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By maintaining the feeling of inhalation while you’re exhaling, you can protect your vocal folds and maintain a beautiful tone. This is often called breath support, the vocal contest, or “la lotta vocale”. Continue reading Breathing for Singing: The Vocal Contest The main point I took away from a lesson with Dr. Martha Rowe was to use the breath as a moment of relaxation. This really worked for me. The Weekly Gathering (named after a singing concept taught to me by my current teacher) will feature some of the better singing and music articles I’ve found around the web in the previous week. From Classical Singer Magazine: The Legacy of Richard Miller NPR’s Report on Better Breathing: Baby Steps to Better Breathing Vocal Basics of Inhalation When you inhale several events happen at once: The diaphragm contracts and pushes your viscera out of the way. This causes the lungs to expand downward and in so doing, creates a vacuum in the lungs that allows air to come rushing in. Several sets of muscles including the intercostals and So I am cycling through a couple of major ideas this week that I will describe in brief. Soft belly. Through work by myself, with my teacher, and my students, I have found that really committing to having soft abdominals will force a singer to find deeper and more profound support. To find Breath is one of those subjects that every teacher agrees is important, but not everyone agrees as to how it should be taught. Some minimize it saying that athletes have great breath but do not have great voices. Some emphasize it continuously saying that it ties into everything we do as singers. I guess |
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