When to do vocal warm ups
10 minute Vocal Warm Up - Do this before you sing!
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hello my love's this is Madeleine Harvey
this is Madeleine Harvey thanks so much
for hanging out with me today what I
thought would be wonderful per your
request is to put together a very basic
very gentle very easy quick warmup let's
say if you don't have a lot of time to
invest in a warm-up like what are some
really good essential things you must do
to get your voice ready to be used so if
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you here more often so a couple of
things a couple of really wonderful
things that you want to make sure you
activate right before you sing is that
you activate breath and tone right so
those two things are what we're going to
be really focusing on today now you can
augment and modify a warm-up based off
of a particular style that you're
singing but this is all about keeping it
nice and easy today and again something
that you can quickly do if you don't
have a lot of time so how do you
activate breath well we want to make
sure that we activate the diaphragm in
an almost athletic way this involves
feeling in a little deeper and giving it
the primary responsibility for the sound
we want to encourage it to start
behaving right in a more committed more
engine like way so a really great way to
get it active is to create an S sound
for eight counts then hold the breath or
suspend it I prefer and then S for
another eight counts this will encourage
your diaphragm to stabilize to really
steady itself which will also in turn
give you a more consistent tone so
here's what we're gonna do we're gonna
ask for our eight counts we're gonna
suspend the breath meaning don't breathe
in don't breathe out and then we're
gonna s for another eight
counts you ready here we go take a
breath in
good good good good so you can feel that
as we lift that diaphragm we don't want
to give all of our breath away but we
lift it nice and steady and then we
suspend the diaphragm in a lifted
position what this is gonna do is it's
going to start communicating to your
brain when you saying that if you start
to feel that you don't have enough gas
in the tank to not pinch off at your
throat but continue to go to the
diaphragm go to the center of the body
for what you need let's try this again
excellent so your abs should be really
feeling it really encouraging that
diaphragm to lift from deep from the
inside now you don't have to force your
diaphragm to do anything it's just a
natural consequence of that S consonant
so to encourage a little bit of a
quicker response we're gonna change our
consonant to F so notice how the
diaphragm lifts a little quicker when we
say right good so we're just now we're
just gonna regular F pulse for just
eight now we're not going to suspend it
this time we're just gonna F pulse for
eight here we gonna breathe in good very
good now F pulse for eight hold for
eight let's see if we can manage that
good good now now your diaphragm is
awake it's understanding what's required
of it now we're gonna add tone to this
and we're gonna do it in a way that is
nice and gentle and can balance pressure
so there's not a better thing that
balances pressure in the vocal world
than a simple drill that you can do
tongue trill well you can do lip trill I
prefer the lip trill but I'll let you
decide what's right for you so we're
gonna pulse on a single pitch five times
now you want to make sure that movement
is coming from the center of your body
so we'll go okay feeling that gentle
almost like we're babies bouncing around
in our little bouncers so here we go now
we're gonna start middle C guys if you
want to start an octave below that's
peachy keen fine with me here we go
ready
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are you hearing that speed the diaphragm
is now behaving in a way that's more
agile quicker giving you a lot more
flexibility and adaptability and
flexibility when you say
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well again really feeling that almost
athletic approach to the center of your
body you want to be able to communicate
that it's the center of the body where
all that power comes from but now that
we've activated a diaphragm and we've
post giving it a little bit more speed
now let's get some tone in this mother
so what I want to do today I figured
what would be most value for you guys is
to sink the sink mechanism with the
speak mechanism really feeling at least
in your warm-ups that they they sort of
feed off of each other they take their
cues from each other so we're just going
to chew a nice somewhat narrow somewhat
closed tone to really encourage air
pressure now Tom consistency is kind of
just the art of balancing air pressure
between the nose and the mouth
so this chewing is a wonderful way to
feel the influence of both the nose and
the mouth
that way we're never uh we're not
pushing from our throats and we're not
oh we're not flipping if we don't intend
to flip we know how to balance that bear
pressure
so we're gonna say yum yum yum why um
but we're gonna be very quick to close
that tone like yeah mm-hmm
very quick to close it this is just
gonna give your voice something to hold
on to which is that in constant we're
just gonna think of it as like chewing
which also gives the job tongue and
throat something to do that is not
interfering with your voice a really
great way to ease ourselves into this
this absurd but kind of awesome fun
exercise it's to pretend that we have to
communicate with each other and let's
say we're frustrated or annoyed and the
only word that we have in our language
is YUM how might we convey our
frustration or
annoyance if the only word we have is
young we might go yum yum yum yum yum
yum right so this is just again speak
mechanism into sink mechanism really
getting us focused on that that feeling
of balancing that air pressure and
getting it out and away from us
so now let's let's just play with this
together let's just be silly together so
now I'm gonna be annoyed yum yum yum yum
yum yeah right yum yum yum yum yum yum
yum yum yum right now as I'm just
playing with this I'm feeling the
influence of both my nose and my mouth
and one is not working harder than the
other they're both holding equal
importance so now let's put this in an
exercise so ladies if this is too much
free jump in when it feels a little bit
more but I want us to pretend again that
we're just we're being playful we're
conveying something but the only thing
that we have to say is yum yum yum
this will mimic music using rhythm pitch
and dynamics which is music
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there's a lot of fun but once we've
activated the diaphragm
we've pulsed that quick twitch and now
we've balanced our tone your voice is
ready to be used so thank you so much
for hanging out with me today guys if
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see you here more often but thank you
again for hanging out with me today I
hope you've enjoyed this warmup and I
will see you next time bye laughs
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