How to maintain your posture and breathing is an important basic to learn about before even approaching a vocal warm up! In order to prepare your voice, you must prepare your body first and that includes having the perfect posture, and knowing the right way to breathe. I know it sounds silly, but once you watch my tutorial and pick up the shown techniques, you’ll realize a significant difference in the quality of your voice. In this video, you’ll be approaching two types of healthy techniques in singing: Posture and Breathing. When your body is your instrument, you can never go wrong with being a perfectionist when it comes to keeping it in tip-top shape!
So when it comes to executing the perfect posture, you wanna make sure you have the best possible alignment — how straight you are from your head to your feet — so that you can have the right amount of balance and structure for quality control and sound. I got through this step by step by addressing the feet, knees, hips, chest/shoulders, and head. Once you’ve nailed that part down, breathing should come extremely easily. And for all my singers who feel themselves running out of breath too quickly, following how I breath in the video, and using the helpful diagram as guides, nailing this technique should be a piece of cake, and running out of breath and control will no longer be an issue!
Christine T. Wolf (2016) explains how Web 2.0 platforms, like YouTube, shows content “often displayed by way of “recommended” or “trending” content, a hallmark of Web 2.0 platforms today is their ability to shape notions of “relevance” by algorithmic sorting and customization” (Wolf 2016). I believe that my video will be seen through the “recommended” algorithm of YouTube. There is a ton of vocal technique videos on YouTube, and I think that people that like to visualize how to do things will come across my video and learn from it. As a result of this, my audience will continue to present themselves in a way they want through singing as Wolf (2016) also states in their article.
“At the same time Web 2.0 platforms are creating the markets they then exploit, they are also shaping who users are and might become by dramatically tailoring the information they are exposed to” (Wolf 2016).
Wolf, C. T. (2016). DIY videos on YouTube: Identity and possibility in the age of algorithms. First Monday, 21(6). doi:10.5210/fm.v21i6.6787
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