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Resolving traditional confusions

Resolving traditional confusions

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Resolving traditional confusions

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- I've mentioned a little bit, earlier in our lessons, that there are some traditional confusions about singing and breathing and you may have heard quite a number of them. Or you may have had some teacher passing on to you some of these traditional ways of thinking, which actually never got fully, we'll call it, exposed to the light, and matched up with physiological truth. We're gonna do that now. Here are a few of the key confusions that I've heard floating around. So, the first is, breathing into the stomach. The way to breathe is breathe into your stomach or fill your stomach with air. You ever hear that? Now that you've gone through the physiology of the voice with me, earlier, you know that you can't breathe into the stomach, that's where your intestines are and air only goes into your lungs, not your belly. We've also cleared up why it is that the stomach does move forward a bit when you inhale, which of course has to do with the lowering diaphragm squishing the organs…

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