subject: How To Learn Good Singing With Good Breath Control [print this page] How To Learn Good Singing With Good Breath Control
Good respiring system is essential for voice control when singing and each self respecting face should learn and master this system. Vocalists will never be in a position to sing strongly, maintain a tone gracefully and sing with fervour without achieving mastery of good breath control technique.
When you are drawing in breath for singing, breathe from the base of your lungs upwards. When good respiring method is mastered, you are going to be able to feel the breath all around your lower stomach, not just at the front.
Your chest and shoulders may start to lift as you draw in your breath but do not let them lift or else the singing voice will sound strained and tensed. You'll be annoyed with your singing effort if shallow respiring is your breath control foundation. Shallow respiring is air stored on your higher lungs where your throat and the higher chest meet. Correct and good respiring technique starts with the diaphragm and the breath support muscles. As you are practicing your singing breath control technique, do pay special notice to how much noise you make when you draw your breath.
This is as many vocalists accept that a loud breath is a big breath which isn't correct. When you breathe, take sips of air and not gulps. Silent quiet respiring should be the object of a good respiring method. Loud respiring is often because of a constricted throat and is an unsubtle appearance of shallow respiring in contrast to what many vocalists think. If you are afraid to grow your stomach when you are taking in your singing breath for fear of looking fat, this will lead on to having strain in your gut and your diaphragm with its breath support muscles won't be working at the top as they need to be. Most vocalists are not even aware that they are holding back all these tensions. With so much stress in the singing supportive system, the relaxed floating voice will be irksome, or maybe most unlikely to realize. This strain is caused by years of stomach in-chest out posture inculcated since young. Now, let's start with a vocal exercise to learn good singing breath control. Begin with taking 1 or 2 silent quiet breaths.
As you draw in the air, expand your lower abdominal all around including the sides and the back. Make a psychological note on how a quiet breath feels like. Next, release the air steadily and singing the vowel 'Ahhh ' as you release the air with your gut returning to its original position. Have you detected the vocal sound quality that you have just produced is steadier and has a floating tone attached to it? It needs to be stressed that the amount of air required for good singing is largely little and so a correct amount of air attached to a note should be just satisfactory. Learning and getting a handle on this singing breath control method will take you on the way to become a miles better singer.
