Quote Of The Day:
Most chick singers say “if you hurt me, I’ll die”… I say, “if you hurt me, I’ll kick your ass” – Pat Benetar
And she sings it like she means it. Don’t we all want to be that kind of confident singer who can sell a song with great emotion, bang on pitch and power. Great breathing is the foundation to delivering a song in that way. In my first blog posting I stressed the importance of correct breathing in the performance of a song. Once you have your singer’s breath happening correctly, here is the next step in making the song feel and sound effortless in it’s delivery, maintain great pitch and access your power.
Regulating The Breath
In the performance of a song, each phrase will vary in length. It is important that you learn to regulate your breathing for each individual line, or phrase, of a song. You don’t want to take in a maximum size breath when you only have a 4-word phrase to sing. Having too much leftover, or residual air, at the end of a phrase will cause problems. For example, when performing a song, each new breath may require varying degrees of the capacity of your air tank to be used. A phrase or line of a song with 4 or 5 words in your lower range may only need 30% of the total air capacity in your tank, while another phrase that has 10 words, is in a higher range, and needs power to project may need 100% of the total air capacity in your tank. Where the notes in a song sit in your range, how much air you let escape around your tone for emotional effects, how much power you want to sing a phrase with and the length of a phrase are all determining factors as to how much air, or tank capacity, you need to take in between breathing points.
Learning to identify and regulate the amount of air needed for each phrase will rapidly become second nature. The song will always give you clues as to what it needs from you, breathing-wise, with each phrase. You will understand this more when we talk about “mapping out” a song later in upcoming blogs.
Until next time…Breathe and Happy Singing!
Angela
www.5pointsingingsystem.com
www.angelakelman.com
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