caio,
i deal very little with breathing. i say almost nothing about support.
the way i teach is to construct someone's singing out of things they can
already do with their voices, whatever it may be (mostly the way they talk),
no matter how far off the wall it may, at first, appear. if someone ends up
singing well while breathing like crap, i let them. my teaching is really
re-managing what someone already does rather than starting all over. after
years of frustration, studying this school or that method, this is the
approach that finally worked for me. it's easy and you don't have to
practice if you don't want to. all you have to do is remember what to do.
the exceptions are the five percent who are in deep doo-doo with there voices
to begin with. with them, i have to overhaul them somewhat but, i still
look for a glimmer of hope in something they can do already, even if it's
only close.
what i know about sls is mainly what roger love has branched off from it
to be (is that a real sentence?). i understand their basics of breathing to
be; take a low breath and let the larynx handle the rest. i do try to get
my students to adopt a Qi Gong breath (or, gravity drop breath) and i do try
to keep (especially women for some reason) them from dropping their sternums
while singing.
mike
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