Hello and welcome, so in today's video I am going to go through a very quick and easy breathing
routine with you. Now in this routine I'm not going to focus on exercises where you take a long
sustained inhale and a long sustained exhale. I think those are wonderful and I've plenty of
those exercises in the breathing routine I have posted before which I have linked down below.
Today I'm going to focus on taking really really quick inhales and exhales. And I'm doing that
for two reasons number one when you're singing and you need to take a breath between a phrase,
between two phrases, you don't have all day to take that breath and quite often as singers
we end up taking a really, really shallow breath which is so bad for our voice and it doesn't sound
great either. And so it's really important to actually practice taking a good supportive breath
quickly. Secondly I love these exercises because you can really physically feel and sometimes even
see your intercostal muscles working and your abdominal muscles working so let me show you
what I mean and then we can begin. So you're going to put one hand on your ribcage and you're going
to put one hand on your stomach and what you're going to do is, we're going to start off, we're
going to take five really, really quick inhales and five exhales, one, two, three, four, five
Okay now it's your turn you're going to take five inhales and
five exhales and you're gonna do that five times
Okay for our next exercise you're going to take five
quick inhales and ten quick exhales so let's do that together
And you're going to do that for me 10 times
Okay now we're going to move on to something slightly more challenging
we're going to count to eight and we're going to inhale eight times and exhale
eight times. What I love about this exercise is that you can make it more and more challenging
for yourself but the trick is to keep each breath separate at all times and if it's
too fast for you then just slow it down. So in your head I want you to count like this,
in two three four five six seven eight, out two three four five six seven eight,
in two three four five six seven eight, out two three four five six seven eight, and so you can
speed that up or slow that down. You can use a metronome and it's just a great way of practicing
your rhythm also. So one hand on your rib cage and one hand on your tummy and let's do that together
Or we could do it faster one two three four and
Okay so now I want you to do that exercise for me eight times
The only way to really benefit from this breathing routine is to do it as often
as you possibly can and incorporate it into your singing.
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