Catch breaths
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Kim ChandlerCheck the notes for extra tips on how to approach this exercise.
What's in the course
56 lessons (1h 38m) · 1 free
01. Staccato breathing 1
1:52
02. Practice track - Staccato Breathing
3:29
03. Warm-up "sirens"
2:30
04. Practice track - Warm-up Sirens
2:27
05. Vowels
1:11
06. Practice track - Vowels
2:59
07. Articulation
0:48
08. Practice track - Articulation
1:33
09. Major triads
1:10
10. Practice track - Major Triads
0:43
11. Pitch accuracy
1:36
12. Practice track - Pitch Accuracy
3:15
13. Major scale
0:41
14. Practice track - Major Scale
1:23
01. Catch breaths
You are here1:16
02. Practice track - Catch Breaths
3:21
03. Chromatic warm-up
0:39
04. Practice track - Chromatic Warm-up
3:08
05. 'Focus' exercise
1:20
06. Practice track - 'Focus' Exercise
3:36
07. Flexibility exercise
Free lesson1:20
08. Practice track - Flexibility Exercise
3:36
09. Minor triads
0:56
10. Practice track - Minor Triads
0:46
11. Easy licks
1:12
12. Practice track - Easy Licks
1:56
13. Natural Minor scale
0:33
14. Practice track - Natural Minor Scale
1:21
01. Staccato breathing 2
1:51
02. Practice track - Staccato Breathing 2
1:56
03. Warm-up "sirens" 2
0:49
04. Practice track - Warm up Sirens 2
2:50
05. Range stretch
1:25
06. Practice track - Range
2:29
07. Pop R&B lick
0:49
08. Practice track - Pop R&B Riff
2:35
09. Dorian mode
0:47
10. Practice track - Dorian Mode
1:36
11. Minor 9ths
0:27
12. Practice track - Minor 9ths
0:53
13. Flexibility & Range (Minor)
1:15
14. Practice track - Flexibility & Range (Minor)
4:45
01. 13/15 count breathing
1:32
02. Practice track - 13/15 Count
2:41
03. Intervals
0:56
04. Practice track - Intervals
3:30
05. Major pentatonic scale
0:42
06. Practice track - Major Pentatonic Scale
1:20
07. Long notes
1:15
08. Practice track - Long Notes
4:11
09. Flexibility & Range (Major)
0:57
10. Practice track - Flexibility & Range (Major)
2:08
11. Minor pentatonic scale
0:39
12. Practice track - Minor Pentatonic Scale
1:18
13. Minor pentatonic lick
0:42
14. Practice track - Minor Pentatonic Lick
1:56
Lesson transcript
Level Two: Breathing Exercise
Welcome to level two!
Introduction
We're going to start with a breathing exercise again to continue our breathing development journey. This one introduces you to the concept of catch breaths.
Catch breaths are essential for singing songs, where you need to take a quick, deep inhalation followed by a long, controlled exhalation.
Exercise Breakdown
This exercise will be done in two parts:
-
Unvoiced Exercise
- This part uses breathing without the voice.
- It sounds like this:
- Quick, deep inhale.
- Steady, hissing exhale while engaging the lower abdominal muscles.
- Here's how it looks when I do it:
- I take the air in quickly and deeply.
- My stomach muscles come inwards and upwards steadily as I hiss out.
I'll do it for you one more time:
-
Voiced Exercise
- In the voiced version, we eliminate the sipping sound entirely.
- This is important because you do not use this sound when singing a song.
- It sounds like this:
(Demonstration of the voiced breathing exercise)
Continue practicing these techniques to improve your singing breath control!
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Meet your guru
Meet your guru
Kim Chandler MMus BMusEd is one of the world’s leading contemporary vocal coaches. She runs a busy private studio in Marbella, Spain, where she coaches an elite clientele of international stadium band singers, charting artists from every genre, professional singers and other vocal coaches online.
As a performer, Kim has three decades of high-end performing experience in both live performance and studio singing. Aside from her voice being heard on films, albums, cruise ship shows and thousands of jingles worldwide, she has also been a backing vocalist for high-profile artists such as The Bee Gees, Natalie Cole, Michael McDonald, Bjork, Michael Bolton, Leo Sayer, Rick Astley and Susan Boyle, in addition to having performed at some of London’s most iconic locations such as the Royal Albert Hall, Downing Street, Wembley Arena Stadium, the O2 Arena and Buckingham Palace. (kimchandler.com)
Kim was an MD of large corporate recording sessions at London’s Abbey Road Studios for many years and was one of the vocal coaches for audition tours of “The Voice UK”. She is regularly invited to run master classes, workshops; teacher training events and is also a regular presenter at national & international voice conferences, including being a keynote speaker in her home country of Australia.
In the academic world, Kim spent a decade in various leadership positions of the British Voice Association as Head of Communications, past President and Director. She has many years of institutional teaching experience as a Principal/Senior Lecturer at Leeds College of Music; London College of Music respectively and was the Head of Vocals at Vocaltech (now BIMM London).
Her educational work features in many masters; doctoral theses and in compendiums such as “Training Contemporary Commercial Singers” (Compton), “Teaching Singing in the 21st Century” (Springer) and “The Ultimate Guide To Singing” (TC-Helicon).
Kim is the sole creator of the internationally popular “Funky ‘n Fun” vocal exercise series used in many institutions, private studios and by many touring artists that provides the basis of this “Funky Fundamentals for Pop Singers” course (www.funkynfun.com).
