Hey guys, welcome back again to Ken Tamplin
Vocal Academy, where the PROOF is in the SINGING! Today we’re going to talk about Diaphragmatic
Support. What is it? … And why is it important? … And what does it mean to you, as a singer? Well, as it turns out, it’s the engine that
drives your car, and without it, you really can’t go very far. So now, there’s a lot of information floating
around on YouTube and the Internet from a lot of different vocal coaches and different
people talking about it, but I’ve yet to see anyone really demonstrate what it is. Now, I’m going to do it for you in a second,
but you have to ask yourself two very important questions. Whether you’re learning from me as a vocal
coach, or anyone else online as a vocal coach… Does the vocal coach themself demonstrate
what they’re teaching? Can they Prove it? Can they really show you? Because if they can’t, if they can’t do
it themselves, they can’t show you how to do it. Do they have students that demonstrate it,
and if they can’t, and they can’t translate it to show a student how to do it, they certainly
can’t show you how to do it. So, if they themselves can’t do it, and
they don’t have students doing it, they certainly can’t show you how to do it. At Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy we believe the
proof is in the singing! I’m gonna show you how to do it. Here’s how. So, with diaphragmatic support, I’m going
to do a couple of scales without it. Here’s what it sounds like:
“Lah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah… Lah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah…” where you’re
straining and you just have no strength in the sound, and it feels like it’s going
to your throat, and you just can’t control anything, and you’re cracking all the time. It’s miserable. If you have diaphragmatic support, “Lah,
ah, ah, AHHHHHHH, ah, ah, ah.” Now, by the way, you don’t always have to
sing heavy. “Lah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.” You can use it in different timbres and textures. It doesn’t have to be only rock, or heavy
stuff. It could be pop, R and B, jazz, soul, whatever
that is… But you have command of this breath that comes
from your diaphragm. How do we get it? Here’s how we get it! Are you ready? Let’s do this together… All right. So, typically, when we take a breath, we take
a breath from our chest like this: (Breathes in and out). We cuff in from our chest, and our chest expands
and contracts. Right? Instead, what we do is we start already with
the chest half to three quarters full of air, and we bring in the abdominal cavity. The diaphragm is directly under here, the
chest cavity, actually it sits like this. See, it looks like an eclipse, like a moon,
and when it contracts, and you breathe in, it goes like this. Right? Like this. So I breathe in… And it creates a vacuum of air in the lung,
and then I go like this, and it releases that vacuum of air. So when I take a breath, my whole abdominal
cavity looks like this: Breathe in… Breathe out… Breathe in… Breathe out. So when I do my scale, I went (breathe in)
“Lah, ah, ah, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, ah, ah, ah And I pull in on that sound that gives me
the strength that I need that’s required. Now, I cover all of this in my singing course:
How To Sing Better Than Anyone Else. It’s not just one or two of these little
things that are required, there’s a lot of things that go into this that’s really
important. But guys, if you like what you’ve heard,
please like my videos, please subscribe, that would be super awesome. And check out my singing course How To Sing
Better Than Anyone Else. It will rock your world. Thank you guys, and until next time... Peace... Out...
