How to sing from your diaphragm?

My Auntie is a vocalist teacher & she says it doesnt work. You cant sing from your diaphragm!! Heres a few paragraphs from a great site my Auntie reccomends for all her students. Why This Technique Does Not Work Let me first say, the teachers that are giving you these instructions aren't completely wrong. Yes, breathing does have to occur in a certain way for you to sound great. But the thing is, you can already breathe properly. Your diaphragm ALREADY works automatically. Let's clarify this some more. I know it may sound a little confusing. When you fall asleep at night, why do you stay alive until morning? Because your diaphragm works by itself! It doesn't need exercises specifically designed to train it to work. It can already work well enough for your singing. YOu don't need to learn how to sing from your diaphragm. The Biggest Problem Is... When your teacher goes on and on about how to sing from your diaphragm, and how to support your tone, it gives you the impression that you need a lot of support to sing. It gives you the idea that you have to consiously control how much air you send to your vocal chords. And this pattern of thinking is... ... very damaging to your singing. You see, you don't need a lot of support (or air pressure). You just need the right amount. And it's impossible to send exactly the right amount of air by 'thinking about it', which is what these breathing exercises make you do. There Is A Better Way... Instead of training your breathing muscles (which won't work), why not cut to what's really important. Why not train the muscles that do control your voice. What I'm talking about is the 'inner muscles of the larynx'. These are the muscles that control your vocal chords, which make your sound. You see, to sing well, you need to strengthen these 'inner' muscles, so they can hold your vocal chord together. When your chords are holding together, your voice will remain connected... Meaning you will be able to sing, over a large range, with absolute ease. If these 'inner' muscles are not strong enough, or if you send too much air pressure (which is what will happen if you use the 'diaphragmatic support method) your chords will break apart. This is when your voice falls apart. It sounds breathy, and you won't be able to sing in a large vocal range. Once you train these muscles to hold together, your breathing will be regulated automatically. That's right. Correct breathing is actually a by-product of holding your vocal chords together. Not by learning how to sing from your diaphragm.

My perspective is from my old music teacher. I used to play both the flute and trumpet years ago. He always encouraged me to breath using my diaphragm. The process is the same for singing because basically, your voice is just another type of musical instrument. Have you ever noticed when you take a breath that your upper chest will slowly rise and lower? Same works for the diaphragm. You have to take that breath and try to force it lower into the area of the belly. You will feel your belly lower and rise just a little bit. If you do that, you will push down the diaphragm and be able to fill up both your lower and upper lung components fully with air. This will increase your lung power for singing or playing a musical instrument. That is why it is so important to use your diaphragm for singing or playing an instrument. You will have more power and be able to sustain notes longer and more clearly.

i think its cute that ur name is Harmony and you ask about singing.. lmfao. :D

Sing with your diaphragm. I am sure you have heard people say "Breathe with your diaphragm when you sing" or "Sing from your diaphragm." However, what exactly do they mean by breathing or singing with your diaphragm? How can your diaphragm breathe when breathing is supposed to be the work of your lungs? One of the main foundations when learning singing is to learn how to breathe correctly so that you are able to control your breathing when you are singing. Once you master your breath control or breathing technique, you will then be able to hold your notes well as well as improving your tonal quality when you sing. We are all born with correct breathing capabilities. As babies, we yelled and screamed and can be heard from very far away even though our lungs were very small then. Our voices resonated far and wide. Why is that so? It is because we used our lungs and our sound production resonant naturally and effectively. As we get older, we became lazy as we only use the upper part of our lungs, taking in shallow breaths instead of making optimum use of our lungs. Furthermore we lost the ability to use our natural resonator properly and thus lost our sound projection ability as well as our good voice timbre. As such, we need to unlearn the bad breathing habits with the correct vocal exercises. Surrounding your lungs is a muscular system called the diaphragm which is attached to the lower, sides, bottom and back of your ribs. When you breathe in, the diaphragm muscle lowers and displace your internal organs. When you breathe out the diaphragm helps to bring in the muscles around the lungs (abdominal muscles) to control how quickly the breath is exhaled just like an accordion squeezing out air in a consistent way. If you breathe out fast, the diaphragm does nothing and just sits pretty. When you breathe out very slowly, the diaphragm resists the contraction of the abdominal muscles. A good singer will then use this diaphragm muscular system to control the singing breath as it is being exhaled. Hold your index finger about an inch from your lips and breathe out slowly and try to notice the action of the diaphragm as you exhale. This should be the amount of breath used when you sing. A singer do not need to 'push' or 'force' air through the vocal cords to produce a good strong or loud sound, doing this will create a lot of air pressure against the vocal folds may damage the vocal cords. Your tummy should move inward or contract when you exhale. It should not be intentionally sucked in because by doing so, it will prevent the diaphragm from working naturally as it should. Instead the abdominal area should remain expanded to the level it was when you inhaled and allowed to gradually decrease naturally at the end of the singing breath. This is where the excellent singing controlled breathing happens. The singer expands the lungs by inhaling and controls the amount of air expelled when singing by allowing the diaphram muscular support system to expand. So that it feels as though your tummy is slowly blown up like a balloon when the air goes into your lungs. In short, this is what is meant when people say, "Sing from your diaphragm". The theory is easy to understand, but it requires a lot of vocal exercises and practices to internalize this correct breathing technique until it becomes a sub-conscious breathing habit of a good singer. Click here to learn how to sing effortlessly and make your singing voice soar.

have someone bigger than you stand beside you. they should put one hand flat behind your back and the other hand they should put into a fist and when you sing they need to push on your abdomen so that it forces air out. after a while u get used to it and can do it by urself. hope this helps!

1.Stand up Straight 2.put your hand on your abdomen(where your navel is) 3.give it a little push 4.at the same time try to breath in 5.Keep practicing and you'll be able to do it without your hand

Well, first you have to take it out of its little case, then you wipe off the KY and insert into mouth, then blow, it sound more like humming than singing tho...

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It's when you don't use your head voice, head voice is light and breathy.