Singing Exercises for Vocal Warm-Up

Singing Exercises For Warming Up Your Vocal Cords

Vocal warm-up is as important a part of singing exercises to a singer as warm-up exercises are to an athlete before a race or a game. For a singer, the game or the race is the rehearsal or the performance. Comprehension the role of the larynx will help you understand the point of relaxed muscles in singing, in particular, the muscles that maintain the larynx itself.

Benefits Of A Vocal Warm Up

Vocal warm-up exercises get the Air flowing straight through the windpipe to help relax and ready the throat muscles for the more arduous performance of singing. It is probably one of the most productive ways to proactively help avoid vocal fatigue and overuse damage.

It may seem counterproductive to propose more vocal warp-up exercises as a inhibitive quantum to overuse injury but the fact of the matter is that the vocal folds that are part of the voice box are controlled by tiny muscles which, when warmed-up correctly are more flexible and easier to use, becoming in the process much less susceptible to injury.

The First Warm-Up Exercise: The "Rag Doll" Exercise

Before beginning your singing warm-up exercises, do some whole-body stretching and relaxation. From a standing position, lean forward, bending at your hips and allowing your head and arms to hang freely. Shake them a bit, then just let them hang for someone else miniature or so.

Follow that with a stretching rehearsal for restorative posture alignMent. Stand with your feet flat on the floor, about hip-width apart, and your arms at your sides. Bring your arms rapidly upward and across your body in a circular petition until they are over your head. Rising onto the tips of your toes, take in a good, deep breath as you move your arms up.

As you gently exhale, bring your arms back down to your sides and come back down to flat feet. Try to keep your chest up and shoulders back, as they were at the top of the stretch, after bringing your arms down. You are now ready to begin singing.

The Second Warm-Up Exercise: Bubble Lips or Lip roll

Exhale straight through puckered lips to originate a vibration, sounding a bit like a motorboat or a "raspberry".

Do the buzz slide between three tones: the base tone, up a fourth, and back to the base (do-fa-do): in the key of C major, it would be C,F,C. Repeat, piquant up a half step each time (C#, F#, C#, then D,G,D, then Eb, Ab, Eb, etc.). You can also do this on the syllable "ee" or "oo", but the buzz military you to use good breath support.

The Third Warm-Up Exercise: The Fifth-Slide

Start on the fifth tone with the syllable "wee" and slide down to the base (so-do): in C major again, it would be G, C. Repeat on the same tones with "zoo", then move up a half-step and repeat, "wee" and "zoo" on Ab and Db. Continue piquant up by half-steps.

The Fourth Warm-Up Exercise: The Five-Tone Descending Scale

Starting on the fifth tone, descend stepwise to the base: so, fa, mi, re, do. First do the syllable "na", then "nay", "noh", and "noo". Move up a half-step and repeat the scale on each syllable.

The Next Warm-Up Exercise: A Descending 8-Tone Scale On The Syllable "Noo"

A descending 8-tone scale is the preponderant (do, ti, la, so, fa, mi, re, do). Again, move up a half-step with each repeat. Try other vowel sounds as well, such as "nah", "nay", "nee", or "noh", or use "m" instead of "n" as the first consonant. Try to feel your mask, or upper resonance, as you do this.

Follow that with a descending arpeggio: do, so, mi, do, on the syllable "nah". Repeat on "nay", "nee", "noh", and "noo", then move up by half steps and repeat on each syllable again.

The Last Warm-Up Exercise: The Octave Slide

Use the buzz and start on the base note; slide up an octave and back down to the base: do, do, do. Repeat on "oo". Move up a half-step, do the buzz, and then "oo". Continue piquant up by half-steps.

Singing exercises should start with vocal warm-up exercises at all times to allow for the emphasis of that golden singing voice of yours. Find out more about singing exercises by reading the Singing Exercises description as well.

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