Use Your Diaphragm Correctly for Singing

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Hi! You're watching VisiHow. This is a video tutorial series on how to sing. In the previous tutorial, we discussed how sing using solfeggio. In this video tutorial, we're going to teach you how to properly use your diaphragm.

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   The diaphragm is the muscle directly below the ribcage and lungs

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   When you take a breath and inhale, the diaphragm expands and pushes down to allow the lungs to fill themselves with air.

   

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   When you exhale, you release the capacity of air from the lungs

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   Your diaphragm moves up to expel the rest of the air. Your diaphragm is the most important muscle when breathing because without it, you would not have the flexibility of breathing normally.

   

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   When singing, you have to know how to control your diaphragm

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   It will create a good foundation for your breath.

   

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   Find the points of your oblique muscles where your kidneys are

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   Around these points, are you will feel that this is the softest part of your abdominal wall where you can actually feel the diaphragm expanding.

   

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   When you take a breath, try to concentrate on the area from step 4 in order to feel the expansion

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   Place your hands on your waist and take a breath. Push your hands into your waist slightly in order to identify the expansion. The abdominal wall should expand a little when you inhale and when you exhale. You should feel the expansion of the area from step 4. It will allow us to feel the diaphragm at work in order to create good breathing.

   

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   Let's try one more time

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   Breath in. Feel the expansion. Hold and release it.

   

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