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by Tiny Voice on March 10th, 2005

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Is age 22 too late to start voice lessons?

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  • by EdMuse on January 11th, 2006

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    Starting age for voice lessons is a matter of much debate. Beginning the study of music early is always a good thing. For boys to learn serious vocal technique before puberty is permissible, as the breathing technique they learn will last their lifetimes, and is easier to learn young than later in life. What they learn as trebles about tone production will do them little good after their voices change, though.

    Girls, on the other hand should not start serious vocal training before the end of puberty. The breath support musculature surrounds the delicate, developing organs in their abdomens, and can affect that development adversly. For girls, 11 - 14 is a great starting age.

    Besides, starting too young at voice lessons is like going to expensive daycare.

    Starting later, around 35 - 40 is still fine, but one is far more enured in terms of bodily muscular actions at that age. In other words, learning to breat will be more difficult. To be honest, thinking in terms of a professional career in singing at that age is at least somewhat wrong-headed, as well. In popular music, it's extremely rare to get signed by a major label after 30. In classical music an musical theater, youth is a big plus. In folk music, lots of good techinque is not tremendously necessary, anyway. But singing for fun, or gaining the technique to do those solos with the church choir, or those leads in the community theater company? Great!

    So 22 sits right in between. For a professional classical or musical theater singer, it's a little later than many of your peers started, but it's certainly not too late. You still have the flexibility of control over your breath support musclulature, and you have some maturity of thought process that singers even a few years yonger than you don't have. If you have the right instrument, good musicianship and good networking skills and you work hard, you can still do anything. If you're just in it for fun and to improve yourself, then more power to you. Have a blast!

    -EdM.

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