Oh, I have no problem belly breathing...but I feel like I almost took that too far and was like,
only belly breathing and not using the full upper part of my lungs? I don't know if that makes any sense. It's not so much that I shrug my shoulders up as that I seem to tense them (and probably my neck too). I dunno. I am working on making myself do these super boring long note exercises and timing myself and stuff so I can measure if there's any improvement, and I am getting really pissed off that I'm not getting instantly better.
I wonder if learning to play the flute would help my singing/breathing problems. For a while I kept having dreams that I was playing the flute and I was like "WHAT DOES IT MEEEEAN?" So maybe it's like, a sign or something.
Or I could take up didgeridoo, because I had the same problem with that. I don't have problems with any other instrument as far as I can tell, so I think it might be a resistance thing. So maybe I
am expelling all my air too quickly (or am not focusing it properly?). But if that's the case, I haven't quite worked out how to
stop doing that. And the thing is, I hardly ever play oboe anymore. BUT I guess it's hard to undo 15 years of habit?