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Vocal Warm Up Techniques
Have you ever
been to the gym or gone for a run and your muscles felt
sore the next day because you forgot to warm up?
Singing is no different.
Before you sing, you need to warm up your voice first.
If you do not warm up, you will be putting strain on
your voice.
Here are a few quick vocal warm up
techniques you can use. You will be surprised at how
much better your voice will sound after using these
vocal warm up techniques.
Vocal Warm Up # 1:
Breathing
Take a deep breath and fill your
lungs all the way down to your abdomen. Hold it for 3
seconds and slowly blow the air out through your mouth
in a constant flow.
Imagine you are blowing through a
straw and allow the air to slowly come out of the end of
the straw until you run out of breadth. Imagine a candle
in front of you, and blowing your breath so slowly that
the air passes through the flame, but it does not go
out.
Repeat this
exercise for 7 times.
Vocal Warm Up # 2:
Vibrate your lips
Blow through your mouth and make
your lips vibrate (imitate the sound of a motor boat).
While you are doing this, make a humming sound, that
goes from low to high and back down to low again (like
your voice is travelling up a mountain and back down
again).
Repeat this
exercise for 7 times.
These simple vocal warm up
techniques will help you to avoid damaging your precious
vocal chords and allow you to quickly warm up your voice
before you begin to sing.
Jo Jo
The Naked Singer
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