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Love Your Voice

Anecdotally, significant numbers of people feel or think that they cannot sing.

Research into problems with basic singing skills suggests that only around two percent of people struggle to perceive pitch, which impairs their ability to differentiate between musical notes, and so to sing them.

However, not all of the remaining 98 percent have confidence in their singing voice, or even in their ability to sing at all. There is reliable evidence for positive effects of singing on well-being in adults, and thus those who do not sing because they think they cannot, do not have access to the same well-being potential outcomes as those who do sing.

Our project aims to create a pilot study with a small group of participants who self-identify as unable to sing. We will work with them via group and individual interventions, analysing their self-perception of their own singing voice before, during and after the series of interventions, with the hope of increasing their self-confidence in their singing voice, overcoming their negative beliefs about their voice.

We will also assess whether the intervention leads to a more general enhancement of self-confidence, potentially resulting in an increased well-being, ability to communicate personally and professionally.

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