Workout - Bottom of the Breath
Warm up and Review:
- Home Position and breathing
- Review
- Bearing down and pressing
- Bottom of the breath
- Comfortable Empty
- 3% Circle
- Still at the comfortable empty
- Still and drop/release
- Direct the inhale
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End of the Phrase = Bottom of the Breath
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The end of your exhale, the bottom of the breath cycle, is a critical place to unlock tension and access the natural urge to inhale.
Remain mindful at the bottom of the breath. This is the sensation at the end of a long phrase. Instead of gulping for air and pulling the vocal instrument out of alignment, we learn learn to use the sensations at the bottom of the breath to direct us where to draw breath.
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Warm up, Breathing and Review
< 17:06
Review the skills we learned for the top of the breath so we can apply them to the bottom of the breath.
Bottom of the Breath
17:08 - 22:25
To find a comfortable level of empty, find 50% volume, then circle 50% - 30%. You become comfortable as you contain a specific amount of air. Release tension before you breathe.
Stillness at the Bottom of the Breath
22:25 - 29:01
- Find 50% and 30% air volume and make a breathing cycle.
- 30% volume will be our working comfortably empty volume where you can briefly 'still' the motion of the breath.
- Circle 3 to 5% in and out with home position at rest.
- Larynx remains unengaged.
- Bring your air movement to a still point without pressing the larynx.
- Don't gradually inflate. Remain at a constant level of under-pressure and only move 3 to 5% of the air.
- If you feel out of breath, part your lips and breathe freely. Re-oxygenate, and take whatever time you need and return to the exercise.
The Vacuum
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Plan the Inhale
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