Breathing and Breath Marks
When you are singing, it uses up your breath fairly quickly, which means you will often have to take a new breath between some of the notes. Try breathing every two bars at first. In the song below you will see a sign called a breath mark. It looks like this 
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In the beginning it is a good idea to breathe every time you see a breath mark even if you don’t need to. Take a quick, deep breath and then keep singing. member to keep a relaxed, upright posture and sing straight ahead of you as if you were speaking to someone the same height as yourself. Tap your foot in time to the music so you don’t lose the timing when you breathe.
This song contains four bars of quarter notes in * time.
The Quarter Rest
This symbol is called a quarter rest. It means there is one beat of silence. Do not sing any note where you see a rest. We place small counting numbers under rests.
A rest is always a good place to take a breath. When you see a rest, hold the note you are singing right up to the beat where the rest occurs, and then take a relaxed breath on that beat. Remember to keep tapping your foot or clapping where you see a rest, even though you are not singing.
