I've been really paying attention lately, and realised that my problem
isn't that I actually run out of breath - it's that I occasionally impede
the flow of the breath, usually by tensing either my midriff or my jaw or
tongue. The reason I say I haven't actually run out of breath is that I've
done an experiment: If there's a particular phrase that I find I cannot
CONSISTENTLY get through on a single breath, but which I CAN get through
sometimes on a single breath, I try two things while singing that phrase:
I move my arms while singing, to make sure my midriff doesn't "lock up".
I make the consonants very "explosive", which automatically releases my
tongue and jaw.
I find that the bodily motion and the repeated releasing of the tongue/jaw
conquer the "unable to get through the phrase" problems - so that my main
work after that is to tone down the body movement to subtle, visually
acceptable proportions, and to tone down the explosive consonants to the
point where they still provide the release without sounding ridiculously
over-emphasised.
Karen Mercedes
http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html
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