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.