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30 Jun 2010, 3:52 pm

So what's more annoying, hearing a singer breathe, or hearing a singer go flat? Lung capacity is finite, and you must have enough air in your lungs for the diaphragm to provide sufficient support. The moment the pressure in your larynx falls, you begin to go flat.

Phrasing is one of the most important skills in oral performance (whether it be acting, recitation or singing). Singers will often work with musical directors or teachers for many hours working out the right points in the music whether they can take a breath.

Singing is not the mechanical reproduction of sound; it is an art form, and two singers will have different approaches to the same piece of music. Their different interpretations are just as important as the composers' and the lyricists' work in the creation of the finished product.

If you don't want to hear breathing, then listen to string or percussion music. If you want to listen to songs, then listen to the whole work, breaths and all!


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30 Jun 2010, 6:00 pm

I like Bon Scott's intake at the start of AC/DC's Night Prowler.



In a way, I guess that's what killed him. :wink:



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30 Jun 2010, 6:13 pm

This is definitely one of my pet peeves in songs. I can't stand it.



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30 Jun 2010, 6:15 pm

visagrunt wrote:
So what's more annoying, hearing a singer breathe, or hearing a singer go flat? Lung capacity is finite, and you must have enough air in your lungs for the diaphragm to provide sufficient support. The moment the pressure in your larynx falls, you begin to go flat.

Phrasing is one of the most important skills in oral performance (whether it be acting, recitation or singing). Singers will often work with musical directors or teachers for many hours working out the right points in the music whether they can take a breath.

Singing is not the mechanical reproduction of sound; it is an art form, and two singers will have different approaches to the same piece of music. Their different interpretations are just as important as the composers' and the lyricists' work in the creation of the finished product.

If you don't want to hear breathing, then listen to string or percussion music. If you want to listen to songs, then listen to the whole work, breaths and all!


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01 Jul 2010, 6:33 am

in songs or anywhere. i went to the theatre and and could hear the man next to me breathing all the way through the play. i was really distressed and physically and mentally tired out. torture!



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01 Jul 2010, 7:03 am

visagrunt wrote:
So what's more annoying, hearing a singer breathe, or hearing a singer go flat? Lung capacity is finite, and you must have enough air in your lungs for the diaphragm to provide sufficient support. The moment the pressure in your larynx falls, you begin to go flat.

Phrasing is one of the most important skills in oral performance (whether it be acting, recitation or singing). Singers will often work with musical directors or teachers for many hours working out the right points in the music whether they can take a breath.

Singing is not the mechanical reproduction of sound; it is an art form, and two singers will have different approaches to the same piece of music. Their different interpretations are just as important as the composers' and the lyricists' work in the creation of the finished product.

If you don't want to hear breathing, then listen to string or percussion music. If you want to listen to songs, then listen to the whole work, breaths and all!


Agreed... but on the other hand, if the musician is trained decently, they should be trained not to take huge, loud, obvious breaths that distract one from the music. It's part of good phrasing.


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01 Jul 2010, 11:21 am

While I don't find the breathing between words in songs themselves annoying, I find just breathing without singing to be annoying. A good example by the Moody Blues.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EwjQcqCAKU[/youtube]

I do seem to notice this and other mouth noises, and not just in singing, but in interviews and speeches.



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01 Jul 2010, 2:27 pm

The singer from Muse does this pretty consistently, on louder songs it sounds like he's gasping for breath after every line.



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01 Jul 2010, 2:32 pm

Yes, that typically annoys me.


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01 Jul 2010, 3:09 pm

passionatebach wrote:
While I don't find the breathing between words in songs themselves annoying, I find just breathing without singing to be annoying. A good example by the Moody Blues.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EwjQcqCAKU[/youtube]

I do seem to notice this and other mouth noises, and not just in singing, but in interviews and speeches.


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I never noticed this before. I thought it was part of their synthesizer equipment. :?

Years ago, I remember guys telling me that girls liked it when guys breathed in their ears. :eew:

Heavy breathers on the phone. :thumbdown: :evil:


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01 Jul 2010, 9:49 pm

What's really annoying is a singer like Eleanor Jackson with a recording contract who sounds like she has only been singing a few weeks at the most.



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02 Jul 2010, 10:25 am

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Trying to figure this one out. I do not regularly listen to rap but I was not aware they do not audibly breathe. I just cannot figure out how they talk on like that for over five minutes. Large lung capacity may be a reason. :?

It's quite easy, with a music computer, to create a sound recording of yourself singing for as long as you want, without a break to inhale. You just have to edit out the gaps.

Personally I don't mind if the singer breathes. It's quite natural and nothing to feel ashamed of. I hear a lot of live, unplugged music where there's no microphone to move away from. I used to take a lot of care to hide my breathing but these days I don't worry about it. I scored a very high lung capacity at college when we measured it, but some songs have very long lines in them, and I'm not spending the rest of my life ironing out some minor detail. In fact I quite like to hear it on recordings because it reinforces the idea that the singer is a real person and not some kind of computer-simulated illusion. But if they're making the breathing noises very loudly, I might not like that.