There is one thing that concerns me about this. Yes breathing through your nose
can fill your lungs, but there is one thing that breathing through your mouth
really benefits over singing through your knows, and that is to help with proper
placement in order to create the ultimate resonant sound by lifting the soft
palate and giving you space for creating the best overtones. Breathing through
your nose fills your lungs, but leaves the mouth with nothing, meaning all the
more work that you have to do to get your voice into the best placement. It
also might have a tendency to cause a droopy sound that might cause you to dig
at the sound versus float on top of it to get the best resonance.

This is just my thoughts, if someone more knowledgeable would be willing to
share their $.02 that would be great.

Alex Donaldson
Bass in the Great Northern Union (Hilltop Chapter)

--- In BBSBasses@yahoogroups.com, "george.luken" <georgelj@...> wrote:
>
> Gentlemen: I discovered another secret and you tell me if it works for you.
Do you have problems on tags or just long passages where you don't seem to have
enough oxygen to make it through the phrase?
> Close your mouth and pull the air in
> through your nose only, the warm air warmed by your nose that you use
> for singing will let you belt a tag out or make it through a phrase like
nobody's business!
>
> What say you? George Luken
>