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How do I know if I'm singing from my diaphragm?

How do you breathe correctly in singing? &How do you know how to sing from the diaphragm?

  • I would really love to improve on singing and I've heard that once you've learned how to breathe properly and sing from the diaphragm it comes a bit easier. How do you even ...show more

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    Gibberishx], What a clear question you have, it is going to be easy for you to understand the process because you seem to have asked the right questions in the right order. There is no such a thing like feeling the diaphragm because it is inside of our body and covered by other muscles and tissue. In any case, I am pretty sure that you will find this information useful, let me know what you think. The diaphragmatic breathing will help your voice to resonate full and free of tensions; will avoid sore throats and vocal fatigue. That is why a good breathing technique is very important to have. Here the short version on breathing support: 1) Lay down on your back and take notice of how your abdominal area moves easy up when you inhale, down when you exhale. No tension and nothing else involved in the process right? Ok, then next step. 2) Standing up, find the same breath process you did while laying down, notice than this time, the gravity is doing its job and there are other muscles involved that allow you to be standing up plus...your chest will be down or collapsed. Then, stand straight, do not over do it, just straight and raise your arms. Get one hand down slowly and find your sternum, get the other hand down and get it where your other hand is. Can you feel how high your chest feels? Right! that is the position we want. Did you move anything besides your arms? If you did, go back and try it again. Are your shoulders relaxed or up? If they are up or tense, go back and try it again. 3) Once you are in a standing straight position, then recreate the sensation of you breathing while laying down...It might seem that you cannot breath deep with this straight position, believe me it is possible, keep trying until you get the same relaxation process you experienced when laying down. Note: If this was not enough trouble lol! your chest MUST stay up when you release the air. 4) Remember, never during this process you must experience any tension, try this in short sessions of 5-10 min. Once you feel comfortable with this, then you are getting ready to start making sounds. Get back with me and I will give you some exercises. But before anything else, you must master breathing. Good luck and HAVE FUN while getting to know your body and your instrument!

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Put your hands under your ribs, on your sides. Breathe in. Feel your ribcage expand? If so, you're using your diaphram. Make sure your chest doesn't rise when you do this. If it doesn't work, try to breather lower and deeper. A good way to work your diaphram is to take a peice of paper and make it stay against the wall using only your breath. Be sure you're breathing with your diaphram when you do this. It gives you killer lung capacity. Good luck.

The Jekka

Try some voice exercises where you say "Huh!" "Puh!" "Tuh!" "Buh!" "Ha!" "Pa!" "Ta!" "Ba!" ... and when you're doing it, imagine someone is punching or shoving into your upper stomach, just below the ribs in the middle. Make it loud... and don't be afraid to open your mouth wide (look at a vid of Christina Aguilera and watch how big her mouth is when she sings - no kidding). Once you can feel your breath and your voice coming from that place below your ribs, then you can adapt that to your singing voice and that's where you push your breath out through. If you're serious about singing, get a good voice coach. Just avoid a choir or opera style coach because they will teach you head-tone but not as much diaphragm "belting it out" type stuff, which is important to learn first anyhow.

Zoe

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