Hasten slowly professional#
Like the pianist working on the passage above, you will want to take the time to establish the foundation on which you build your voice, and that will, in turn help you achieve your artistic and professional goals in the long run. Just because you are talented, have a beautiful voice, and sometimes you get it right on the first try, does not mean that you are ready to hit the ground running. Instead of doing it instantaneously and risking that it is just a fluke, the goal now becomes not only to do it right but most importantly, to learn it so that you never do it wrong.īuilding your career as a singer is a lot like that pianist working on the difficult passage. There may be a slight chance that they get it right on the first try, but what about every time after that? What will happen to the consistency of their playing? How will they know if it was just a fluke (which it absolutely was)? They now go back, dissect the passage, play it slowly, practice with different rhythms, build up tempo, work on the fingering, and put in the necessary amount of time to learn it from start to finish. What does it mean to make haste slowly? Let me use the following metaphor: A pianist, while learning a difficult musical passage which is at a high level of technical difficulty is tempted to just play it at tempo, just do it, get it on the first try. Skipping steps can make them feel like they are getting there faster, but the truth is, they will inevitably have to turn back and redo the steps they have skipped. With the latter, you can feel an actual sense of panic, which some may confuse with ambition.
They put in the work, but they always try to skip steps because they want to get there faster. Then, there are some who lack patience and are always running after results.
Hasten slowly how to#
Knowing how to brand yourself, is an important skill, but the question is, are we skipping important voice building steps in the rush to get “there” faster? Some go into the process, they lay down the base for a great technique, let the voice develop, work on their languages, musicianship skills, bodywork, all of which make someone into a complete artist. I work with singers, and a big part of my work is training young singers who are more than aware of their online content. How does a young aspiring singer get to their desired result while fighting the temptation to skip steps? Fast forward to 2020, we are the age of social media, instant fame, and being discovered on big platform talent hunts. Imagine, back in those days, no social media or profiling trends were pushing me to show my results to the world. I think that when I was a student, I was impatient and maybe a little result-driven. It took me a while to understand what it meant. This is what my mentor and teacher, the late Dixie Ross Neill used to repeat to me when I was studying with her, but Caesar Augustus is said to have first adopted the motto: Festina Lente. Make haste, slowly.
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