Online Singing Lessons: The Vocal Warm-up

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The process of warming up is absolutely key to successful singing. I meet hundreds of singers and when I work with these people it is very easy to identify whether they are warming up before they sing. It makes such a difference to the wellbeing of your voice and your performance.

Not only is it important to warm-up but it is just as important to warm-up with an appropriate programme of exercises in an effective and manageable sequence. The exercises we use in vocal warm-ups help us with three main areas:
1. Preparing the voice for singing
2. Developing the colour and tone of the voice
3. Establishing effective control of the voice
We would then follow this with exercises which focus on a specific technique or a combination of techniques such as breathing, support, vowel sound production and extending your range.

Below you will find three key exercises fully explained to help you get started. These exercises are suitable for the start of your vocal warm-up. However, please remember that these exercises to not make up a complete vocal-warm. If you would like to make sure you are preparing ...
... your voice for singing properly, I recommend you purchase and download a vocal exercise practice track along with an online singing course.

Before starting the exercises, please make sure you are relaxed and that there is no tension around the head and neck area.

Recommended Exercises:
Exercise 1: The first exercise is excellent for the start of every vocal warm-up. It involves humming gently and making sure there is no tension around the head and neck area. We take an interval of a fifth starting from a note which is quite low in the voice and we slide through this interval. By humming, we reduce the exposure of the voice and so the voice feels less vulnerable and we can go about warming-up the voice with freedom and feeling relaxed. I recommend singing from Bb to F.

Exercise 2: We can develop exercise 1 and begin to release our sound. We hum up the fifth in the same way making sure we are sliding and then we can release down the scale to an ‘ah' vowel. As you do this, you are aiming to produce a clear, open sound on the ‘ah' vowel. Drop the jaw, open the mouth, keep the tongue forward and low in the mouth and try to release as much of the sound as possible.

Exercise 3: Now we can think about covering more of our range. One thing to remember when you want to cover a larger part of your range in an exercise is choosing an exercise which starts at the top of your range and works down. Therefore, start somewhere towards to the top of your range and come down the scale to ‘me' and ‘mah' The slow nature of this exercise not only gives you the opportunity to work with a larger section of your range but also to continue releasing as much of your sound as possible.

All these exercises are available on the vocal exercise practice track level 1 (see below).

Today's Advice:
The vocal warm-up is a crucial element of singing success for singers at every level. Therefore, if you're a beginner or intermediate singer and you want to make sure you're warming up using an effective and manageable sequence of exercises, I recommend you download a vocal exercise practice track.

The vocal exercise practice tracks from easysingintutorials.com come in three levels of difficulty. Each track consists of ten exercises. Each exercise is demonstrated followed by a piano accompaniment for you to sing along to. Therefore, each track can be used over and over again for an effective vocal warm-up for your singing.

So, download a vocal exercise practice track today from easysingingtutorials.com and start making serious progress with your singing. Good luck!
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