Name: How to Breathe Better for Singing
Uploaded: 2021-11-14T06:48:16.000Z
Duration: 9 min 27 s
Description: Breath is the engine of your singing voice, and today we will learn how to take a better and deeper breath for your optimal singing. We will learn to tap into our intuition and kinesthetic sense and get in touch with our ribs, lower abdomen and our lower back, which constitutes what people call intercostal breathing.

Breath is the engine of your singing voice, and today we will learn how to take a better and deeper breath for your optimal singing. We will learn to tap into our intuition and kinesthetic sense and get in touch with our ribs, lower abdomen and our lower back, which constitutes what people call intercostal breathing.

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Let me help your soul flow with music! As a classically-trained singer, a piano player, a ukulele player and a native Chinese speaker, who also used to work as an engineer in the IT industry and did psychology research, my own life has been blessed with colorful and diverse experiences, and as a result, I embrace people with all kinds of ideas from different walks of life as well! So, hi, dear you, welcome!

I value open, authentic and compassionate communication, and deem it as one of the most important part in teaching. I like to have fun and be playful during teaching, because I would love to see my students have their interest in a new skill kindled, not burned out by ineffective, pushy plans or unrealistic expectations. Most important of all, my biggest wish is to serve you professionally as a teacher with love and joy.

Let us meet your goals together!

Note: for lesson rescheduling or cancellation, please give at least 24 hrs of notice in advance, as stated in the official Takelessons policy.

How to Breathe Better for Singing

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My past teaching experience was mostly designing singing exercises for students in 1-1 singing sessions, each session one hour long, working with my voice pedagogy coach Justin Stoney at the same time. I focused a lot on making sure the exercises are working in the correct way and is in line with what that the singer wants, and at the same time giving them lots of encouragements, and pointing out where are the possibilities waiting to be discovered in their voice.

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Singing is a SKILL that can be learned. Come learn with me!

Contrary to the popular belief that singing is an innate talent whether you are born with or you are not, singing is a skill that could be learned just like driving. The mechanism of voice production could be separated into chunks and trained accordingly.

I am classically trained vocally, with an intensive vocal pedagogy training certificate that requires more than twenty hours of vocal teaching analysis/observation and more than thirty hours of voice teaching in-depth training at New York Vocal Coaching with its founder Justin Stoney. Yes, I am a voice technician that knows how the voice works and ready to help you hone your own voice!

With me you can learn about:
* Singing in tune with correct pitch
* Singing in chest, chest dominant mix, head dominant mix, and head voice
* Singing without voice breaks between your different modes of vocal mechanisms
* Singing with powerful breath support
* Singing with a full, resonant and free voice
* Singing with an increased range
* Singing with an appropriate level of vocal compression
* Singing with a stable larynx at a favorable position for your style
* Singing with less tension in the tongue, jaw and neck
* Experimenting freely and discover what YOUR voice could do
* Singing with EXPRESSION and pull the heart strings of your listeners
* Recording your singing and editing it
* Singing in multiple languages (English, Chinese, Japanese, Italian)
* Finding the repertoire that suits YOUR voice

With all that said, I truly think all voices are beautiful, and our only job is to discover how to work with them and produce fun and beautiful vocal products. I will be able to give you CUSTOMIZED vocal exercises along the way to help you grow your voice. I will not mindlessly give you exercises that might be not useful or even detrimental to you. I know how voice works and I know every voice exercise should have purposes, and what one person needs, the other person probably does not need at all. So I will keep you safe on the way by tuning in to YOUR voice and YOUR needs.

If you are interested in the voice production and why I give you certain voice exercises, I am more than happy to explain all of them to you so that you could carry around your vocal toolbox with you anywhere knowing what you are doing for your voice.

There are so many things we could do with your voice because I know your voice could shine brighter than ever, more so than you could ever imagine!

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If you are interested in more than excellent singing skills and are interested in the spiritual part of it, feel free to read the following thoughts of mine...

What singing is - 
Singing is healing.
Singing is a prayer.
Singing is the soul’s language.
When we turn off our judgmental storm inside our head and be one with our gut feeling and our hearts, the notes flow out effortlessly.

In a sense, singing is meditating. And a singing lesson is a zen session. Struggling, suffering, shouting, straining, would only cause pain in the vocal folds and produce sounds not so friendly to the ears. We learn how to trust out instinct and intuition, relax ourselves in different shades of emotions, hold onto our true selves no matter what note or words we are singing. 

So in a way, singing is a journey to finding your personal truth, with hours and hours of zen time to find your center and express the life inside you. 

What singing is not-
Singing is NOT a competition. 
Singing is NOT merely hitting the right notes at the right time like playing a computer game or handling some machinery.
We cannot directly control the muscles involved in singing like we control the hands playing the piano.
We have to surrender to a certain extent. To God, to the world, whatever your world view integrates it. It has a gesture of surrendering and being in the flow.

The best things is, eventually your singing spills over to every area of your life. When the pain of the life crushes you down and you feel trapped in a misty maze, singing is the light that shows you the way and tells you that you are okay. The more you find the truth inside you with singing, the more you shine; the more passion you feel inside yourself; the more you could feel the life force, carrying you through the ups and downs of this world.

So embark on this journey of singing with me. I am here as your guidance, your traveling mate, your fellow soul in the river of time and space.
Let us quiet our minds and drop into our hearts.
Let us celebrate the present of the present.
Let us melt down the walls inside our hearts and experience the strength that only love can bring.
I am so happy to be here for you and with you.
I see you, a shiny soul. I see you. Come, my friend. Now is the perfect time.
I am here waiting… 

Blessings,
Fanjin




Note: for lesson rescheduling or cancellation, please give at least 24 hrs of notice in advance, as stated in the official Takelessons policy.

Fanjin has a warm presence and makes singing the most approachable it has ever been for me. I appreciate her healing guidance as a fellow ADHD Asian creative. In only two transformative lessons, she has significantly increased my singing confidence which took at least 5+ lessons with other singing teachers.She is like yoga for your vocal muscles. I feel my jaw more because of her and hold less stress there.  I highly recommend her.

Fanjin is amazing and super talented at what she does! Her positive and uplifting energy makes you comfortable and grow even more as a singer. I have learned more about my own voice with her even in just one class. You can tell she really analyzes and cares for your voice as an individual. She's super amazing!

Fanjin is amazing and so talented at what she does! Her positive and uplifting personality makes you feel comfortable and grow even more as a singer. She gives great tips and what you need to work on. You can tell she really analyzes and cares for your voice as an individual. She's truly amazing!

Fanjin is so patient, positive, and uplifting. She really wants your inner self to shine uniquely. She is helping me to just let go and explore.

I believe Fanjin only Video was on Vocal Breathing. I was very impressed with her knowledge. I wish she did more Videos or Live Classes to help me decide if indeed her style is what I'm looking for. Even though her breathing video was very good, I'm trying to decide who I want for one on one, and I think the more exposure I have with Live Classes or Videos of that teacher on a variety of subjects, the better I can decide.

Jin is absolutely amazing. It's been over a year since I've started this singing journey with her and I couldn't have ever imagined how far I would come, yet there's still so much to learn. She always finds new ways to teach according to your strengths and I'm beyond glad that I chose her to be my instructor.

This being my last lesson with Jin for the time being, I cannot begin to describe how at home she makes you feel when working with her. My deepest appreciations go out to her passion and nerdiness for the journey that is singing. She will forever have a place in my heart and voice :)

Fanjin is incredibly warm and supportive in her guidance! She is very aware of what is holding you back and exactly how to adjust for improvement. I have head several voice coaches in the past and in working with Fanjin in only a few weeks, my confidence and sound have improved tremendously!

Fanjin is the best! She is very understanding and really meets you where you are. She knows her stuff and challenges me when I want to be challenged. She has also helped me with my social anxiety and encourages me. I've learned a lot in 3 lessons and I'm excited to learn more :)

Fanjin is very perceptive in noticing what needs to change in you and your practice to make the experience more relaxed and enjoyable!

Insightful to see where you need help to progress

My daughter was so please with her first lesson and said fanjin was super nice.

Amazing first lesson!  I've learned so much today!  I am excited to continue learning!

She’s very nice and a great teacher so far

People like to sing higher in mix and some struggle with it. One thing worth trying is training your head voice. A good head voice is the foundation to higher notes, no matter the style. So train your head voice with humming and wake up the resonators in the head! You are welcome to contact me and send me messages if you want to know more about training your head voice or if you have any questions!

Want to sing higher? Train your head voice!

Our mind is quite powerful. And a solid memory of pitches is a great foundation for singing.
Often times singing off pitch are caused by two things: 1) remembering the pitch wrong 2) not being able to produce the pitch one has imagined in mind's ear. With this video, please feel free to play it as some background music to program your mind to remember solfege more precisely, solving scenario 1) as stated before. If you suspect your problem is 2), then feel free to hum/lip trill along this track to help coordinate your body and hit the scale perfectly on pitch.
Practice <3 Because it really works!

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