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How to sing with your diaphragm?

How to use the diaphragm to sing?

  • i looked up how to sing from the the diaphragm but i really dont understand how i think im doing it wrong cause i use my diaphragm i push it from my abdomens and i still dont sound good. I also heard its like pushing all the air out of u , but i get that i just dont understand how to sing while im pushing and it will sound good. Help me PLEASE!

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    I learned how to do this when I was 12 from my choir teacher. I can give you the basics: First, pay attention to how you breathe normally. When you are at rest and doing quiet, normal breathing, what part of your chest/abdomen rises first? If it's your chest, then you need to learn how to control your breathing. Trained singers fill their lungs from the bottom up - meaning, when they take a breath, it's looks like the stomach area is rising before the chest does. This is all about diaphragmatic control, and it takes a lot of practice. Another thing you can try is to sing to a lit candle right in front of you. I know that sounds funny, but basically, when you use a chest voice, you blow out a lot of air and it will extinguish the candle. When you experiment and figure out how to use the muscle of the diaphragm to control how you push air from your lungs, you will be louder but the candle will stay lit. Another suggestion: watch the movie "Sister Act" with Whoopie Goldberg. In the scene where she is teaching the one young nun how to sing, she's explaining how to sing from the diaphragm. It's actually a really good demonstration of how it works. When you watch a really good singer, pay attention to how they force the notes out - their abdominal muscles do the pushing, not the chest. Basically, this takes lots and lots of practice. Record how you sound NOW, and compare it to how you sound later when you have practiced this. You'll notice the difference.

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what you want to try is pushing your abdomen out before breathing in to start drawing breath to the bottom of your lungs, then as you breathe out totally relax your throat and concentrate on the diaphragm... try to tense up as much as you can then breathe out... this also helps you to reach higher notes as your cords need less air to come closer together.

Liamoc123

1. Imagine you are a tube of toothpaste... :-) 2. From the *bottom* of the tube (i.e. using your lower abdominal muscles) squeeze *all* the air out of your body, 'til there's absolutely none left. Your abdominal muscles should be very tight. 3. Now relax. As your abs loosen, the air will rush into your lungs and your belly will drop. This, in exaggerated form, is one singer's breath. When breathing correctly there should be no movement above the breastbone. Your chest should not rise and fall. Rather, your belly should move in and out. (Singing is no place for vanity -- lol!) Practice this method of breathing often -- it must become habitual to be effective. Singing staccato exercises is helpful to integrate the technique into your singing.

BroadwayStar

Breathing and using all your muscles correctly is not something you can learn on your own - no matter how much research you do. Reading something online is not the same as having a teacher who can work with you, show you how to do things and help you to refine your technique. There is no substitute for working with a voice teacher. Good luck!

annonymous

The way our choir learned to use the diaphragm was for two choir members to sit together, one behind the other. As the person breathes, the person behind them should have their hands over the intercostal muscles of the person in front of them. The intercostal muscles are between the ribs in the back. The person in back must put there hands on the intercostal muscles of the person in front of them, which are located on both sides of a person's back, about halfway down from the neck. The person in the front must be in a singer's posture. The person in front (now refered to as the singer), will try to breath in through their nose using the diaphragm. If the person in the back can feel the intercostal muscles expanding and relaxing WITHOUT the singer's shoulders rising or chest expanding, then the singer is properly using the diaphragm.

Michael M

To say one should breathe from the diaphragm is a a vague and incomplete statement. There is no mechanism in the diaphragm that would allow one to draw breath in. You can only draw breath in using the mouth and nose. Posture is very important when singing, and it can make or break your ability to breath correctly. Breath should be taken as low as possible. The chest should never move.

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