Breath support

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CountryGal

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I'm a newbie to the forums, but I have been singing for some time. I do currently have a vocal coach and I have made significant improvements over the last year. My biggest obstacle right now seems to be holding those notes. We do work on this during some of my sessions and it seems easy to do while I'm there with my coach. Unfortunately, my mind has yet to register that "feeling" so I can take what I learned home to practice.

I thought maybe you all could chime in with some pointers or different methods I could use to train myself to keep holding on without takin a "save me" breath. I am familiar with the correct technique, ie. not singing from my lungs, using my diaphragm, etc. It's just that I can't seem to overcome these ol bad habits.

Any suggestions?

God Bless,
CountryGal
 
Welcome to the forums!

Correct singing involves using the minimum tension of breath and vocal cords required for each tone.

A classic book on this is "Caruso's Method Of Voice Production", by P. Mario Marafioti, which goes into this in detail.
It's a Dover paperback you can purchase for under $10.
Absolutely essential!

Chris
 
...or you can read every post by every chris in this forum. It must be co-incident, but should I change my name to Chris to be good singer ? :D


...anyway, Welcome to the board, CountryGal :)



;)
Jaymz
 
I married a 'lil Texan gal AKA a "Country Gal".

James, I'm just rated an intermediate acapella singer,
in terms of singing skill, by my peer group. Which means it's around that
of your typical Top 40 singer-can sing on key if practiced enough-otherwise
break out the autotune. :)

Chris
 
So that was your wifey, eh ? :D What a lucky guy :)
So should I call Country Gal Mrs. chessparov ? :D
 
In my experience being able to hold a long tone is partly a matter of breating in a lot of air to start with, partly a matter of using the air you do have efficiently in producing the tone and partly a matter of learning how far you can push youself past the point where your instincts say 'hey bub, time to breathe in'
 
Sorry for the confusion James, she's a different "Country Gal"
than the other one here. :)

Innovations, actually that is NOT the most efficient way to breath.

The idea is to keep a BALANCE of the minimum breath needed for
any tone, long or short, and the minimum tension needed from the vocal cords. I highly encourage anyone to get the book mentioned in a couple of posts before, as it will do a far superior job in explaining this to you (and other principles) than yours truly.

Chris
 
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