1. 1. Vocal Warm Up Exercises With Hanna Engel
2. 2. Why is Warming Up Important? Good For Vocal Health Helps you work on and improve technique Increases blood flow and temperature to breathing mechanism Prevents vocal strain and injury
3. 3. Breathing Exercise Lie with your back on the ground Take deep breaths, feeling your stomach expand Exhale slowly on a shhh sound until you are completely out of air This is breathing with your diaphragm
4. 4. Lip Trills Relax your face and lips completely Breathe in with your diaphragm Expel air through your lips making a brbrbr sound Do this freely throughout your range going from high to low then low to high
5. 5. Humming Warm Up Hum the following exercise Keep your soft palette high, creating space Do NOT press the sound Continue exercise through your comfortable range
6. 6. Ng-Ah Pitched Warm Up Assume correct singing posture Hold syllable nnng then release to a and and continue down the scale (below) Take this exercise through your comfortable range Helps create a clear, focused tone and stretch your range
7. 7. Scale Warm Up Sing on syllables mee-yo for this exercise in the pattern below Take it up and down your range Modify the vowel to a more open, taller sound as you go higher Helps with: Intonation Breath control Tone quality
8. 8. Remember Warming up is important! Keeps you from damaging your voice Always warm up before a practice session or a concert THANKS FOR WATCHING, HAPPY SINGING!
9. 9. Sources Beatty, Chris. "5 Good Reasons to Warm-Up Your Voice Before Your Sing 3." Ask the Vocal Coach. Ask The Vocal Coach, 2013. Web. 19 Nov. 2013. Cleaveland Clinic Foundation. "Diaphragmatic Breathing." Diaphragmatic Breathing. Cleaveland Clinic, 2013. Web. 19 Nov. 2013. Mathew, Aaron. "Lip-trill." Your Personal Singing Guide. Your-personal-singing-guide, 2013. Web. 19 Nov. 2013. Mayer, Michael J. "Posture." Vocal Wisdom. Vocal-wisdom, 2013. Web. 19 Nov. 2013.