10 minute Vocal Warm Up - Do this before you sing!

What are some quick vocal warm up exercises that I recommend to all my voice students?Hyperlinks to jump to specific parts of this video:
Activate your diaphragm 2:20
F sound for a quicker response 4:05
Lip trills to balance pressure 5:30
Yum sound to blend registers 10:20

I am Madeleine Harvey. Thanks so much for hanging out with me today. Per your request is to put together a very basic very gentle very easy quick vocal warm up for when you don't have a lot of time to invest in a vocal warm up. What are some really good essential things you must do to get your voice ready to be used?

So if you'd like to his video please be sure to give it a thumbs up. It could get subscribed but below I'd love to see 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 gonna 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 it a little deeper and giving it the primary response ability 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 going to ask for our eight counts. We're going to suspend the breath meaning don't breathe in don't breathe out and then we're going to s for another eight counts.

You're ready. Here we go. Take a breath in. Good good good good. So you can feel that as we lift that die from 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 going to do is it's gonna 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. Excellence so your ad should be really feeling it really encouraging that day from to lift from the 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 consider it.

So to encourage a little bit of a quicker response we're going to 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 going to regular f pulse for just eight. Now at this time we're just going to f pulse for eight. Here we go. Then good. Very good. Now as pulse for eight. Hold for eight and see if we can manage that. Any breathing in. Good. Good. Now. Now your diaphragm is awake. It's understanding what's required of it. Now we're going to add tone to this and we're going to do it in a way that is nice and gentle and can balance pressure so there's not a better saying that balance is pressure in the vocal world than a simple trill. Now you can do tongue shrill or you can do literal. I prefer the electro but I'll let you decide what's right for use. We're going to pulse on a single pitch five times. You want to make sure that movement is coming from the center of your body.

So where we'll go. OK. Feeling that gentle almost like we're babies bouncing around and a little bounce. So here we go. Now we start middle C guys if you want to start an optical go that's peachy keen fine with me. Here we go. Ready 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 sing three recovery 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 the diaphragm and we've pulsed giving it a little bit more speed now let's get some tone in this mother.

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