Diaphragm and Voice Control: How it helps to improve Performance

The diaphragm is one of the key muscles of respiration. In singing and speaking, it’s important for producing different pitches and tones, as well as for volume and resonance. Because if you don’t use diaphragm as a support for your voice, you will use other parts of your body to ‘support’, e.g. throat, neck, facial muscles, etc and these affect how relaxed your voice sounds.
To produce a pitch or tone, air needs to move up and down to pass through our vocal cords as our voice is a wind instrument. And the diaphragm is crucial for this process. Control of breathing also affects how well you can produce a voice. If you want to be able to control your breathing and perform at your best, this article will show you how.

To practice diaphragmatic breathing, first lie down and close your eyes. Then, take a few slow, easy breaths, expanding your abdomen with the inhale. When you exhale, relax your abdomen and let the air leave your lungs. There are many ways to do this, but the most important thing is to focus on relaxing your abdominals and observe how it moves, externally and internally.

In order to control your breathing, you need to be aware of it. You can’t control something if you don’t even realize it’s happening. At Hark Music School, we have curated many common postures, activities that naturally promotes diaphragmatic breathing! Because in fact – all of use are born breathing diaphragmatically! With these postures/activities, in no time – you will be conditioned to breathe better and deeper!