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In this free online voice lesson, Berklee College of Music professor and Berklee Online course author and instructor Anne Peckham demonstrates how to breathe when singing.
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About Anne Peckham:
Anne Peckham is a singer, voice teacher, and author, whose work has influenced popular singing pedagogy worldwide. A professor in the Voice department at Berklee College of Music, Anne teaches private voice lessons and develops curricular materials for “Elements of Vocal Technique,” a required course for all vocal students. Her work at the college, which has included Berklee’s Musical Theater Workshop and the Berklee Concert Choir, has helped enrich the musical experience of hundreds of students over the years.
Anne has traveled extensively as a voice clinician and adjudicator for song and choral festivals in North America, Mexico, and Europe. Her master classes and vocal pedagogy seminars for students and teachers embrace the foundations of good vocal technique, while building skills in rock, jazz, pop, and R’n’B music. She is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and served as vice president on the Boston chapter’s board of directors.
Anne sang with the Tanglewood Festival chorus for four years, performing on two recordings with the Boston Pops, including a featured solo in their televised Gilbert and Sullivan presentation, which aired on PBS. She has performed with regional theater companies, has worked as a professional soloist with area church choirs, and performs frequently in recital and cabaret venues. In 2006 Anne appeared in the TV reality series Trial by Choir, a show featured on the Learning Channel. Additionally, she was featured on the children’s television show Fetch in 2007.
Anne is the author Vocal Workouts for the Contemporary Singer, The Contemporary Singer: Elements of Vocal Technique, Berklee in the Pocket: Singer’s Handbook, and the instructional DVD Vocal Technique: Developing Your Voice for Performance.
nice info gracias
whow. That was really helpful, thank you ^^
Love this video!
Thank you very much!
This is a great video, but do you have any exercise suggestions for
improving the length of time you can sustain the exhaling “hiss?” I can’t
get past 12 seconds….
thank you thank you thank you!!!
thank you. i made 20 sec on the 1st hissing and 17 sec 2nd hissing.. great
vid
Hey, great channel, I like your stuff, and everything sounds great! Keep up
the good work. ~Brien
How do you expand the area around the diaphragm substantially? I can’t seem
to expand it much, if not at all, and I feel this tightness and strain
around that area.
thank you so much for he tips you’ve given.,. you’re not like others, that
making only joking.,., so THANK YOU SO MUCH!!,. HOPE YOU’D POST MANY AS YOU
CAN
Hi. Great video. Thank you so much. I can hissing between 17 and 22 sec But
i have one problem 🙂 after repeated 2.3 times i missing air in the
lungs…. any proposal to solve it,any help?
This video was amazing 🙂 Thank you so much you have great talent.
Your speaking is very clear for a non English-speaking guy. Thank you so
much for the lesson. Just great.
im going to berklee for college music major baby
i stop at 50 seconds
thank you someone finally explains this perfectly to me..the best video for
learning how to sing through diaphram
32 sec ! 😀
I’m totally singing the wrong way, and it hurts so badly! So thx
Oh my god, I don’t breath in five minutes ^_^
is it from your nose out and in out of your mounth ?
how does her stomach expand when breathing in. mine is opposite
Wooow my lungs are week… I stop at 10 lol! I guess ill just need to
practice more.
excellent teacher , thank you millions of times ….
This helped MILLIONS! Thank you very much 🙂 <3
I don’t get it!
this is what my vocal teacher says too, but I find it so much harder to
breathe this way when singing because I can’t do it fast enough in between
when I have the time and I find it hurts :s is this normal? shes telling me
she hears a difference when i sing and breathe right, but I dont notice any
change AT ALL. Help?
thank you very much!! this helped me.
thank you … so much….. helps a lot
Me too!! It’s hard for me
You are finding it hard to expand when breathing because are out of
practice. When we are little children we naturally breathe correctly. Then
as we mature we observe others breathing incorrectly (trying to keep their
tummies small all the time from vanity) and we model them and start
breathing incorrectly. We have to re-train ourselves. It will feel funny at
first. Then amazingly natural. Good luck!
Not if Ur a screamo/rock singer with keep the air in Ur lower body like she
explained but we have to flex as hard as u can or else when we scream were
gonna let our air out faster a we crack high pitched notes
Hai maam as what I observed to singers and have powerful voice like ailee
(korean-american singer) and charice pempengco (filipino singer) they
raised their chest when they inhale,,,,,, and i tried your tips but its
hard because i cant sing well pleas post other tips maam
does this practice apply to how to breathe when speaking as well?
The chest should descend while exhaling, otherwise the abdominals which are
the expiratory muscles lose their ability to resist against the inspiration
tensions.
I noticed she breathing through her mouth versus her nose. So singers
always are taking a breathe in through their mouth when singing ? It seems
you can get more air if you breathe through the nose. Or is it a preference
or is it the only way to breathe a effectively when signing? I am novice.
thanks, very informative and practical!
Thank you very much! Now, I sing much better! :)
omg thank you! This is the only video that actually helped me!! :)
you breath in through your mouth for singing I’ve been doing it wrong
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