how can i breathe from my diaphragm?

Question

i want to be a singer but i don't know how to breathe frome my diaphragm?

Answer 1

to breathe from your diaphram, put one hand on your stirnum and the other down lower. Push your belly out and then in. Breathe.

Answer 2

The best thing to do would be to have a teacher show tou that. But anyway, the thing is, you don't breathe "in" your diaphragm. You just breathe only in the lower part of your lungs an push the air with your diaphragm. Actually, this is the normal, natural breathing. When you sleep, you do it unconciensly. So...practice it in the morning, still in bed, right after you woke up, trying to restore your breathing while sleeping. you should feel that only a small part of your body is moving: the one between your chest and your stomach, extend, horizntally, to the side. Your chest shouldn't move at all and to feel that your belly is moving is also wrong. Don't try too hardto move those muscles. Just keep it natural, and after sme days of exercising you will shorely succeed. Good luck!

Answer 3

Try this: Relax and take a few deep breaths while allowing your belly to expand and retract during the breaths. This is breathing from the diaphragm. Now take a few more deep breaths, but breathe holding your abdomen muscles in and instead allowing your chest to retract. This is not breathing from the diaphragm, you will feel the difference. You may like this article: www.vocalist.org.uk/breath_ control.html

Answer 4

If you breathe in through your nose deeply while expanding your chest you will be using your diaphragm to breathe. Exhale through your mouth. This is very important in singing. If you are singing you will be doing this automatically without even thinking of it. Take deeper breaths to hold a note or to get a lot of words out before running out of air. Or sometimes you may have to take a back breath to get through a song part. In other words you may have to breath while you are holding a note.

Answer 5

One thing that my teacher had me do that might sound weird at first, but really worked was lay down on either you stomach or your back. If your on your stomach: breathe in and try to make your stomach push into the ground. That will get the muscles working and really get you to feel how it works. If you lay down on your back: put a light ball on your stomach and when you breathe in and out make sure you can see the ball going up and down. In order to get the feeling of this these are good exercises, but in order to do it regularly it is about muscle memory. Hope this helps and happy singing!!

Answer 6

you can't. your diaphragm is an invoulintaey muscle. Many teachers say this to get you to visualize filling your lungs from the bottom up. You actually use your abs when you breathe correctly.