People come to Songkraft to improve their singing.  That is a perfectly good reason to begin. Singing is one of life's great pleasures, and there is deep satisfaction in discovering a voice that is freer, richer, more expressive, and more capable.  Arriving with the hope of improving their singing, people also discover something greater: an understanding of how human beings learn, change, and grow.

What follows, on the pages of this website, is the information that you need to have if you intend to learn to sing and perform well.  

To begin this journey, you must realize that people accept living with less than their best because the familiar feels safer than the possible. Growth demands effort, uncertainty, self-examination, and the risk of failure; limitation asks only that we keep repeating what we already know. Over time, compromise becomes habit, habit becomes identity, and people begin defending the very boundaries that confine them.

It is sad how many times I have spoken to someone who deeply desires to sing and express themselves freely and authentically only to realize that they will use some excuse or other, and there are a great many, to prevent themselves from learning to do so.  Please understand that no one I've ever met has an ugly voice or is incapable of singing beautifully.  No voice is ugly that can create an emotionally moving song, and no one is incapable of learning how to do so.  Whether the voice is coarse-sounding or refined, nothing is more beautiful than someone expressing their heartfelt emotions through the melody and poetry of a song.    

If you don't wish to be one of those people who accepts less than their best, then you are on the right path.  By choosing to sing and perform, you will begin to learn how to become your best.  You'll need these three things.  

Firstly, you'll need the information necessary to understand how exceptional voice and performance work.  You can't fly a plane without knowledge of the language of aviation and you can't sing and perform without acquiring the how-to language that makes it possible for you to understand how it works.  

Secondly, the discipline to put in the time necessary to get it to work.  You have to be able to schedule an appointment with yourself to practice and show up. 

Thirdly, you'll need the patience to see it through, no matter what.  What that means is that you will have to love what you are doing enough to keep at it no matter how many times you fail or how long it takes to learn.

What's not to love?  

If you think you can, or think you can't, you are right!

Great singing is easy and, to the singer, it feels effortless because, in their finest moments, singers are not separate from the song. What's difficult is learning to make it easy.  Singing is not something that a great singer undertakes as a task.  Through the discipline of deep practice, singing becomes a subconscious act, an experience in which breath, body, feeling, memory, imagination, and intention integrate into a live spontaneous creation.

If this way of thinking resonates with you, then I believe you'll find that Songkraft offers something both different and essential. Not because the destination is different, but because the journey is enabling. We pursue vocal excellence with the understanding that every genuine improvement in the voice reflects a deeper integration of the person who produces it. In the end, that may be the greatest lesson singing has to offer: that excellence is never simply about performing better. It is about becoming more fully yourself.