Singing Warm-UpsSinging warm-ups free printable sheets, for your vocal students. Address vocal resonance, relaxation, breathing for singing, vocal range, and other issues with these vocal warmups.
I start all voice lessons with singing warm-ups of some kind. If it is a morning or even early afternoon lesson, the vocal warmups will probably start with humming and careful listening with harmony... a singing exercise that stretches gently and softly. If my student has already warmed up, we may start right in with one of their songs, but more likely, we will start with a round such as "Heigh, Ho" or "Have You Seen the Ghost of John" to get them listening and concentrating as they sing, or we will work on a duet or group song that we are preparing for a recital. This way, they don't sing "full voice" right at first. In fact, it is best, I tell my students, when they are still working at learning the notes of a song, to sing sotto voce, with a subdued voice, or even down an octave much of the time as they practice the song, if the vocal line lingers up high for a while. (This is also a very good practice in choral groups, and especially in long rehearsals of The Messiah!) Some students seem blessed with a naturally warm, flexible, high and phlegm-free voice. How I envy them. Others (more like me!) have voices that wake up tight and a little stiff unless the voice is "flexed" every day, a bit like a new, unstretched balloon. But however blessed your singing student may be naturally, learning a set of vocal warmups that they can recall by memory at home, and use to gently warm themselves up, will help prevent sore, "blown" voices when they sing for an hour or more a day at lessons, rehearsals or just around the house. As a vocal teacher working at the piano bench, these warm-ups are most efficiently performed at lessons if you have the ability to transpose the patterns up or down a half-step after each repetition. This is a sophisticated skill! But it can be learned. If transposing seems too much of a stretch for you, take a look at my page for Beginning Piano students Mary Had a Little Lamb. Transposing using a very easy song is a great way to get started. But to help those who are less pianists than vocalists, all of the vocal exercises are written in the key of C (all white notes!) More vocal warmups are coming! Please be patient.
Vocal Warmups
Do You Have a Vocal Warm-up or a Story to Share?I'd love to know about your favorite warm-ups, perhaps passed on to you by a dear teacher, or one you have made up yourself and come to rely upon. Tell us how you use it! What Other Visitors Have SaidClick below to see contributions from other visitors to this page...
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