5 Great Singing Warm Ups
Do you see your voice getting overly tired at the end of a rehearsal
? Possibly the problem is that you didn't spend some time to do a good warm up beforehand. Just as athletes need to warm up their muscles before a contest or a game, singers need to warm up their voices before a rehearsal or performance.
A good warm up workout can have many advantages. It helps get your body and mind prepared for singing, and can avoid vocal strain and injury. It doesn't have to be tedious.
Warm up #1: Relax. Start with the "rag doll" exercise. Stand with your feet about hip-width apart. Bend over forward from the hips and allow your arms, head, and upper body to hang freely. Shake your arms and head a bit, then let them dangle again. Next, stand erect and do a few neck rolls from one side, forward, to the antipodes, forward, and back. If you're practicing with a group, give yourselves brief back rubs.
Warm up #2: Stretch. Hold your arms straight out in front of your body and clasp your two hands together. Keeping your hands clasped, turn your palms apparent and raise your arms overhead. Now little by little lean to one side, come back upright, then lean to the other side.
Warm up #3: Breathe. Take in a deep breath with good scope of your midsection. Now exhale slowly with a hissing sound, and try to keep the expansion even as you breathe out. Do that many times.
Warm up #4: Produce Good Tone. Do a few yawn-slides or vocal sirens. For the yawn-slide, breathe in as if to yawn, then exhale on the syllable "hoo" or "hee" starting at the top of your scale and sliding rapidly to the bottom. For the siren, start at the bottom of your range and slide to the top, then back down, on a hum.
Warm up #5: Vocalize. There are most different exercises to use for vocalizing. Here are several of the best.
1.Up & down arpeggios. This is a simple broken chord up and down: do mi so do so mi do. Move upward by half-steps with each succeeding repeat. Use the buzz or your favorite vowel sound or syllable.
2.Upward arpeggio & downward octave with turn. This is a slightly more complex variation on the previous exercise. You sing the upward arpeggio (do mi so do), then do a turn (ti do re), then the 8-tone descending octave scale from do to do. Use vowel sounds; do a few on "ee", a few on "oo", a few on "ah". Start each new arpeggio a half-step higher than the last. The pattern is below.
3.Ascending triplet scale. This exercise is complicated to explain, but easy if you read the notes further. Use the solfege syllables (do, re, mi, etc.). Sing an eighth-note triplet upward beginning on each syllable; when you get to the top of the scale, reverse and sing each triplet downward. Sing the exercise as quickly as you can. In the key of C major you would sing C-D-E on do, D-E-F on re, E-F-G on mi, F-G-A on fa, G-A-B on so, A-B-C on la, B-C-D on ti, then C on do. For the downward part of the scale, sing C-B-A on do, B-A-G on ti, A-G-F on la, G-F-E on so, F-E-D on fa, E-D-C on mi, D-C-B on re, and, once again, C on do.
This warm up habit takes longer to describe than it does to really do. You should be able to do it in about ten minutes. You'll find it's worth the time--you will sing better, more easily, and with less vocal tiredness.
by: Jack Flagg...
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