells". Don't try to sing it, just think about it for a while.

Now try to sing the words Blah Blah style without any voice inflection at all. Use your best monotone. It should sound like this "Blah blah blah. Blah blah blah. Blah blah blah de blahhhhh". Do that until the pacing of the words fits the rhythm of the tune in your head. Do it at the same volume as your normal speaking voice. All you are doing is talking, and that's something you are already good at.

Now go do something else for a while as you let the song Jingle Bells rattle around in your head. In a few minutes, find a private room, make sure nobody is in earshot, and sing Jingle Bells using Blah words. Sing it at least as loud as you normally speak - no whispering. You will find that it's sounds a little, or a lot, like the tune in your head. Try it a few more times and then leave your private room and go do other things.

Over the course of the day listen to the tune in your head without singing. And everyone once in a while, sneak off to the private room and sing it a few times in Blah Blah sining style, pat yourself on the back, and then go back to doing other things. You will find that your comfort and ability increases through the day.

Your fingers are handy musical instruments. With a song in your head, try tapping the tune out with your fingers. Use a nearby surface or just tap two fingers together.

You will find that it is usually easier to tap out the rhythm of a song that you have locked in your mind than it is to tap to a song on the radio. If it's not in your head first you have to combine memorizing the music with playing it at the same time. That's a distraction and makes it much harder to just tap to the music.

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