How do you sing from your diaphragm?

Question

Ok can someone pls explain as descriptively as possible how to sing from your diaphragm? I have been trying for so many months with no results....PLS HELP!

Answer 1

When singing, BREATHE from your diaphragm. (Expand your abdomen while you inhale deeply -- instead of lifting your shoulders). Practice breath control by singing a single note while trying to bend (not blow out) the flame of a candle or lighter.

Singers practice singing with an open throat and resonating the sound through the nasal sinuses. (Practice singing a scale using the syllables no-no-no).

Answer 2

There are many ways to practice this but you begin by finding your best posture to allign you diaphragm with you your lungs and chest muscles. Some people learn hou to do this by lying on the ground bushing their butt up into the air and then making sure their back is flact against the floor. Other push their butt against the back of the chair they are sitting in and the prop their shoulders over thie hips trying to get their back flat against the back of the chair. and if you are trying this standing listen to the marine drill seargeants who stomach in chest out shoulders back stand at ease. Assuming your posture is correct focus on your breathing next. The reason some people project better than others is the amount of air they can put behind each note they sing. Your lungs can only give you so much power. Your lungs and your diaphagm together give more than enough power to fill a large auditorium. Start by testing your voice on complete exhale and see how little power you have. It will be next to imposible to hear more than a whisper. You then can start practicing long slow controlled breathing, inhaling slow aaand then holding it and then exhaling it slow and steady to see how long you can exhale on one breath. With practice your breathing pattern will lengthen as your control over your lungs and your diaphagm increase. Next comes the single note. WIth a full deep breath begin a single note trying to hold it steady for as long as possible. Do this for awhile until you are confident with that duration. Next try and increase the amount of your volume by singing from the pit of your stomach and bringing it forwards as loudly and as powerfully as you can. Your duration will shorten but your projection will be amplified. Keep trying this until you feel you have reached your maximum projection. After that you begin working on scales starting at the lowerst not you can hit and moving your way progressively to the highest note you can hit. Practice these exercises regularly to increse your volume and strengthen your wind power. The vast majority of the quality of your notes comes from the diaphragm and not the throat. Anyone can sing falsetto but few actually sound good at it. The same goes for bass, You can dig for a low note and it will crumble in mid air. Find your comfortable range and learn to arrange your songs to fit that range. You may not be a lead singer. Then again you may be the exception to the rule and sing as a true baratone or contralto. The only way to know is to practice infront of a teacher and let them tell you when you are losing your tone, coming under the note so to speak. Some call it being pitchy others call it being flat. Fidure out what your register is and sing yourself crazy.

One more thing, ALWAYS leave enough air in your body to bring in the next breath easily or the microphones will pick up your breathing. Time breaths to meet natural pauses in the music.

NOTE: You will know when you are doing things wrong if you can feel the sound you are making in the back of your teeth. The vibration of your vocal chords should not have this effect if you are not straining them to hold or hit a note. Plus when you sing from your diaphagm the vibrations go forward and not up or down or side ways.

Good Luck.

Answer 3

My daughter is a singer and said that her voice comes from her knees! I believe that "singing from your diaphragm" is like controlling the expelled air when you sing...just let it flow out steadily from deep inside you when you sing. I hope that helps...I'm still trying to figure out how my daughter sings from her knees! lol

Answer 4

Practice singing while your nose is pinched closed, and breath using your mouth only. You will know if you are not singing using your diaphram if you sound "nasal", and you kinda feel the singing vibration in your nose. You know that you are singing properly if it kinda feels like you have a stuffy nose. Don't forget to stand up nice and straight. You'll get used to it.

Answer 5

Tighten your little stomach muscles to push the air from your lungs. Try singing without tightening your stomach (my music teacher liked to call this a throat screech lol) then tighten your stomach and you will notice a difference.

Answer 6

This is a good question! I've wondered what that meant ever since the comedy skit by Steve Martin in the 70's : )