Voice Lessons & Tips on Singing : How to Sing with Your Diaphragm

Learn tips on how to sing with your diaphragm instead of your throat with singing and vocal training tips in this free online vocal coaching video clip.

Expert: Larissa Lam
Bio: Larissa Lam has almost 20 years of professional singing experience and has studied under top vocal coaches in LA. She has coached various singers for record labels and musical productions.
Filmmaker: Nili Nathan

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[ancafeninja]

this isn't really helping ^^; it seems like she made the diaphragm example just better sounding on purpose. and made the throat one sound annoying.

[voicewisdom]

Your 'diaphragm singing' example still has a significant amount of breath management using the vocal cords. This is clearly evident when you sing 'up above the world', with a glottal stop on 'up'. That is an example of stopping the air flow by pressing your vocal cords together, ie controlling air flow in the throat and not with the diaphragm. Also, one cannot feel the diaphragm moving, so suggesting that singers 'feel the movement' doesn't make any sense.

[LazyKoreanBum]

To use diaphragm; pretend you're yawning, you see how your stomach expands and such? You feel that expand in the stomach? Well it should expand lol but yeah. It's like that, eventually you'll get used to it :] then you can do it more naturally, just something i had to learn for oboe teehee

[TheDancingcat22]

How about you tell us how to prevent us from using it! I can't stop using my throat because I don't know how!

[Xianuh16]

@freakmaxaii116 let's do it together..haha!

[polly10022]

Best lesson ever :)

[musickid203]

You didnt help us. You told us to sing with our diaphragm but didnt tell us how.

[MauriceChase]

@OmgitsAntonio I know, I do that all the time when I'm singing, because basically flexing your abs indicates yourself. Letting yu know that your singing from your stomach

[MauriceChase]

Thanks I kinda understand

[Crazygirlloveyou1]

I did it so easy

[freakmaxaii116]

Fuck it! its too hard!! D"""X I'm gonna go commit suicide.

[pinkhairedneko]

@ancafeninja I agree. It sounds like she purposefully sings with her nose, rather than with her throat haha.