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Position:Home>Theater & Acting> If I'm using my diaphragm correctly?Question: If I'm using my diaphragm correctly!? If I'm using my diaphragm correctly, what should it feel like when I sing!? I sing a lot around the house and when no one is home I really belt out, and I wanted to try and use my diaphragm (because I think I am singing from my throat!?), so I've been doing so!.!.!.so how does it feel when you are using it correctly!?
Should my abs feel tight and my stomach puffed out!?Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: When you sing using your diaphragm, your abs should be tightened and right below your sternum you should feel you diaphragm working!. Try this to test: 1!. Try singing a very relaxing not strenous note in ur range!. 2!. Feel your diphragm to see if it's tighteneing and flexing!. 3!. You should be able to feel it vibrate a bit!. To know when ur singing in your throat: 1!. You will feel it!. Usually to sing very high scale notes you have to use a little throat, however try and tighten your abs and use that diaphragm!. Hope this helps!. Any questions contact me!. Happy to help you!. --ColeWww@QuestionHome@Com I know this is gonna sound strange, but try it!.!.!. Stand up really Straight and breathe with your gut, not your chest!.!.!.Seriously!.!.!. Take a few really deep breaths and only use your gut muscles to breathe!.!.!.Feel how deep that is !? See how much more air you can get in your lungs !? And when you exhale, use your gut muscles as well!.!.!.Deeper!.!.!.Got it !?!? Now belt out a few notes!.!.!.!.Feel the difference !?Www@QuestionHome@Com You put that in your mouth !? Huh !?Www@QuestionHome@Com When you breathe out and produce a tone, if you're doing it correctly the part of your stomach directly underneath your sternum should puff out a tiny bit, and your lower abs should indeed feel a bit tighter when you do this!. However, the place where the diaphragm comes into play is actually before that; the diaphragm is a flat, vaguely sheet-like muscle underneath your lungs that controls how you breathe in!. When you breathe in, the diaphragm flexes downward, which causes your lungs to expand, which then causes them to fill up with air through the windpipe!. It's for this reason that I've always hated the phrase "breathe from the diaphragm;" it's impossible NOT to breathe with your diaphragm, and thus the statement can be very misleading if you hear it without a knowledgeable voice teacher there to explain what it means!. What the phrase is specifically referring to is that you should not use any other muscles in your upper body when you breathe in; if other muscles are tensed up in the process, you prevent your lungs from expanding fully in all directions!. When you breathe in properly, and you're not flexing any muscles besides your diaphragm, you should feel the front, sides, and back of your midsection naturally fill up like a balloon, including the back of your ribcage expanding!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |