The 10 Best Vocal Exercises for Singers--All Male and Female Keys

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Introduction 0:00
5-Tone Count 2:43
1.5 Octave Lip Trill 4:47
1.5 Octave "NG" 7:41
1.5 Octave "GEE" 9:15
1.5 Octave "NAY" 10:24
Octave Repeat "NAY" 11:53
Octave Repeat "NAE" 13:42
Octave Repeat "BAE" 15:23
Octave Repeat "MUM" 16:36
1.5 Octave "MUM 17:48

There's no getting around it: Vocal exercises are the weirdest part of learning to sing.

But the truth is that vocal exercises are the best way to improve your singing voice no matter whether you're trying to hit higher notes or sing with vibrato.
So today, I wanted to take a moment to discuss the 10 best vocal exercises four singers. I'll also give you lots of exercises that work in both male and female keys that way you can practice along at home.

Let's get into it.

So what is a vocal exercise really? Singing exercises are really just a specific singing sound that you make on all the different notes across your range or in a specific range of your voice.

The whole point of a vocal exercise is to train your voice to do something that it doesn't do naturally very well.

And how does it do that?

By keeping the sound consistent from the bottom to the top part of your voice, your singing voice is actually able to achieve a new skill or coordination that it wasn't able to before.

Why is that so different from singing songs? Well that's because in songs things are changing all the time. The melody, the vowels, the consonants everything is constantly changing in songs which is why they're so hard.

Instead, if you try it some vocal exercises to help you sing those notes instead you would find that it was a lot easier. So if you're having a hard time singing songs well, try these vocal exercises.

The first vocal exercise were going to do today is the five tone count. If you've seen my channel before, you may have noticed that I used the 5-tone count to help students find their vocal tone better.

It's very simple. All you do is count from one to five while you sing a 5-tone scale and back down.

The next vocal exercise I'm going to show you will help you expand your vocal range. It's the octave and a half lip Trill.

This is one of the most popular vocal exercises out there. And it's for good reason.

It's because the lip Trill is one of the best exercises for helping you expand your vocal range safely.

In this exercise you'll basically blow your lips together to let your lips flop as you sing the different notes in the octave and a half scale.

In the next exercise, we're going to get some edge on the higher notes in your voice. One of my favorite exercises for doing that is the octave and a half "ng" like the word rung.

In this case what you're going to do is just making nasal sound like you're saying the word "rung" that you're holding the NG at the end of the word.

Then you'll just apply the same nasal feeling on to the octave in half scale.

In the next vocal exercise I'm going to show you how to hit higher notes. One of my favorite exercises for doing this is the octave and a half "Gee" exercise.

In the singing exercise, you're just going to sing the word "Gee" as in the word "geese" as you sing the octave and a half scale.

In the next vocal exercise we're going to help you hit those higher notes with more power.

One of my favorite exercises for doing this is the octave and a half "Nay".

In this exercise you're going to say the word nay as in neighbor as you sing across the octave and a half scale.

In the next exercise I'm going to show you how to eliminate your vocal break.

In this singing exercise, you're going to sing a bratty "Nay" as in "neighbor" on an octave arpeggio repeat scale.

In the next singing exercise we're going to learn how to belt safely. In this exercise you're going to sing the sound "Nae" as in "nasty" on an octave arpeggio repeat scale.

Unfortunately, the "Nae" does not work for everyone and so sometimes it's helpful to work with different vocal exercises to solve this problem.

In the next singing exercise I'm going to show you a way that you can sing those higher notes in a belted way without straining your voice.

In this exercise, you're going to sing an octave arpeggio repeat scale on the sound "Bae" as in bat.

In the next technique, you're going to learn to sing without strain.

In this exercise you're going to sing the sound "Mah" as in "mom" on an octave repeat scale.

In the final exercise, we're going to relax your entire vocal range by singing the word "Mum" as in a British mother on an octave and a half scale.

As you sing through these vocal exercises, make sure that you're not straining or hurting your voice.

The whole point of vocal exercises is to sing without straining your voice so that you can learn to do something new and apply that feeling to songs as well.