As you know, it is very important to breathe correctly as a singer. You need to breathe in to your diaphragm. The diaphragm will support the right amount of air underneath the vocal cords all the time so that you’re hitting the right pitch all the times. So, it’s really important that you learn how to breathe correctly through your diaphragm from the get-go.
Now, just a little bit about the diaphragm. The diaphragm is located underneath the lungs. So, if you mark out the V in the ribs, feel the V where your ribs come down and go all the way down to your lowest rib, now, if you draw a line across, that triangle area is your diaphragm. It is located right underneath the lungs. It sits underneath the lungs and it pushes the lungs up and down enabling you to breathe. A lot of people say that they breathe using their chest. That is correct but not for singing. If you have ever been punch or kick in the diaphragm, you would have got winded. You would’ve felt the awful sensation of not being able to breathe air in because your diaphragm is spasming. And your diaphragm controls your breathing.
Now, what I want you to do is maybe stand sideways into the mirror and try to breathe into your intestines, so try to breathe as low as you possibly can, taking a deep breath. Now, as you do this, let your stomach stick out as you breathe air in. So, I want you to have big stomach when you breathe in, and have small stomach when you breathe out. Try this out now… try to breathe like this and place your hands on your stomach and feel your stomach stick out as you breathe air in and feel it pull in slightly as you breathe air out.
A lot of people think, we need to breathe out using the sides of the ribs, lateral breathing is important. But we want you to Focus on breathing to the square in the V of the ribs, because this is where the power is and this is where your abdominal area is. And now we’re going to tighten up the stomach a little to support the air underneath the vocal cords when you are singing.
Keep your breathing natural because you’ve been doing this since you’re born. It was the first thing that you did when you come out of your mother… you’ve been doing it naturally your whole life. Keep it natural, don’t overthink it. If you’re not getting this diaphragmatic breathing straightaway, that’s okay, keep on practicing. It will soon become natural with practice.
This is the first stage that I am teaching you and we’re going to call this “An 80% Diaphragmatic Breath”, we’re taking 80% of your air into the diaphragmatic, into the lower part of your lungs. These techniques are going to kick in, in the next couple of weeks subconsciously. And if you ever watch a great singer up on stage and jeez… how do they make it look so easy? The reason why they make it look so easy is because everything is happening subconsciously. They’re not overthinking, they practice this for hours. So what I want you to do is mark out the V of the ribs, find out where the diaphragm is, you can even gently push into that area and you will feel your diaphragm spasm. Pop your hand into your diaphragm, try to breathe air into your belly button and breathe air down deep into your intestines and get your stomach to stick out when you breathe in, relax, then pull your stomach in and breathe out.
Another good techniques is pop your hand on top of your chest, and try to not move your hand, only the diaphragm should be moving not your hand. So when you do this, your stomach muscles are relaxed, let your stomach fall out and filled up with air, dragging the air into the lower part of your lungs.
I hope that this has help you out. Read the next blog about stage 2 diaphragmatic breathing. There are three stages of diaphragmatic breathing.
Have fun singing.
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