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Question: How to sing from the stomach!?
I mean, I can sing and all, but I'm not doing it right!. When I sing, it feels like I'm holding my breath!. And I always try to sing sitting down, but I need to know the right posture to sing better!. I don't wanna sound nasal or short of breath from my nose!. And I'm alto, and sometimes I can be a tenor!. I'm a GIRL by the way!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


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The best way without damaging anything is to lie on the floor and putting your handon your stomach!.

Now, breathe in an out!. The hand should rise and fall!. That is how you sing through the diaphram!.

when you yell, you blow from the stomach and when you sing , that is how the volume is controlled!. The harder you push the abdomen, the louder you will sing!.

When you stand up, put your hand on your stomach to make sure you are doing it right!.
If all goes well, you should be able to sing hours on end, 7 days a week!. If the throat hurts, then you are not using the diaphram!.

Simple but , that is the way!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

ok, so first things first!.
posture!.!. lift your arms horizontally on each side and up straight and then put your arms down without moving your back or stomach or anything, you should be able to have an incisible string be pulling you up!. to sing with your stomach, make sure that when you inhale, only your stomach inflates, not your chest or neck!. when you sing, put your hand on your diaphragm and push in using the air powerfully, not singing airily, if that makes sense!. another technique is to lay down on the ground as stretched out as possible length and stretchhh and then breathe in and out making sure only to use your stomach, get used to this feeling and then you can do it standing up!!Www@QuestionHome@Com

This is kinda hard to explain online, and so many people will tell you different things that aren't always right, so getting a private teacher would be your best bet!

Okay so blow on your hand like you would blow out birthday candles or like you're trying to cool off hot food!. The air should be cold!. Now blow on your hand like its a really cold day and you're trying to warm up your hands!. The air should be hot!. The second was is the right way of breathing when you sing!. It also kinda like yawning!. also, when you breathe in to sing, your shoulders shouldn't rise!. Instead, your stomach should go out!. And then when you release your air, your stomach should go in!. If your shoulders go up, you know you're not breathing from your stomach! And always make sure you are pushing the air out!. Keep the air moving! I had like, almost the same problem!. But I got a voice teacher and she helped me!. =]

I hope this helped, at least a little!Www@QuestionHome@Com

i've had this problem before but i had coaching!. try to open your throat and do it standing up!. if you wanna learn how to breathe right just lay down!. you can't breathe wrong when you laying down!. then you just gotta be able to do it standing up!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

when you breath in, push your stomach out, when you breath out, bring your stomach back in!. this method allows more oxygen to get into you lungs so that you wont choke on a note and be short of breath!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Hmm!.!.How to sing with your stomach!.!.!.Um!.!.!.if you go couple of hours without food, you'll hear it's melody!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com