Description:
In this introduction to better breathing for singers, Abram explains the importance of breath control and how it impacts your vocal performance. You’ll learn how to use breath efficiently to support longer phrases and improve pitch and tone.
This video includes a short daily warmup routine that you can incorporate into your practice:
This video includes a short daily warmup routine that you can incorporate into your practice:
- Fogging the Mirror – A simple breath control exercise where you exhale as if fogging a mirror to warm up your breath.
- Long hissing exhale – Exhale on a hiss to control and sustain your breath over a longer period.
- Ha to Hiss exhale – Transition from a quick "Ha" to a long hissing sound, helping with controlled release of breath.
- Vocal Drone Sustain – Sustain a single pitch to develop breath consistency and support over long phrases.
Audio:
Lessons:
- 1: Welcome
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2:
Breath Control 101
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3:
Singing Longer Phrases
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4:
Songwork
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5:
Conclusion
Instructor: Abram Poliakoff
Abram Poliakoff is a singer, guitarist, pianist, teacher, conductor, and composer. He received a Bachelors of Music in Vocal Arts from USC’s Thornton School of Music and has been teaching music for 8 years. He is currently both the Associate Artistic Director and a tenor in the L.A. Choral Lab, which recently released its first studio album Sonic Visions in the fall of 2019. Abram teaches and performs a wide range of genres including Classical, Jazz, Folk and Popular music in the Los Angeles area. He has also sung with the San Francisco Opera and Pocket Opera in the Bay Area. His teaching mission is to help his students utilize vocal technique to find their authentic and healthy voice while maximizing genre flexibility and a naturalness of expression.