In addition, singing can be an effective way to keep your mind and body sharp. At School of Rock, our trained vocal instructors teach students all aspects of singing. With a little dedication and a lot of hard work, anyone of any age can learn to sing. There are many studies that show that music and singing classes in old age can be healthy for both physical and psychological reasons.
After teaching for a few years, I was struck by the number of adult clients who told me how, when they were little, a choir director or family member asked them not to sing. Choirs are a phenomenal group activity recognized for their ability to make large groups of people enjoy singing and creating music together. Okay, so seeing those little ones singing in perfect tone on America's Got Talent can make you feel overwhelmed. The reality is that the aging voice changes and those changes won't always have a positive effect on your singing.
So I thought I'd spend some time on the question and see if I can change minds and hearts, hoping to inspire those over 50 so that they can learn to sing and even have a career in music. How good you are and how fast you are depends largely on how you train, but you can learn to sing skillfully reliably, with power, beauty and great ease, at any age. Look for a teacher with whom you experience a breakthrough in strong but easy high grades in the first lesson. Although most of the time I never consciously admitted it to myself, deep down I was pretty sure that I lacked what it took to have a truly good singing voice.
I highly recommend this route for those who want to learn more about how singing fits into the huge world of music. If you are ambitious, of course, you can always find a choir that sings in different languages and reads music. If you find it difficult to match the tone or produce a clean tone in your lower range, you may allow about 2 to 6 lessons before expecting a breakthrough, but you'll still want to experience this feeling very early in the process, and it's a reasonable result to expect from a truly skilled teacher. If you want to sing very demanding technical pieces like opera or if you want to sing professionally, there may be a time limit, but at 28 you are not even close to that.
I didn't have money for singing lessons, I took some classes when I could, but I didn't see many results from sporadic classes and I began to doubt that even professional singing lessons would work for me. After 8 weeks, the singing teacher told me that she couldn't do anything with me and that she was suspending classes. If you find an effective singing teacher and practice regularly, you should have an idea of what you are capable of, early in the process, and most people should expect to become consistently good singers within a couple of years.
