Sing About You
How to sing from your core?
I have heard a lot of people say that if you sing with support from your stomach, it makes you much better. I am not actually sure how you do this and would appreciate it if someone could help me out. Any other tips you have on how to sing would be great. I played a wind instrument for 6 years so I know how to get good air support and I know about posture. How can I get better at singing. I know I will never be great, but I would like to be okay at it.
singing from your core is also known as diaphragmatic breathing or belly breathing, or a host of other related names. We singers still have a very imprecise vocabulary, so sometimes it’s hard to get an exact idea of what’s meant.
However, as a wind player, you probably have developed your sense of opening u p in your back muscles rather well, and this is an area that most singers don’t get around to (pun intended) but which helps balance and stabilize the breathing mechanism. What we are looking for is that point of balance where the muscles of inspiration and the muscles of expiration are working together. Mostly they are working against one another, as in everyday, ordinary breathing. I
I know the old-fashioned school of breath support in wind players was to expand and hold tight. Nowadays, people go for a more flexible, give and take approach to how they allow their air stream to come out. It’s this point of regulating the flow that we endeavor to maintain.
Now comes the hard part. As a wind player, you have been taught to hold your mouth in a relatively closed fashion. This will be of no use to you as a singer. Rather, you need to re-acquaint yourself with an open, loose feeling in your throat, jaw, lips and tongue. This whole area replaces your mouthpiece/reed, and needs to remain open to allow all that wonderful air flow you’ve generated to come out in the shape of sound. As the air rushes past your vocal cords, these generate a buzz of a sound, not unlike a buzz from a trumpeter’s mouthpiece ( without the trumpet). The whole resonance tract of throat, m outh, nasal passages are then used to give that basic buzz a color and sound that we label singing.
My advice is to practice by looking at yourself in a mirror to help get used to that look of ease while singing. You’ll be heartily sick and tired of scales, but we do need that fluidity of sound as well. As you tired to link one tone to the next in your sound stream while playing, try and link them by that same unbroken air stream while singing.
Best wishes and keep on singing
P.S. How about a teacher????
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