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IN THIS CHAPTER

Getting down to the brass tacks of breath control

Inhaling and expanding your body

Exhaling and extending your breath

Discovering how your body moves while breathing

How you manage your breath when you sing can drastically change the sound of your singing voice. If you try to hold your breath and sing, it doesn’t work. You also can’t sing a loud phrase without using some air — that is, without exhaling. Most people think of exhaling as involving air, not sound. When you sing, exhaling encompasses both at the same time. Although breathing is natural — you don’t have to think about it — when you sing, you need to train your body to breathe in a certain way so that you breathe efficiently throughout an entire song. You don’t want to run out of breath in the middle of a word. The exercises in this chapter help you master breath control so you can sing through all those long phrases in your favorite songs with ease.

Try not to push yourself too quickly when you’re working on breath. Work slowly and allow the movements described in this chapter to become habit.