Very useful, thank you. Some vocal coaches advocate keeping the ribcage expanded, regardless of inhalation or exhalation. I find this approach quite uncomfortable, and conducive to tension. Any views?
Keeping the ribcage expanded is a breath management strategy that works well for some singers, and not at all for others. I define breath management (aka support) as whatever you do to regulate your subglottal breath pressure when you sing. Keeping the ribcage expanded can help to sustain a high level of subglottal breath pressure, because this keeps the muscles of inspiration engaged in a way that decelerates breath release. However, there are plenty of other ways to do this, and the way that will work best depends on how your body likes to breathe. So if it's uncomfortable, it's not a good strategy for you. Even if it isn't uncomfortable, if it feels effortful it also is probably not a good approach, because the extent to which you maintain this expansion should feel easy and buoyant, eventually just becoming an integrated component of your singing coordination that you do not notice all that much in performance.
@@marielynetremblay4113 I'm going to be talking to my online Vocal Fundamentals class about breath management this coming Sunday at 3pm ET. Let me know if you are free and would like to sit in on the class and I'll send you instructions to join the Zoom call, claudia at claudiafriedlander dot com
This is so perfect for what I'm sure we all go through. It's amazing how we tend to hold our breath when we are anxious or tense. Thank you!
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Thank you so much! I learned alot.
my question is, does tention in breathing affect when you're in a situation when you feel nervous or scared?
Very useful, thank you. Some vocal coaches advocate keeping the ribcage expanded, regardless of inhalation or exhalation. I find this approach quite uncomfortable, and conducive to tension. Any views?
Keeping the ribcage expanded is a breath management strategy that works well for some singers, and not at all for others.
I define breath management (aka support) as whatever you do to regulate your subglottal breath pressure when you sing. Keeping the ribcage expanded can help to sustain a high level of subglottal breath pressure, because this keeps the muscles of inspiration engaged in a way that decelerates breath release. However, there are plenty of other ways to do this, and the way that will work best depends on how your body likes to breathe. So if it's uncomfortable, it's not a good strategy for you.
Even if it isn't uncomfortable, if it feels effortful it also is probably not a good approach, because the extent to which you maintain this expansion should feel easy and buoyant, eventually just becoming an integrated component of your singing coordination that you do not notice all that much in performance.
Thank you so much! Makes a lot of sense.@@ClaudiaFriedlander
@@marielynetremblay4113 I'm going to be talking to my online Vocal Fundamentals class about breath management this coming Sunday at 3pm ET. Let me know if you are free and would like to sit in on the class and I'll send you instructions to join the Zoom call, claudia at claudiafriedlander dot com