Breathing in is what you’re going to be doing every time you’re about to sing. Think about that. Then when you’re made aware of your own breathing you stop, just to see what it feels like not to.
Learning how to breathe through fast songs has a lot to do with developing a sense of where you ought to breathe. Learning this skill is essential for every singer and is very possible to achieve with the correct instruction.
Singing fast is not just for rappers anymore. There are songs that have fast lyrical phrasing these days and learning how to breathe through them is going to allow you to tackle both. Let’s read how.
Learn Where Singers Take Breath – The Secret
Every song has the singer’s breathing pattern embedded in it.
We’re so used to hearing them breathe that we don’t even notice it. It’s like when someone doesn’t blink for quite a while, you just know that something is weirdly off and you can’t tell what it is.
The same is with listening to songs. You will be surprised but it does happen. A lot of singers’ breathing is audible when they’re just about to sing and you can hear it quite clearly.
However, this is also the reason why most songs sound like they’re better in the studio than on stage because of how phrases work. In a studio, you have the luxury of the perfect take, while on stage you may not.
If you’re planning on stepping forward in front of a crowd I suggest that you start practicing whatever song you plan to perform well in advance along with where to breathe, though, as time passes it becomes more and more natural and intuitive.
Listen to Songs
So start listening as carefully as possible. Even slowing the audio down in a DAW is not cheating when you’re just trying to learn something. Whatever gets you over the fence.
Of course when you listen to these songs and figure out where singers are taking breaths the next idea is to copy them perfectly. There is nothing wrong with copying them as perfectly as possible. Just like it’s not wrong to learn covers.
It’s educational content really.
Practice
The main idea of telling you this is so that you can start practicing it and start implementing it in your own songs. Or if not on your own songs then in a way that will allow you to cover songs that are fast for you.
Consistent practice is the way to go. You’d be surprised that even 30 minutes of practice every day is going to improve your singing tremendously in the long term. If you have more than 30 that’s even better.
I have written an article on why 30 minutes of practice are great and if you want to know how to improve your voice overall, you can skip to the end of the article.
Just remember this with practice, doing a four-hour session on weekends doesn’t make you better. It’ll help but very little. Doing it consistently will. So if you can’t sing fast songs yet, doing it every day for 30 minutes will help you more than doing something for long on the weekends.
Consistency. Always.
Instinct
You are not aware of your breathing when you are speaking. It vanishes, and most of our days go like that. Just like that when you’ve done singing long enough you will develop the instinct for it and it will allow you to start doing it on an ‘automatic’ level.
The idea is that you will have to practice enough to get to that level. Mastery of it can only come through doing it repeatedly. This ties to what I was saying before about practice.
Think about it, the more time you spend doing this the better you’ll be.
Cover Fast Songs
Nothing beats this really. You really have to start to put your mental efforts and preparations into action and remember, you can only get better and never worse from this.
So, pick up something that you think you can overcome but not something that will take you months either. You need just enough resistance to grow but not so much that you can’t do it.
Getting better and practicing requires you to break things down one by one and never all at once. One bites a day and within a month and eventually a year the fact that you even had this question if you could sing a fast song would be a distant memory.
I have written another article on the need to practice daily and how even doing 30 minutes a day is a really good target to hit. Of course, if you’re planning to become better than a hobbyist then you ought to
Build up
And that’s it. You keep building up slowly and steadily. Eventually, you will have what you need. Not just the ability to sing fast songs but being able to discern where to breathe and how to even write your own songs that may be fast.
This could even turn you to learning the rap genre. There is a lot of singing outside of that genre as well but you get the idea.
But above all…
You Can Become a Great Singer!
I am not going to come here and start bashing teachers who teach and give private singing lessons but it is also my duty to point to other alternatives that are going to allow you to further your singing for a fraction of the cost. Yup, a fraction.
Welcome to online courses.
I have curated a list of courses and their prices and outlined what they’re all about right here. So, do as you please but try to get at least one of these.