How to Singing Voice Lessons - Warm ups

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1 Minute warm-up: Never sing to warm-up. The most effective vocal warm up you can do is to NOT sing the song you are going to perform but rather employ 2 simple exercises that will warm your cords up and get them ready to perform.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Step 1

Exercise 1 – Vocal yawn or yawn-pitching: Start somewhere comfortably within your head tone and yawn slowly with your mouth closed in a “hum” position on a pitch from top to bottom gently while increasing the volume as you repeat for about 10 – 20 times.
Step 2

End the last few yawns with your mouth slightly open creating a small vowel sound on an Ah or Oh with your lips only slightly opened – NOT wide open. This will engage compression and ready your cords to maintain this compression within your performance.
Step 3

Exercise 2 – Lip rolls on an ascending and descending slide: You want to start at the lowest tone from the bottom of your range and “slide” on a lip roll up to the top of a comfortable tone, increasing the higher tones with every other run until you have reached the highest note within your comfortable range on the last ascending slide.