Music teachers will probably say that professional music starts with a theory. Only after learning notes and other aspects of music theory, it is possible to sing well. However, there are some good singers who don’t know anything about music theory. They don’t even know the notes, but their voices sounds well anyway, because they can learn by listening. So is it really a necessity to learn music theory to become a singer, or is it just imposed rule.

The biggest issue is that if you want to become a better singer, you will need to do the music trainings and mostly they are based on music theory. For example, one of the most common ways to train the voice register and height is to hit a note on the piano and try to sing it. If you don’t know the notes, you cannot do this practice. Also other trainings are based on similar principles, so to do them singer need to learn the notes and music language. Those singers how can tell the difference between sounds just by listening can try to manage without knowing notes, but it still restricts the learning process. That means training your voice will be lot harder without knowledge about music theory.

If you really want to start professional singing career without knowing notes and anything of music theory, also be ready that you will need a help form assistants. It will dramatically complicate the practical part of your work. You won’t be able to sing any song, you haven’t heard before, because notes mean nothing to you. So you will need someone who translates this music language. It will definitely encumber your work.

So you see that not knowing music theory really complicate the task of becoming a singer, but actually there are also some benefits from not knowing notes and learning by hearing. Lot of singers admits that knowing music theory interfere to their ability of improvises. If song is not written on the page with notes, they don’t know how to sing it. Any singer needs to be able to improvise and sing in their own, unique manner, otherwise their singing gets boring. Then maybe it is even good to knot know the notes?

Actually, it all depends on the singer itself. If you don’t know the notes and it doesn’t disturb you to become a better singer, you don’t need them. If your voice is really good, it is improving and also you don’t have any practical problems with singing the songs, because of not knowing the notes, then you really don’t need them. Even if the representatives of academic music will deny that, it is possible to sing without knowing the music theory.

However, if you feel that lack of this knowledge disturbs you in any way, start learning it. Most of the people are not so gifted to sing perfectly only by listening, so if you have serious attentions on singing, than take some time to learn music theory.

To make your singing trainings more productive you should hire a vocal coach. Professional vocal coach can help you understand what should be improved in your voice and help you to fix that. There are many people who offer their help to singers, so it’s complicated to choose the right one. Usually singers choose them by recommendations or high profile, but how can you be sure that you will be able to work with him? There are better ways how to choose a vocal coach.

The qualification is not as important as mutual understanding. You won’t learn anything if your coach will make you feel uncomfortable. Vocal coach must be truly open and tell you the truth, but in the right manner. If he makes you understand that you are not talented and you are not able to sing, than that is exactly what will happen. You need to trust your coach and have a good connection. A good vocal coach don’t do their job only to get paid, that really care about their students and are interested to teach something. Unfortunately you can’t figure out if you will gave a connection by recommendations or descriptions, so you must try many couches before choosing the right and only one. That might take some time, so better choose the minimum possible lesson time at the first time.

When it comes to qualifications, just make sure vocal coach knows the music theory and is able to explain all the aspects about singing. High qualification usually doesn’t mean anything. There are lots of vocal coaches with several higher educations in music, but who doesn’t have such thing as empathy and without that he won’t be able to teach you what he knows. At the same time some vocal coaches without any certificated education are able to teach everything student needs to know and help to reach the best possible results.

One other aspect that should be taken into a consideration is a music style. Some vocal coaches specialize in one specific music genre or style. If you are sure that you want to sing only in one specific genre, than you can choose a vocal coach that is specialized in that one genre, but choosing a vocal coach that is familiar with wide range of music genres is usually more efficient. A good vocal coach will be able to assist any singer, no matter what is his singing style. That will give a wider understanding about the range of voice, not only focus on what you want. Maybe your voice is meant for different kind of singing, you’re just not aware of that.

So the plan for finding a vocal coach is quite simple. First do some general search and find vocal coaches who has some knowledge and professional experience, but at the same time who seems reliable to you. All the further choice must be based on the experience, because you can’t know with witch one of them you will have the best connection before you have met them.

Usually a passion for singing has only those who are naturally gifted and have a good singing voice. Those who can’t hold a note and sing any song doesn’t even bother themselves with this activity, because it is believed that singing can’t be learned. Is it really so? Is singing only a Gods’ given talent or just a skill that can be learned just like any other?

Many singing experts claim that it is impossible to sing good if you have no talent at all, but at the same time there are a lot of proofs that singing can be learned. Studies have showed that singing can be learned to completely anyone, at least to a decent standard and in some cases even with really great results. It is possible to develop the voice, but it takes time and a lot of trainings. So if you are willing to learn to sing, start training.

Unfortunately it is not easy to find the right approach for that. There can be lot of examples for singing trainings found on the internet or in books, but every voice is unique so there is no guarantee that these trainings will work for anyone. Usually this is the main reason why people think it is impossible to learn how to sing – they are just training wrong. So there are some things you need to figure out before starting practical trainings.

First of all, before trainings, you should explore your voice. Record your voice and listen to it. You need to figure out what is wrong with your voice and what you want to accomplish with these trainings. For example, you need to understand either you can or can’t control your voice and hold a note. If you can’t then you need to start trainings from the very bottom and learn how to hit a note. If you can control your voice, then you need to find the specific aspects of your voice that should be improved and train these aspects. There can be such aspects as voice register, breathing, height of the voice etc., which should be improved.

The basic exercises for improving your singing skills would be singing along musical instruments. The best one is the piano, because than you can see which notes exactly you can sing and which can’t. Don’t sing a whole song, just hit the note and sing any sound along it. By doing this, you will learn how to hold notes in a song.

If your singing skills are at least in a level to sing simple songs, you can work on specific shades. For this you can use books or articles with examples of trainings, but look for the trainings that can fix your exact problem. If it is too complicated to detect the flaws by yourself, you can hire a vocal couch that can help you.

Don’t believe if someone says singing is not meant for everyone. They are wrong. It is possible to learn how to sing. Of course it will take a lot more than just one day, but if you will practice and work on your singing skills regularly, after few months your they will be a lot better.