| If you want to sing you have to learn how to | | | | It's very important to be able to fill your lungs |
| breathe, it's just that simple. Being able to control | | | | quickly when singing and a good technique is to |
| your breathing and focus it in the right areas | | | | actually visualize the air as it flows in and out of |
| accounts for so much when it comes to the tonal | | | | your body. For example, when you breath in |
| colour and accuracy of your singing. In this article | | | | imagine that the air is really heavy - as though it |
| we'll take a closer look at the process of learning | | | | weights 30kg and is falling to the very bottom of |
| to breathe all over again! | | | | your body. At first we repeat this exercise in a |
| When you breathe normally it's usually just a | | | | slow way, getting used to the sensation. |
| shallow and even motion of inhaling and exhaling, | | | | Once your are comfortable try to let this heavy |
| kind of like an automated process we rarely | | | | air fall to the bottom of your body but faster. |
| notice during the course of our normal activities. | | | | You should imagine your lungs as a balloon being |
| With singing however you must learn to control | | | | filled with air and try to feel your abdomen |
| your breathing and turn the autopilot off. A | | | | expand. It will take some practice and getting |
| singers breathing action is more likely to consist of | | | | used to but it's an excellent example of what I |
| fast inhalation and a slowly released exhalation. It's | | | | mean by 'learning to breath again' and how we |
| called breath control and all well trained singers | | | | use visualization to help us get there. |
| have mastered it through practice and coaching. | | | | In the next article we'll look at the opposing side, |
| It's something you learn rather than are born with. | | | | exhalation. |