Non-performance singing

There are only three kinds of music making experiences that require us to ‘do it properly’. To get it right.

1) When we learn, practice or perform culture. When music making is lore, and it requires precision and specifics to express the meaning it holds. This is true for indigenous cultures, traditional music based rites, and music used specifically to connect with ancestral practice.

2) When we learn, practice or perform specific music modalities. Western Music is a great example of this. It has rules, methods, scales, pitch and chordal structures that follow a system. Whilst learning the system the expectation is to ‘get it right’.

3) When we work and perform within the music industry. But unlike the first two examples this one also adds a ‘music standard’ into the equation that needs to be met in almost all cases. The music standard is quite like the beauty standard! It’s what can be marketed, consumed and adored, but is also founded on a stereotype.

When we adhere to the rules of music we can develop skill and knowledge, when we adhere to external music standards we can fit in and gain popularity.

And in all three examples we can potentially lose our thread of unique Inherent musicality - the mother tongue of music that always has and always will, bubble away inside each one of us.

✨Non performance singing divests from these requirements!!✨

It means we can sing any which way we sing. It means we can’t make mistakes and we can’t get it wrong. It means we can’t compare ourselves to anyone else.

Essentially it gives us an opportunity to be free of a single limitation in our musical expression, which is the cornerstone of true expressive and creative release.

And… is equally as musical as the most trained musician in the solar system.

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