VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

[Deirdre]

Chris--
Diaphragmatic support is necessary for breath control.



The diaphragm is that red saddle of muscle that supports your lungs.

You need to understand the biomechanics of your respiration so you can have mastery over your air flow while speaking. You need it for both soft and loud vocalizing. When you're singing, you need to know how much you're projecting and know to back off the mic on crescendos.

It's better, though, to learn how to fill a performance space without a mic. Some of the up-and-coming-actors I've seen at castings can't project off the edge of the danged stage.
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[Christopher French]

Thank you Deirdre ! One way I know to get the diaphram in shape is to play my good ol' clarinet. I remember when I was on stage, our director did teach us a technique for pushing our voices to the back of a theater. He told us that we needed to lift our soft palate and push the air out with our diaphram. I was also told this in vocal lessons, but it also makes the voice sound different, at least when you're singing, and, for some reason, when I sing like that, I want to yawn. I don't want to do that behind the mic when I'm recording copy for someone! That'd be embarrassing, not to mention, potentially career threatening.

Chris
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Christopher G. French

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