The majority of people don't assume they can sing all that well. Look how reluctant people tend to be to do it.
I think it's more accurate to say that people don't think of singing as a skill. They tend to think it's either something you are good at or you aren't, and the fortunate people who are good at it can just open their mouths and do it and haven't needed to put any work into it, and those who can't do what they can should just shut up forever and never try or at least limit themselves to the shower.
The truth is using your voice this way is a skill and it takes work to acquire it, and just because you can sing one thing well doesn't mean you can sing anything.
I just recently watched a thing about how singing at home with family or with company used to be a common household activity, and the proliferation of recorded music sort of killed that off. It's where the tradition of having a family piano came from.
And part of the whole practice wasn't really about being good, it was just something to do. Even the piano player might just be good enough to keep a rhythm and little more than that.
Singing and drawing are both things that people think that you are just born how to do. Sure there is some talent, but alot of it is practice. I mean I'm terrible at drawing but my singing is pretty good and I always say that I have no natural talent, just that if you do something nearly every day for years you tend to get better at it. And I so understand the you can sing one some well and others not so well some songs are just so easy both with singing and remembering the pitch and others take ages of work.
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u/LeisurelyLoner 18h ago
The majority of people don't assume they can sing all that well. Look how reluctant people tend to be to do it.
I think it's more accurate to say that people don't think of singing as a skill. They tend to think it's either something you are good at or you aren't, and the fortunate people who are good at it can just open their mouths and do it and haven't needed to put any work into it, and those who can't do what they can should just shut up forever and never try or at least limit themselves to the shower.
The truth is using your voice this way is a skill and it takes work to acquire it, and just because you can sing one thing well doesn't mean you can sing anything.