#1: Support Your Sound!
I’ve heard this my whole life: “you must support to sing!” “Use those abdominal muscles!” For me, and for many others, this causes much from-the-outside-in trying and efforting. Singing becomes a chore. It seems mechanical, linear, external and unnatural.
It turns out the opposite is true.
Everyone already knows how to sing. Everyone is a singer. Only you are telling yourself otherwise. Singing, at its core, is an instinct first, a skill second.
In your brain, you have an impulse to sing, which means you hear a note in your mind and inner ear.
This simple, miraculous, deep-seated impulse rising from a wish to move emotions that cannot be expressed through words alone, creates the perfect physical/vocal environment to safely sing.
Your mind, body and breath are now “supporting” your impulse to express through song.
Your mind is your primary vocal instrument - not your vocal folds.
You hear it before you sing it.
Your brain is already singing before you phonate. Your internal song has already created your internal “support system”.
Your song lives and thrives, as it is cradled safe in the arms of your breath, mind, and body, all working together in harmony: You sing to support.
😱 Spoiler alert: 😱
Unless we have emoto-physiological reasons (physical tension, unbalanced fascia, unhealthy breathing patterns, doubt, fear) that throw a spanner into the works.
This is why voice professionals like myself and others come in handy. Especially those folks who work with the whole mind-body-breath-voice connection as a wholistic unit.
Your everything is your vocal mechanism.
#2: Open your Throat!
#3: Tighten your tummy like a #2!
