Sentences with phrase «elevated sternum»

Singers must cultivate exceptional strength and coordination in the rhomboids, middle and lower trapezius, and other muscles involved in scapular retraction, as well as the external intercostals, in order to maintain an elevated sternum and an expanded rib cage while singing / exhaling.

Many beginners make the mistake of only lowering the chin; in fact your chin should be met half - way by the elevated sternum.

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In normal breathing, the rib cage expands and the sternum elevates during inhalation; the ribs and sternum descend and settle during exhalation.

In breathing for classical singing, the ribs maintain an expanded position and the sternum remains elevated while singing / exhaling though sustaining an isometric contraction in the external intercostals, rhomboids, and the other muscles of costal inspiration.