Surprise vs. Yawning Breathing: The Truth Every Singer Needs to Know

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In this video, I talk about two key breathing approaches in singing: the yawning approach and the surprise approach. While yawning is useful to create cavity space, I explain why I prefer the surprise method. Surprise breathing keeps your body engaged, alert, and ready for action, without stiffness. It gives you the same cavity space that yawning does but avoids the passive nature of the yawn, which is key when you need active control over your voice.

It’s important to clarify: yawning is great for creating space, but it has nothing to do with sound emission or singing style, as some vocal coaches have misleadingly portrayed. In the vocal schools I come from, yawning is strictly for creating space, nothing more. Can you imagine Mario del Monaco, Franco Corelli, or even Luciano Pavarotti using yawning as a method of vocal emission? Absolutely not. It’s all about creating the right cavity, not about how the sound is produced.

This video is to clear up any confusion surrounding these techniques. Don’t embrace confusion—fight it. We need clarity in our vocal approach, not more misleading ideas.

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