Tuesday 7th October 2014
Breath Control
A strong singer will have strong breath control, because all good singers will know how to use their breath to benefit them and their performance. As you increase your control over your breathing you increase your control of the performance.
Actors also will control their breath when speaking, especially in classical theatre with the works from Shakespeare, as they abide by the punctuation so if there isn't a full stop or comma to breath, they can't breath. Therefore, breath control is vital for a great performance.
Breath control is important to use whether it's when warming up or during a performance. Using breath control before a performance helps to relax and get you into character if you're acting in a play of a musical. In musical theatre, an emotional song would need strongly regulated breathing to get the intense emotion portrayed behind it effectively. Breath control is something that can benefit a singer or an actor when it's needed most in a performance of in class.
Breath control can also help:
- Rhythm
- Reducing/releasing tension
- Increasing air flow
- Increasing vocal stamina
- Freeing and relaxing the voice
- Sustaining vocal quality
- Holding longer notes
One way of regulating your breathing is laying flat on the floor and breathing in for four, holding for four and the releasing for four. This sort of pattern will increase the rhythm of how you breathing works. Counting the amount of breath intakes your doing and controlling them will help you have more power over your breath and improve overall breath control.
Breath control is a very easy thing to get you head round so use it for your advantage and really practise how much control you have over it. Breath control also links to using your diaphragm which is a significant part of singing. Everything we're learning is interlinking with each other and is all important to know about!
Hope you enjoyed and learned something new!
Good Luck,
Somer x
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