If you want to learn how to sing better, a good first place to start is with your posture and breathing. While there are a bunch of different aspects to a breath management system, the cool thing is that if you get the posture thing, which honestly isn’t that tough, then the rest will begin to fall into place. So, I’ll say some about both but...…
In this article I would like to talk about two primary things when it comes to singing, and the first is how to sing from your diaphragm. I’m guessing that you have heard that you are not supposed to sing from your throat but from your diaphragm. This is true, but maybe nobody has ever ...…
To talk about singing from the diaphragm is to talk about breath management technique, without which, singing well is impossible. Singing from the diaphragm means singing in a way where the diaphragm is lowered and remains lowered for as long as possible. This is accomplished with a complete breath, and completed breath begins with proper ...…
As you may know, your breathing technique is one of the most important parts of singing well. Serious and/or professional singers attempt to master this before trying to master so many other parts of singing, because without the proper amount of airflow, nothing else matters. Turning airflow into tone with the vibrating larynx is what ...…
Not all breath-management systems are created equal. In fact, the best system, in my opinion is not the German-based, so-called belly breathing technique, but the appoggio breathing method. With the belly breathing technique, most of the expansion from the inhale is done forward in the belly, whereas with the appoggio technique most of the expansion ...…
What It Is And How To Start Practicing It Let me start off by saying that singing messa di voce is not easy and is usually practiced by seasoned vocalists who have worked for many years to do it properly. But it’s a great exercise of breath-management and phonation control, which is to say engaging ...…
The Vocal Struggle La Lotta Vocale, or the vocal struggle, is part of the appoggio breath-management technique and is in opposition to the belly-breathing method. The vocal struggle is the challenge to remain in the inhalation position through inhalation, expiration and the silent renewal of breath. The struggle itself is for the muscles of inhalation ...…
Acoustic Energy and Airflow Management For the last couple of posts we’ve been talking about some of the reasons that intonation goes sour. We talked about how internalized listening could be one of the reasons. When a singer relies heavily on the sound that he or she hears, which is largely depended on the vibrations ...…
Silent Onset Breath Exercises Sometimes referred to as “attack,” onset is the beginning of the sound that comes out of your mouth at the onset of singing. While this may not seem like that big of a deal, some would argue that the freedom and tonal quality of the rest of your sung phrase depends ...…
Maintaining Appoggio In my last post I talked some more about the nuts and bolts of appoggio and gave you some practical ways to assume its physical position. I mentioned that it is more difficult to maintain than to position yourself into but certainly not impossible with some practice. In this post I want to ...…
