Dear Karen and Vocalisters:
Thank you for your ideas about the necessary ease of the inhale which
is crucial to any form of breath management.
The onset exercises (a la Miller) also include offset as a part of
the exercise. I have found that emphasizing clean offsets at the end
of a tone requires an ever so slight pulse of breath. This breath
pulse is followed by a rebound of the breathing mechanism which is in
the direction of the inhale. In other words, the exhaling pulse,
slight as it is, rebounds into an inhaling mode. Taking a breath
after a properly executed offset then becomes automatic and removes
the need to try to inhale.
Miller expands his onset/offset exercises into multiples of 2, 3, 4,
5, and even 6 onsets/offsets with a conscious breath after each of
the multiples even though there is a natural, small rebound breath
after each offset.
I have used these series of exercises for many years and they almost
always provide the student singer with a most natural approach to
breath management that develops as an almost automatic response to
the offset portion of the exercises.
--
Lloyd W. Hanson, DMA
Professor of Voice, Pedagogy
School of Performing Arts
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ 86011
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