Hanna, our principal, and Bojana, our senior coach, discuss the journey of a beginner student - what defines a beginner student and how they identify one, and how to build up one's voice from there.

Everyone can sing, but what defines a beginner is about the technical understanding one has about their vocals, and their ability to create a stable, whole tone when they sing. The most common issue in beginners is their inability to sustain a note comfortably, causing it to waver and wane. Also, it is about the consistency of the tone as one goes through their range - some singers can sing high notes, but are unable to maintain their tone when they hit the lower notes.

In conclusion, it all boils down to the breathing of the person. Diaphragmatic, or also known as belly breathing, is the most fundamental aspect of developing one's voice. And in this episode, Hanna and Bojana spend some time describing and sharing some essential warm-up and breathing techniques that would help beginner students.

Hanna spends some time explaining and describing how the diaphragmatic breathing works and how one can tell they are achieving it. Furthermore, the two talk about how breathing is a part of one's everyday consciousness of one's breathing outside of singing. It is all about consistently developing one's strength and awareness of how we breathe.

Bojana also goes on to share some of the advanced warm-up techniques. These techniques, when tried at home, are useful to assess whether one has already reached a more advanced level of singing in terms of breathing techniques.

For the transcription of this podcast, please go to https://thevocalstudio.sg/tvs-blog/fyiv-episode-2