BREATHING FOR SPEECH LEVEL SINGING™

People tend to take their breathing for granted. It’s just something you do. If I were to ask you to take a breath, you would consciously control your inhale and it would be tense. Then, as soon as your mind focused on something else, your body would take over the act again, automatically. The goal of Speech Level Singing™ is to keep the voice automatic and natural.

Your lungs act like bellows in the way they draw air into your body and exhale it out again. But your lungs are useless without your diaphragm muscle, which does the pushing and pulling on your lungs to make them work during the act of speaking, singing and just breathing for life.

When the electrical signal, or order, comes from your brain to breathe, and arrives at the nerve endings that surround the diaphragm muscle, the nerves contract and release in a synapse.

This action then pushes against the bellows (lungs) and is directed through the strengthened vocal folds creating a sound which is then omitted throughout the cavities of ones scull and then out the mouth.

Breathing should be very simple. A singer should fill his lungs up with air starting at the bottom. This is where the lungs connect to the diaphragm.