Stand erect with correct singing posture:
1. Inhale through the nose quietly and easily. With lips rounded, exhale gently through the mouth as if blowing. Keep the breath stream even. Do not let the chest drop during exhalation. Inhale with lips slightly parted. Take only a comfortable amount of breath. Retain or hold breath while thinking the count of five; then exhale it with a prolonged hissing sound while thinking the count of ten.
3 Take a gentle, deep breath through nose and mouth. Gradually expend the breath while whispering distinctly one, two, three, and so forth. Repeat, counting aloud or singing on a pitch lying in a comfortable part of the voice. Count as far as you can with ease.
4. *Stand up straight, chest out, abdomen in, shoulders relaxed. Inhale deeply with mouth open, then quietly begin to say the alphabet. When you reach the end of the alphabet, continue saying it over again without taking any additional breath. Say as many alphabets as you can in one breath (with your chest up all the time) and gradually pull in your diaphragm and upper abdomen, — gradually, remember. When you have pulled it in as far as it will go, continue saying alphabets until your breath is exhausted. Your chest should still be up. Do not permit it to drop but continue the exercise by inhaling again very deeply as in the beginning and start to say alphabets all over again. At first perhaps you can say only one or two alphabets, but if you practice this daily for about five minutes, at the end of a few weeks you will manage to say several more, and you will have strengthened the muscles of your diaphragm and abdomen.
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