Proper Breathing For Singing

Breathing Correctly Creates Great Singers

Breathing, something you do 24/7, sounds like it should be easy to remember. But for many vocal-singing performers, sometimes it's not. When singing on stage, your mindset is usually different than any other time of day. While exercising and vocalizing, get used to nice, slow, quiet, deep breaths. While you practice this at high velocity times of the day, you'll notice it feels more natural to take short breaths in your chest. Work on pushing the air down into your stomach. When you breath in, the air itself is obviously not going to your stomach, it's still in your lungs. While breathing in, push your abs out and keep your chest relaxed. This will cause your diaphragm which sits right below your lungs, to expand downwards leaving the lungs with more space to expand. When this happens, your lungs have more room to expand in the downward position as well. This lets your lungs expand more than usual as well as pump that extra oxygen into your bloodstream and muscles. This will cause you to have more air and support for everything. This will not only help your vocals, but your overall stamina while being able to showcase your vocals and still hit the high and long notes, after running around the stage.

Fitness and Singing!

A Vocal coach can help your fitness too...Singing requires a fitness level not unlike an athlete.  When you have been exercising daily, it comes in handy when you hit the singing stage for your performance. Not only does your body look better when you are in-shape under the lights and off stage, but you have more physical endurance. If you don't have to push your body harder than usual, you will have more energy you can focus on your vocals. N*SYNC might not have been the biggest rockers of all time, but, I do remember seeing an interview where they talked about running 5 miles a day while singing through their show. That, to me, does not sound easy and it shows true commitment to your craft. When you watch a performer that has to dance on stage for an entire set it looks as hard as it truly is. When you add vocals, it makes it twice as tough. So rockers may be famous for their partying, but you'll sing better when you are actually fit. Learn how to sing here.

Singing Endurance

Create long lasting endurance when you sing! The most important like any physical activity, is to be healthy. Eating the right foods before a singing performance can be crucial to making it through the show. I personally had a bad experience playing a show in Nashville, after eating from a popular fast food restaurant chain. This show featured 8 bands, and each played no more than 3 songs. Three songs is a very short set and shouldn't be hard to give it your all. But after eating food that didn't provide the proper amount of energy and a light feeling in the stomach, there was a small disaster. After the second song, I had a feeling of stomach distress accompanied by a feeling of lightheaded-ness. Not a way to end a 3 song set. While barely anyone knew I wasn't feeling up to par, I knew I had to change the way I approached even a short show. The point is eating the right foods makes sense for your performance.
Learn how to sing better than you ever imagined!

Do you want to sing better?

Your Singing Success just got easier. Look, I understand that you love to sing, but do you sing well - or at least as well as you really want to sing? Here a re a few tips and a good video that can help you to sing better.

Find and create your natural volumn. Many people sing too softly, out of shyness or embarassment. This keeps them from being able to support a good tone. Others sing as loudly as possible, which can result in sharp or flat notes, as well as body tension. Singing at your natural volumn should feel good, not forced or constricted.

Locate your best tone. Tone is strongly affected by your state of mind. You may find that you sound better when you imitate someone else, like an opera singer, pop diva or rock star. Have fun experimenting and don't hold back! You may be surprised at just how good you can sound.

You gotta learn to relax when you sing! Tension destroys vocal tone. Try not to let your shoulders hunch up and keep your neck from tensing. Don't force your chest up and out when you breath in. This will actually constrict your air flow. Stay in motion, however slightly. This will relax your body and your tone will sound more natural. Try gently swaying from side to side with the rhythm. You'll look better, too!

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Save Your Voice On Stage

Have you ever gotten a tense throat just before or even during a singing gig that you were excited about singing at and of course they were excited to have you sing? You start wondering, can I pull this off? What if they aren't happy with how I sound, they'll not refer me for other gigs. Well, the list of singing fears would be endless here - I think you grasp the point. Well, below is a brief but useful outline of this issue - keeping you voice healthy.

Q: Even though I'm pretty healthy, I lose my voice when I sing live. I guess I'm pushing harder than when I practice. What should I do about this?

A: The first thing that I usually ask a singer is "how well do you hear yourself in the monitors?" Often, they are not hearing themselves sing on stage, so they figure that the audience can't hear them sing and push their voice harder than what is natural. The result is that the tone becomes dull or strident and often intonation problems occur. Talk to your sound man and make sure that you have enough of your voice in the monitors. If you've got the funds, invest in a headset microphone.

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Sing like a pro and make it look easy!

Can you sing? Do you want to sing better and make it look easy?  You can learn to sing with ease.  If you are less than satisfied with your singing, then it is very likely you’re doing something less effectively than it can be done. But stop and think a moment.  HOW do you get rid of the difficulty?

There are several possibilities: 1) You are just no good at singing (many people suspect this about themselves, but it’s totally untrue as you will learn); 2) You are not trying hard enough (many people assume this too, but you will find out that trying “harder” only ADDS to your difficulty); 3) Singing is a special skill that you have no useful knowledge about, so you must be prepared to spend lots of time
and money learning this totally foreign skill. More singing tips are coming...