You'll a lot of disagreement amongst singers, pedagogues and scientific types throughout history about breathing techniques and the use of tummy muscles in singing. In this post I'm going to look at the first phase of things - the in-breath. How you get your breath has a pretty important knock-on effect on the sound that will come back out shortly afterwards. At Vocalese, I frequently bang on about using "zippy" muscles, and "nice deep breath" - well, for many of you, these t