From the course: Vocal Lessons: 2 Singing Songs Better

What about your stomach?

From the course: Vocal Lessons: 2 Singing Songs Better

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What about your stomach?

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- Anybody ever tell you that when you sing, you need to push your stomach in or like, pull it in in a controlled motion. Any directions you've ever received regarding your belly? Breathing, etc. Many have. So what about it? What about the stomach? Early on in my teaching, I noticed more and more of the singers that I was working with would be applying many of the fundamentals but I still heard a certain kind of tension in their voice and I wasn't really sure, cause I was still formulating a lot of things. I wasn't really sure what it was coming from. And one day, I remember looking at someone in front of me and I realized, their belly, they were pulling their belly in. And I thought, hmm. Well, I know enough about anatomy of singing, and I know what that could be doing. What you're about to learn yourself. So, the thing about pulling the stomach in or having any kind of belly tension is, muscles coordinate, so when this area is tight, it immediately reflects here. It's incredible and it will always happen. Tension here, tension here. Release here, it may feel weird at first if you're accustomed to singing that way, but, you know, step by step you get accustomed to a new sensation, which leads toward much greater freedom of singing, much easier singing and often, a much bigger voice, in terms of, I don't know, just having more sound to it. So, if you've been told to use your stomach when you're singing, now's your chance, let it go.

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