How to develop your Music talent...

I hope this is the beginning of a journey that will truly end up with you discovering your potential in music or nuturing that potential to fruition. Does any of the statements below sounds like you?.... They say I have no music talent - I want to sing but there’s no headway - I don’t need anybody to tell me I sound terrible. I can hear myself - If only I was half as good as that guy… - Learning to play the keyboard is so difficult…I quit - I have recorded an album and no one is interested in listening to it - I’m so tone deaf I cannot tell the difference between two simple notes - In my choir I never seem to get a song right and even when I do it takes such a long time…I’m thinking of quitting – I just cannot seem to make beats out correctly… I’m either too fast or too slow and I’m the one making all the mistakes when we perform – ever since I hit a high learning how to play the keyboard I’ve gotten stuck. I’ve not been able to take a step beyond the chords I learned 10 years ago – I sing well but I lose my voice easily almost after every performance – Rehearsals are always great but I get so frightened and intimidated on stage I just forget everything. I’m reduced to a poor wreck. I don’t feel like doing this anymore – People laughed at me anytime I sung so I tried vocal lessons but that hasn’t helped. How do I know? They still laugh except that this time they laugh harder and louder. I quit. It’s not for me. If you can identify with any of these you should read on.... Introduction Music is probably one area man is still interested in exploring even though it has been with us humans as long as we have been. We have never once stood up to say enough of it, let’s find something else. It does add a lot of color to life doesn’t it? Today more and more people are exploring new areas music can be brought into. More people are exploring how to participate either as instrument players, songwriters, arrangers, singers, studio owners, sound engineers and a lot more than we can list here. This pursuit has left lots and lots of people frustrated and unfulfilled because they are unable to maximize the potential they believe they have. Many want to sing and sound like the professionals they hear on CD's but it just becomes a mirage. Some spend so much on the best trainers of music around but are still where they begun. In desperation they say music is not their thing. They feel they have nothing to offer. If you can identify with this you may be the reason for all the information you are reading now and would encounter as we go along. Just maybe you entered through the wrong door into the world of music. Do not lose hope. This door will lead you into a fresh understanding of what is more like you and less of others. You may also be a talented person (or at least you think so) who is finding it difficult to go beyond where you are with your talent. This will help you greatly in maximizing what you have. Whether you are a professional, a raw talent or a skeptic who through repeated failures into the music world has believed there is no music within and as such no hope, this will help a great deal. Strap up, hold on tight and let’s make this trip smooth and enjoyable instead of the turbulent ones you are used to. Gender, race, color, religion, politics, dialects, global economies – you could go on and on listing the many things that divide us as human beings. Let’s face it. Yes we are all human with a common entry and exit in this life. We were all born and someday we will die. One would have thought our common destinies of life and death will bridge the gap among us but what do we see? We keep adding more and more things that divide us. It is however not so gloom as there is one special thing every human and nature can relate to. It is a place of common ground, whether tears or laughter. It is MUSIC.