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When You Sing, Do You Breathe Virtually?<br>by A K Whitehead<br><br>Whatever kind of voice we have, using it to its full potential depends<br>very much on whether we breathe efficiently. Singing is one of those things <br>which virtually all of us do. But do we do it virtually or [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-du-lich-singapore-malaysia-indonesia-gia-re-tu-ha-noi-sai-gon-hcm.html Tour singapore malaysia giá rẻ từ hà nội] [http://Www.Nuwireinvestor.com/results.aspx?searchwords=properly properly]?<br><br>Well, that's being rather hard. But the point is that, if we want to sing in<br>some kind of serious way, there are certain principles which can be<br>ignored only to our own detriment. That's the case whether we prefer to<br>sing pop or classically. The principles involved used to be mostly <br>associated with the latter. But now more and more people are realising <br>that they can be applied with good effect to any kind of singing.<br><br>For example, do you have confidence when you open your mouth?<br>Can you sing phrases which are as long as you would wish? Or do<br>you have to loose the sense of what you are singing because of<br>pauses for more breath? Do you have control over the pitch and <br>volume of your voice? Or do you sing in ways you did not intend?<br><br>All these aspects can be improved on by developing a few techniques<br>for good singing i.e. for singing better than you currently sing.<br>Certainly, the best idea will probably be to get a good singing teacher.<br>But it is possible to make some prior progress. But essential to that<br>progress is breathing - breathing effectively and not, as most of us<br>tend to do, breathing inefficiently.<br><br>And the technique of breathing effectively is really quite simple.<br>But it will need working at. First of all, however, always be sure that you:<br><br>1. Care For Your Voice<br>Your voice is, in fact, comes from quite a delicate system of sound <br>pproduction. The system can be damaged, sometime irreprerably. So <br>always take care not to push it too far and try to do things which it has <br>not been educated to do.<br><br>2.Practice<br>Ever heard that practice makes perfect? Well, it does. Good<br>singing does not just come. It takes practice. Of course, no one would<br>sing something for a public audience without having sung through the song<br>at least a few times in private.<br><br>But is that where the practice should start? With the song itself? No, it<br>should start a good deal before that. For example, one cannot sing<br>without breathing - and that needs to be practised.<br><br>But practicng once a day is far better than once a week - much<br>more than seven times better! That applies to virtually anything, but<br>certainly to this. Your lungs need to develop and gain in doing what you<br>want them to do.<br><br>However, breathing is not just a matter of sucking in the air. So:<br><br>3. Breathe To Fill The Lungs<br>In a very short time, developing a good breathing technique will show<br>how inefficient your beathing used to be.<br><br>Breathing is much more than opening one's mouth and taking a lung-full<br>of air. In fact, just opening your mouth and trying to take a lung-full will<br>most likely not produce a lung-full. Most of us take breath in such a way<br>that we try to fill the lungs from top downwards. That's just inefficient. <br>The result is that often we do not speak or sing for as long as we <br>wanted or, even worse, for as long as we thought we could. Even worse <br>than that, sometimes, we actually have air left in the lungs which we do<br>not use because we do not know how to use it.<br><br>Fill the lungs from bottom up. Try to breathe so that the lower parts of<br>your lungs expand  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-du-lich-singapore-malaysia-indonesia-gia-re-tu-ha-noi-sai-gon-hcm.html kynghidongduong.vn] first, right down at the bottom. Continue to inhale <br>and feel the lungs expand from the bottom upwards. The first time can <br>make one a little dizzy, but it is only the first time. <br><br>Breathe in counting fairly slowly from one to ten. Hold the breath for a<br>second and then exhale over a count of twenty at the same rate. You<br>may not manage twenty at first, but with practice you will. And as you <br>practice, over a prolonged period of time, gradually slow down the rate <br>of counting to one second each count. Eventually, you may be able to <br>exhale over thirty seconds or even more.<br><br>4. Breathe Anytime<br>You don't need to leave your breathing exercises at home. Take them<br>with you whenever you are walking. Breathe in to a given number of steps,<br>and then try to breathe out over twice as many. It's a harder excercise<br>than stood at home, but rewarding in the development of your technique<br>and what you can and once could not do with your breathing.<br><br>5. Breathe On Your Feet And On Your Back<br>Standing up is the usual position, but there can be advantages in other<br>breathing positions. For example. sit down in a chair with a firm back, <br>or on the floor with your back against the wall. Breathe in deeply, filling<br>from the bottom as usual. Feel your lungs fill and expand as they push<br>against the wall or chair.<br><br>Try doing the same laid flat on your back on the floor. After some<br>practice, try lifting a fairly heavy object up in your hands as you breath,<br>[http://ajt-ventures.com/?s=lowering lowering] it as you exhale.<br><br>6. Developing Additional Breathing Techniques<br>There are only a few basic principles attached to producing good<br>singing. The problem is that they all take considerable time and <br>practise to develop to anything approaching perfection. Breathing is just <br>one example, albeit a very important one.<br><br>Sometimes in actual singing one needs to get as much breath into<br>the lungs as possible within a very short space of time, perhaps when<br>there is a rest of only a quaver or eighth note. Sometimes the composer <br>has left no rest at all but a breath has still to be taken somehow between <br>one note and the next. In these cases it is important to be able to get <br>as much air into the lungs as possible in order to get through the next <br>phrase that has to be sung.<br><br>To help with this,  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-du-lich-singapore-malaysia-indonesia-gia-re-tu-ha-noi-sai-gon-hcm.html Tour singapore giá rẻ] practice taking very quick intakes of air and then<br>exhaling over increasing lengths of time.<br><br>During the early stages of breathing development it is useful to get some<br>variation into the practice period. If you spend, say, fifteen minutes on<br>breathing, follow the general approach outlined above. After a year or<br>two,breathe in for the usual count of ten so that the lungs feel full. But <br>then try continuing to breathe in for another ten. Then exhale in the <br>usual way.<br><br>Later still, follow the last paragraph, but after the second count of ten<br>try holding the breath for another ten, and then exhale over at least a<br>count of twenty but working up to thirty.<br><br>In the early stages, breathing practice can seem a bit deadly. Try to<br>get some variation into it. Perhaps most of all, make regular assessments<br>on your progress. That will help more than anything to keep the<br>motivation going.