“Sing from the diaphgram,”  is perhaps the most moronic singing instruction ever taught.

The diaphgram moves on it’s own by reflex.  You do not control it, build it or need to strengthen it. 

Yes, it moves and pushes air out of the lungs.  This is a  REACTION to the vocal requirements. 

Do you control your diaphgram when you just normall breathe?  How about when you talk?  How about when you cough or hiccup or yawn or shout or talk?    Nope, and you should’t worry about controlling the diaphgram when you sing.

So the question becomes, ” how should I control my breathing when I sing.”

Very simply arch your sternum up and forward and breath straight into your upper  chest.  Why?  That is where your lungs are silly.  The belly doesn’t hold any air, breathing to the diaphragm does literlly nothing.  Expand the rib cage and keep the sternum up and the rib cage expanded during all singing and just let the diaphgram naturally do it’s thing. 

Guess what it will do a better job without you trying to control it.

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If you are are currently using shure 58’s you owe it to yourself to check out mics that are in the same pricerange but are much better suited to live performance and sound better.

A list of mics that sound and perform better to check out would be:

• audix om5, om6, om7
• Sennhieser 945e & 935
• Electro voice ND 967

There are a bunch of other mics that probably sound better too, but those are the ones I’ve tried myself.  Simply put the shure 58’s are old news.

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This is tottally wrong.  A rock scream or rasp can be achieved with just as much ease as a clean tone.  In fact if done right, sometimes it’s even easier than singing in clean tone.

What the technique is called is, “vocal fry.”   What vocal fry really is, is the vocal cords having minute spaces between them where they would normally be closed off.  Imagine a zipper that has come apart is various spots, but is still connected at the top and bottom.  These spaces are what cause the broken up tone.

The easiest way to experience vocal fry is to make a very slight moaning sound. The sound that is typical of any person first waking in the morning.   Because there is very little energy and the vocal cords are just barely moving, it causes this space, and the broken up fry tone. 

Experiment until you can make this fry sound, easily, at a very slight almost in audible level.  Memorize the feeling.

Now sing a clean tone.  Now try to mix that fry into it.  It’s key to remember that singing with a vocal fry on your tone makes singing feel kind of floppy and loose in the throat.  So, if you have bad tone even with your clean tone and force and push it’s going to be difficult to do a vocal fry tone correctly.

The next thing to consider is mask placement.  Just like your clean tone you need mask placement.  The vocal fry creates vibrations that are very easily felt.  These vibrations should be felt in the head cavities, that is up in the soft pallet or hard pallet or even behind the nose, depending on the pitch.  You, DO NOT, want to have the vocal fry felt deep in the throat. 

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