How to Do Vocal Training for Breath Control

How to Do Vocal Training for Breath Control

Breath control is only one of many elements of singing. If you do not develop a good breathing technique while singing, you can breathe at an inopportune times or sing with less than optimal timbre. Singers do breathing exercises to become better at controlling their diaphragm muscles.
Medical conditions aside, the typical singer just need to learn breath control while singing.

• Candle
• Matches or lighter
• stopwatch or clock (optional)
• Timing and Pacing

1 Take a deep breath for more than four seconds. Pace yourself so that you inhale evenly.

2 Hold your breath for four seconds.
3 Breathe out evenly over four seconds.
4 Wait four seconds before repeating the process from step 1. Repeat the exercise a few times from step one

Candle exercise

5  Light a candle and hold it so that the wick is about half a meter away from your mouth.
6  Take a deep breath.
7  Pucker your lips like you’re going to blow the flame out.
8  blow the candle, allowing you to bend causing the flame, but not out.
9  Count how many seconds you can blow into the fire.
10 Repeat the exercise and try the duration you can blow flame during bending, but not put to enlarge it.

Volume

11  Take a deep breath.
12  Make your normal speaking level, the “sss” sound out the words “snake” or “Sally”.
13  Maintenance same volume and sound quality for as long as you can by exhaling into a steady pace, while the timing of the term. If you do it right you will make in emulating the “sizzle” sound a snake.
14  Repeat the exercise and try to increase how long you can perform the exercise.