5th September 2008 - by Chris Chew
Breathing Technique to Sing Better
One of the most important but often overlooked aspects of
better and good singing is to develop a good breath control
technique. Many new or untrained singers don't even have an
inkling that by breathing correctly, they are not only able to
hold a note longer, have a more steady tone and will not become
breathless easily. That is why having good singing lessons
before a singer launch his/her singing career is so vitally
important.
Many people must have thought that why should they care about
breathing techniques when they already know how to breathe. If
they don't how to breathe then they would have already croaked,
wouldn't they?
Come on, singing breath control is more than simply knowing how
to breathe. It is a breathing technique and can make a world of
a difference if you want to sing better.
To most people, breathing simply means that you are just
filling 2 bags (your lungs) with air and then squeezing them
out over your vocal cords, right? WRONG! It is much more than
that.
So what is the correct singing technique? Well, have you heard
of singers talking about singing from the diaphragm? Well, what
they are talking about is the singing breathing technique or
breath control by your diaphragm.
When you take a breath, are you letting your belly move out of
the way of at bottom of the bags (lungs)? If not, you won't
start with enough air to get you through a number of notes
without having to breathe in again. Thus you will get
breathless pretty quickly.
The correct way to take in air is to breathe in a nice, deep
breath and imagine breathing that breath into your tummy. If
you do that, your stomach will expand outwards, out of the way
of your fast filling up lungs.
The means that your lungs will have more capacity to take in
more air and when you breathe out or release the air when
singing, the natural motion of your tummy coming back in acts
like an accordion, regulating the outflow of air. It this way,
your singing tone will be more steady and pleasurable to listen
to.
Because you are now getting more air with each breath, you are
now able to hold notes longer, able to hit higher notes and
will not get breathless as easily too.
Now the next thing to learn is to let your vocal cords be the
controller of the air supply, allowing what it needs to pass
through and at the same time breathing normally.
There are many of philosophies on breathing techniques for
letting the air passed through your vocal cords, like do you
"let" the air out, do you "hold" the air back, do you "push"
the air out.
You see, the most common problem with running out of breath
when singing has little to do with breathing although it does
play a part! That problem has to do with allowing too much air
to escape when you are emptying your lungs during a song. If
your vocal cords are coming together with a nice firm seal, it
takes very little air to sing a strong and firm tone!
However, if you are singing into falsetto or if you have not
found your chest voice at all (some women actually have this
problem), you will be letting excess air escape while you are
singing and you will be running out of breath much sooner than
you wish to. So by using the correct method of breath control
when you sing and you will never get breathless again.
Want to sing better, then master your singing breath control
technique and be a much better singer.
Article Source:
www.megamusicsite.com
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