try those excercises like "HiSSS" or other breathing techniques while your parents are at home and not in the same room. When you are alone, than start singing. AND ALLWAYS SING IN THE SHOWER WHEN YOU ARE NOT ALONE!!!11!!1!!!! This will work great at the beginning, when you get more confident you can sing more freely in your room and than go on sing elsewhere.
I sing as loud and as long as I want to in my apartment, and when my neighbors ask me was that me singing I say omg you heard it to? I think it was (different neighbor) do you think they sounded good?
No. Nancy I is right. When you sing from your throat the reason is BECAUSE you are not singing form your diaphragm. If you look up any other video on how to not sing from your throat then they will say what this video says.
Jessica Ali I understood what both of you were saying. And these tips are good. Same way there are people who sing with their nose, there are people who sing from their throat. Sometimes it’s an involuntary thing. I’m asking for a video on how to stop that.
I am SO lost. I can feel the diaphragm breathing but I always always always revert back to throat singing. Clenching and biting off the words from my throat. I think I can SOMEWHAT sing as is, but if I can do it properly from my diaphragm I'm sure I'll sound so much better!
If your voice is flat, it may be as, or sound like singing from the throat. No deepness to the sound. I think you need to do the diaphragm exercise to see results. So, just keep practising. I have a diaphragm exercise(a sound track) that I believe, with a high degree of certainty, will also work for you. I got it from my cousin and I wish could send it through here. I checked the internet for it but nothing. Keep practising.
This is the most helpful video on support and breathing from the “diaphragm “ , in actuality the abs. I have never innerstood the concept of breathing from the diaphragm, mentally or physically and this was the best thing to happen to me vocally. I finally get it. I can’t think you enough. This has given me so much confidence and hope. Hopefully I can repair my voice. I stopped singing for awhile due to disliking my voice but that was due to lack of resonance in my sound and breathing, and I think something in me knew to stop to not further hurt my voice. I’m so grateful. Thank you thank you thank you.
An old choir director described diaphragm breaths as breathing through a straw. That's how I've always thought about it and it honestly works! Focusing on the mouth shape helps a lot
I just tried practicing this a few times for 3 minutes, and singing with my abdomen just got better. Thankyou soooo much! I'm a huge 1950s and 1960s music lover, and tons of doo-wop singers, sing too high, and this technique helped me enjoy The Everly Brothers, The Mcguire Sisters, Dion and The Belmonts, Paul Anka, Bobby Rydell, and so many other favorites much more.
That downward breathing will help with that because support takes all the pressure out of the throat and keeps you from slamming your vocal cords together. Its awesome how different it feels when you sing from below rather than in your throat
Thank you!!! I never pursued singing lessons because I could not understand the concept of breathing from my diaphragm. Your abdomen explanation has changed everything! I wish I knew this years ago, but it's never too late to improve one's singing voice.
The thing is engaging your core correctly without simply tightening it is hard. Imagining and embodying the movement of the diaphragm is much easier and it automatically engages the core, especially in standing. But whatever suits you, just many people don’t have the right idea of what it means to engage your core. Most people don’t even know the core muscles
🖤🖤🖤🖤 I have been working on the hiss exercise for around a year and could never get past 38~ish seconds. No joke - no hyperbole - when you guys described HOW to hiss and to focus the air to a specific release point, I paused the video and tried it. 45 SECONDS!!!!!! What!?!???? And now - the point of this exercise totally makes sense to me. The idea of focusing/pointing the air is immediately helping me with type of vocal compression I'm working on right now. The concept of control over how the air is expended is very clear now. So fantastic. Really great stuff. Thank you so so so much!
Hia, I'm an a Australian 37 year old autistic woman who loves singing. After all these years I finally understand singing from your diaphragm thanks to you. Autistic people take things literally and I could never understand how to control my diaphragm as it is an involuntary muscle. If only someone had said to me engage your core and demonstrated to me like you have earlier I would have saved so much frustration. Again thank you so much for making content like this. You've made my day and I am sure a massive difference to my future singing. xxxx
My late, opera and musical loving, relatives would always say "stop singing through your nose, use your diaphragm". I'm now 69 and into Nightwish! LOL. All the best to you.
I'm starting out now!! This is so helpful because I'm really trying to take my singing professionally. The first time doing the hiss exercise and I got to 30 seconds!! Will definitely be doing this everyday!
I've learned in also from our workshop. The proper breathing is called appoggio...but thanks to both of you I've learned how it is done... "in and up" Got it
Coach Nicki you explained the diaphragm very well "engage your core" thank you by the way I love that sweatshirt jacket hoodie you go girl !!! Happy New Year 🍸to both of you
The Singingbelt has proven to be a valuable tool in helping me better grasp this vocal technique. It has had a profound and positive impact on my voice. I now make it a point to attend Ruth Gerson's class several times a week, and her teaching is truly exceptional.
I’m gonna try it now and update this comment. Update: 30.85 seconds first try (sitting) Update 2: 36.59 standing Update 3: tried again standing and got 43.55. Update 4: got 50.46 👌🏻 hope I’m doing it right lol
Its Braxtonmg that’s okay dude, takes time to build up, soon you’ll see you can sing many lines without taking another breath, and you’ll get better and breathing efficiently. Just keep working on it 👌🏻
In one of my exercise classes I teach people how to breath as well. Lie on your back on the floor, exhale and relax. T o exhale completely , think about making your back waist touch the floor. To do a chest inhale think about making ONLY your chest touch the ceiling, than exhale again. To do a Full Core Inhale, concentrate on filling the bottom of the lungs first which should make your belly rise to touch the ceiling, then your ribcage, then your chest. Now you should have a FULL breath. Now to exhale ALL of it, concentrate on making your chest, ribs and belly sink to touch the floor. This really helped me.
You can actually touch your diaphragm! Just use both hands to feel along the outline of our rib cage and go up, and when the fingers of both hands meet (just below the center of the rib cage), that's where we can feel it. It's very strong for a trained singer and can push your finger out very easily
I've been singing and practising yoga for many years so I thought I'd be good at this, but I only got 19 seconds! We always have things to work on, right! This should help a lot, thanks for the exercise!
man I was taking lessons and forgot I was doing this but I remember the lessons when we had to remind me. It's amazing how you guys remember the basics that you're doing without even thinking!
I feel like it is easier for me to breathe from my abs because I play the flute and I can do vibrato on my flute really well. Since you need to breathe from your abs to do vibrato and control your air on an instrument, I feel like it's a similar situation for singing.
Whenever I try to breathe from my diaphragm, it feels like I can’t get a big enough breath. Like, the breath feels limited and not as deep as I’d like it to be. Is there something I’m doing wrong? Edit: Okay I think I got it! I’m pretty sure I was just tense lol
black bird Before you warm up, try stretching. I also recommended doing warm ups on the floor, as it aligns your body and automatically makes you breathe from your diaphragm. Also, instead of thinking of your stomach going forward or out, try thinking of the breath going wide and sideways. Idk why, but thinking that way really made a difference for me. Good luck!!!
happinesss2 I used to do it that way, but thinking that way made it harder for me. Now I think of taking a deep, low, wide breath. Basically, a lot of singing for me is really dependentupon how I think of things. I just have to find ways to explain things to myself that make sense to me. And sometimes those things can get really weird... Like, for the longest time I couldn’t sing with space in the back of my mouth. Then I though, “I’m going to pretend to be a goldfish!” And now I can sing with space! 😂
Thanks! It help me a lot to understand when people say, „sing with your diaphragm!“. For the longest time, I always think of how to do it. As a nurse I don’t see any chance that I can control my diaphragm...but after watching this video, I learned that we simply need to use our core/abs. 👍🏽👍🏽
I love singing, and I thought I had a pretty decent voice. But my class was going to do a performance and eveyone has to sing, so my music teacher made everyone sing the same song but individually first. It was my turn and I started singing, but he then started laughing and kept telling me to sing with my stomach (I didn’t even know it was a thing), my classmates also joined in on laughing- Well that was 3 years ago, now I feel insecure about my singing voice, and it just popped in my head, so now I’m here 😂 anyways, I don’t feel resentful because we were always a clown of jokesters (and the teacher too) so I guess I’ve never had a grudge >3>
Your tutorials are so informative, they’ve been helping me out ALOT my only problem now is my mixed voice, I watch your tutorial on it, the problem isn’t me finding my mixed voice in general, it’s finding it and using it as I’m singing, it’s hard to explain but I was wondering if you could give any advice on that. And also how long should we do this exercise for each day?
Here's what I do: (I would like Tara to comment but I'm NOT holding my breath, pun intended.) 1) At the very beginning of a song, expand your chest with a chest breath inhale. Once your chest is expanded you will have more room for your lungs to work as you subsequently abdominally breathe. From then on, inhale by moving your belly button away from your spine and spend your breath as you sing by moving your belly button toward your spine, all while not moving your chest. 2) Before any phrase, especially at the beginning of the song, take the available time inhaling, (belly button moves away from spine). Time it so that you reach maximum air, (belly button at your maximum distance from spine), a half to a quarter measure before you have to sing the first note. Then engage your ab muscles so as to hold the position of your diaphragm, with no air moving at all, this is called "setting your diaphragm" or the "set" position. 3) Now you can think about the pitch of the first note, put your mouth in position to pronounce the first word, and think of how loud or soft you want to start out, as well as any other aspect of the sound you want to make. You can now sing without any breath noise at all and you will have plenty of air to sing the phrase, short or long, as your belly button slowly moves toward your spine. 4) Use as much time as available between phrases to inhale to the "set" position for the next phrase. If the time is short between phrases you can get a "catch" breath by quickly moving your belly button away from your spine to the set position but with no delay before the next note. 5) This may seem like a lot to think about as you sing but the more you practice, the more it will become second nature to you and you will be amazed how you are now able to sing without objectionable breath noise and easily sustain long phrases or carry over phrases you could not do before. Tara and her coach demonstrated this belly button movement but did not describe it as I did but vocal coaches I have been blessed to hear have and the picture stuck in my mind. I'm not sure how Tara feels about the rest of it, especially singing from the "set" position. She has already disavowed the term "setting your diaphragm". Again, that picture in your mind may help some of you as it did me. Again, I hope Tara and/or one of her coaches would comment or perhaps one of her Tarabytes might opine.
3 Thoughts: 1) Great advice, as always. 2) You guys have great chemistry together. 3) I kept expecting one of you to slowly deflate like a rubber balloon and one of you to pump the other back up. BONUS: If one of you could let the air out quickly so you would fly around the room, that would be a treat ;)
You are the Godess of vocal technique! No one ever explained it so easily and usefully like you! You really are the best in my eyes! Thank you! And you're pretty too! 💖😊
Hi !!! I am 42 years old and I smoke. In middle school, I was in the school choir. I love to sing, but I could never could get the hang of 'singing from your diaphragm'. I did the 'hiss test', and I got 22 seconds. I will be practicing!!!! I was told that I am a soprano. (This is my husband's account). I guess that I just wanted to know what songs to sing as a soprano......
Really good video, what I found to help me and my students is if you drop your jaw after you’re out of breath you automatically fill your lungs with the amount of air you just got rid off. And of course everything Tara and her coach talked about☺️
Fantastic video I know im late to the party but now I completely understand the proper way to breathe while Singing. Its always been my dream to learn to sing and sing well Thanks hou for all you do.
I got to 29 on the s exercise, was losing it at 27. That's if I did it correctly. I will definitely practice this and try to grasp the 'coming from my abs/core'
This video is required viewing for my voice class. However, if you only discuss supporting with the abs, they are missing another level of support by not beginning with the lower back, actually, the external oblique. If one supports from there, the abs, intercostals, etc. are automatically engaged and breath support is dramatically increased. I explain this on p. 21 of my vocal technique manual, VoiceWorks.
I think you guys are right, singing from your "diaphram" is singing from your abs🤔 I think even the people who do say that, mean to say that people should sing from the abs. I just tried this excersise and it makes me have control over my diaphragm using my abs🤔 Anyway, interesting video, love you guys🔥🔥
Once I learned diaphragmatic breathing and taught myself to breathe this way always, I find it very difficult to do any other kind of breathing. I cannot do a chest breath as Nikki did.
I just replied but I never took any notice before today but I breath from my Diaphragm too. I didnt realise that my abs move not my chest not till I actually stoped and felt my breathing. I have done years of martial arts gone to the gym need more Im still fat and sung for fun for year not that Im any good. I wonder if any of these are a factor
I feel really confident when I am singing in my room (I love to sing) but when it comes to me listening to my recorded singing voice, I feel really insecure. I have to prepare for an audition and I know I have dance skills but I don't know if my singing is alright. I am sill really confused on how to sing from diaphgram or you say abdomen. I tried it and sent it to my friend but she said that I was singing but not using my diaphgram, can someone tell me how to know that you're actually singing from the diaphgram? there must be some points on you can feel it or something :
I'm pretty late but my music teacher said if you put your hand on you heart and you sing and you feel a vibration then that means you aren't singing from your diaphgram.
Eunice Ademola You’re just getting used to using more air! If you’ve never done this before and it’s still new you, you’ll feel dizzy at first. Singing takes a ton of air. When you start breathing from your diaphragm, you’re taking in a lot more air than you may be used to and then suddenly pushing it all out. Basically, it’s normal to be dizzy when you first start. Just remember to take a few breaks, drink water, and keep on going! You’ll get used to it soon! 😄
Yeah, this used to happen to me, only very recently stopped happening. I think it's just part of the process and as you improve at applying the correct techniques it will become less of an issue.
Listening to you talk reminds me at times of Lorelai Gilmore, which just makes all of this instantly 1000% more adorable for me ❤ Either way, you're a peach! 🤗🤗 thanks for the aaaaawesome videos.
I love you Tara! 😂 both of you are sooooo awesome!!!! This was such an amazing video! I’ve never seen it described like this! 😍 helped me a lot! Going to be practicing this now!
Hi Tara, I've tightened up a lot of mechanics and techniques thanks to your videos! But Question, WHEN do you engage the core? Once you take air in, your stomach expands which makes it hard to determine/ engage. Do you engage before? After? I is confused 😕
Omg! Thank you for this exercise. For years I have heard the phrase, sing from your diaphragm, but didn't know how. This has been the best visual. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I think I've been breathing improperly for so long now that fighting it makes things hard. I know I'm always tired partially due to this but it's so hard to do breathing exercises and whatnot. I guess my asthma is kicking me in the teeth because when I attempt breathing better, I get so lightheaded immediately. The only time I can get extra air is through the frequent yawning that plagues me daily but even then it's difficult to get a good yawn. I feel like a lost cause at this point. :/ I'm kinda surprised I'm still breathing at all haha
Goddammit, I've been practicing all these years holding my breath by using the chest/shoulder method (not for singing, just for fun) but if I was practicing with the abs all that time, I'd have had this mastered. But I guess 30 seconds is good for a first.
Okay so I’ve been wondering about this because, I’ve been able to sustain the breath exercise for an average amount of time (around 22), but when I try to apply it to my voice I can’t sustain as long.
I tried doing the “hissss” with a stop watch and saw that when I breathe in from my chest I can go up to 40 seconds, yet when a breath from my diaphragm/abdominal muscle I can only last a maximum of 30, why is that?
Can you teach how to do those trills? Um those vocal runs in r and b music. Ariana grande, Whitney houston Christina Aguilera does them. I mentioned them because I am not sure of the term. Even just to get an idea to include it in my technique.
