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

[Music] [Music] hello my love's this is Madeleine Harvey this is Madeleine Harvey thanks so much for hanging out with me today what I thought would be wonderful per your request is to put together a very basic very gentle very easy quick warmup let's say if you don't have a lot of time to invest in a warm-up like what are some really good essential things you must do to get your voice ready to be used so if you liked today's video please be sure to give it a thumbs up or click that subscribe button below I'd love to see you 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 going to 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 in a little deeper and giving it the primary responsibility 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 gonna ask for our eight counts we're gonna suspend the breath meaning don't breathe in don't breathe out and then we're gonna s for another eight counts you ready here we go take a breath in good good good good so you can feel that as we lift that diaphragm 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 gonna do is it's going to 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 excellent so your abs should be really feeling it really encouraging that diaphragm to lift from 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 consonant so to encourage a little bit of a quicker response we're gonna 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 gonna regular F pulse for just eight now we're not going to suspend it this time we're just gonna F pulse for eight here we gonna breathe in good very good now F pulse for eight hold for eight let's see if we can manage that good good now now your diaphragm is awake it's understanding what's required of it now we're gonna add tone to this and we're gonna do it in a way that is nice and gentle and can balance pressure so there's not a better thing that balances pressure in the vocal world than a simple drill that you can do tongue trill well you can do lip trill I prefer the lip trill but I'll let you decide what's right for you so we're gonna pulse on a single pitch five times now you want to make sure that movement is coming from the center of your body so we'll go okay feeling that gentle almost like we're babies bouncing around in our little bouncers so here we go now we're gonna start middle C guys if you want to start an octave below that's peachy keen fine with me here we go ready [Music] [Music] 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 say [Music] [Applause] [Music] 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 a diaphragm and we've post giving it a little bit more speed now let's get some tone in this mother so what I want to do today I figured what would be most value for you guys is to sink the sink mechanism with the speak mechanism really feeling at least in your warm-ups that they they sort of feed off of each other they take their cues from each other so we're just going to chew a nice somewhat narrow somewhat closed tone to really encourage air pressure now Tom consistency is kind of just the art of balancing air pressure between the nose and the mouth so this chewing is a wonderful way to feel the influence of both the nose and the mouth that way we're never uh we're not pushing from our throats and we're not oh we're not flipping if we don't intend to flip we know how to balance that bear pressure so we're gonna say yum yum yum why um but we're gonna be very quick to close that tone like yeah mm-hmm very quick to close it this is just gonna give your voice something to hold on to which is that in constant we're just gonna think of it as like chewing which also gives the job tongue and throat something to do that is not interfering with your voice a really great way to ease ourselves into this this absurd but kind of awesome fun exercise it's to pretend that we have to communicate with each other and let's say we're frustrated or annoyed and the only word that we have in our language is YUM how might we convey our frustration or annoyance if the only word we have is young we might go yum yum yum yum yum yum right so this is just again speak mechanism into sink mechanism really getting us focused on that that feeling of balancing that air pressure and getting it out and away from us so now let's let's just play with this together let's just be silly together so now I'm gonna be annoyed yum yum yum yum yum yeah right yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum right now as I'm just playing with this I'm feeling the influence of both my nose and my mouth and one is not working harder than the other they're both holding equal importance so now let's put this in an exercise so ladies if this is too much free jump in when it feels a little bit more but I want us to pretend again that we're just we're being playful we're conveying something but the only thing that we have to say is yum yum yum this will mimic music using rhythm pitch and dynamics which is music [Music] [Music] there's a lot of fun but once we've activated the diaphragm we've pulsed that quick twitch and now we've balanced our tone your voice is ready to be used so thank you so much for hanging out with me today guys if you've liked this video please be sure to give it a thumbs up or click that subscribe button below I would love to see you here more often but thank you again for hanging out with me today I hope you've enjoyed this warmup and I will see you next time bye laughs [Music]

Channel: Madeleine Harvey

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Keywords: vocal warm up, vocal warm ups, vocal warmup, voice warmup, singing warm up, singing exercises, warm up techniques for singers, warm up your voice, warm up singing, quick warm up

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Length: 12min 9sec (729 seconds)

Published: Sun May 10 2020