10 Singing Warmups - Ridiculously Easy and Effective

what up guys it's your boy Matt from Ramsey voice calm and I am so excited to give you a complete vocal warmup today one that you can use every day whether you're getting ready to go on stage or whether you're just going into the recording studio or whether you're just trying to improve your singing voice and the cool thing about vocal warm-ups is that vocal warm-ups are the number one thing that you can do every day to improve your singing voice and you would not believe how many professional singers actually don't do them now I do want to say there's a big catch to that which is all of the best vocalists and all of the most professional singers out there actually do do warm-ups every single day but there are a lot looking at you in the rock genre that don't actually do enough warm-ups for their voice and that's a big problem a vocal warmup is going to help you in so many ways not only is it going to help you sing better but it's also going to help you avoid vocal injury which nobody wants that so you're gonna get three huge things out of today's lesson number one you're gonna learn three main things that you're going to get out of doing a vocal warmup you're also going to get five fantastic best practices for any time that you're going to warm up you want to make sure that you're following these five things exactly and then finally I'm going to give you ten amazing vocal warm-ups that you can use in practice right along with in this lesson to improve your singing voice before we jump in you know what you got to do you got to smash that like button comment with the next kind of video that you want to see me do and also make sure that you subscribe and turn on notifications for this channel or if you want to improve your singing voice today check out my complete singing course master your voice just click the link to get on the wait list for it okay let's jump in now I mentioned earlier that a vocal warmup is the number one thing that you can do to improve your singing voice today well why why is a vocal warmup actually important well I think that it's really important that you remember that the vocal cords the actual pieces of membrane and tissue and blood and muscle inside of your larynx here that are creating all of your singing they're just flesh and blood too and so going into a large vocal performance or even if you're just recording for fun without actually warming up beforehand is a bit like running without stretching beforehand the vocal cords themselves are actually going to be vibrating hundreds if not over a thousand times per second just to give you an example in order to hit the a 440 the that note right there my vocal cords need to be opening and closing 440 times per second in order to make that note so we're talking about hundreds if not thousands of collisions in your vocal cords per second and so if you don't warm up beforehand that's gonna hurt after a while now there are three main reasons that you want to make sure that you're warming up before a big performance or whether you're just warming up your voice for your voice lesson for the day the number one thing is that it's going to increase the blood flow into your vocal cords so just like any other muscle the more that I work it the more blood is going to actually flow into that muscle area which is going to help everything continue moving a vocal warmup is also going to thin out the mucus secretions that hang out on the vocal cords and can make so much of that kind of a raspy kind of coarse sound you always want that nice open ah sound and you don't want to get that clouded up with any of the mucus and the third huge reason that you want to sing with a vocal warmup is that it's going to help you improve your mixed voice if you haven't heard the term mixed voice before it basically means that you're blending the bottom part the chest voice with the top part of your voice the head voice to create one even sound so ma ma ma ma ma that's on an f-sharp in the middle of my voice and that's no longer in my chest choice it's not exactly all the way in my head voice either instead it's a mix it's a blend between the two in the problem with singers who don't warm up it is very very difficult to find that mix voice unless you've warmed up beforehand in other words very often it's easy ma ma ma ma ma ma mom and have a big old break in your voice if you haven't warmed up but after having warmed up cool it'll be so much easier for you now before we jump into the vocal warm-ups I actually want to give you five recommendations five best practices that you can use every time that you're going to do a vocal warmup the number one thing that you want to start off with is warm-up for 30 to 60 minutes per day if you're going to be doing a big performance later on you can limit it to just 30 minutes or even maybe 20 or 25 minutes just enough to get everything moving in your voice everything working again however if you're warming up just to improve your singing voice in order to do a voice lesson for the day or something like that you can warm up up to an hour and I would recommend doing about 30 minutes of vocal warm-ups exercises and then the second half hour you can work on a song the next best practice for doing your vocal warm-ups is I want you to really focus on the vocal exercise that you're doing oftentimes when you're doing singing lessons it's really easy to just kind of like spaced out and like you're just like like you're not even thinking about it anymore you're just like your mind somewhere else however I cannot emphasize how important it is that you keep a really close eye on the exercise that you're doing oftentimes that's because you may actually do something really really great with your voice but if you're not paying attention to it it's gonna be really difficult to kind of like reiterate that I have that problem with students all the time they'll just be like they may be flipping their Iggy Iggy and then all of a sudden on the next one their keke they sing in a beautiful mixed voice and I'm like did you feel that did you feel that and they're like did I feel what it's like it totally passed them by so go ahead and focus on each one of the exercises specifically and how they sound and how they feel the third best practice for doing your vocal warm-ups is you want to make sure that you have water handy fact I'll take a little sip myself right now the reason that you want to have water handy is because just like any other muscle the vocal chords can get a little bit dehydrated and especially since you're breathing in and out so much things can be a little bit dry in there now it will take about 30 minutes for the water that you drink to actually pass through your stomach and actually make its way all the way into the vocal cords and some of the other tissue in your body so I always recommend doing a hot shower in the morning along with some of the vocal exercises and the vocal warm-ups that I do here because the steam that comes out of the shower will actually impact to the vocal cords a lot faster than just drinking water I'm not saying to replace it at all but I'm saying that if you wake up and your voice feels really dry really hoarse take a hot shower get some of the steam in there but plenty of water you should be drinking a couple of liters of water per day depending on your weight and your gender in general women I believe can drink about two and a half liters of water a day and men are around like 3.5 and both of those are a fantastic place to get started but just make sure that you have water handy because we're moving things around in here and when those things move around sometimes it's very easy to get like a little bit of mucus that comes up and you want to be able to wash that off very quickly the next best practice before you warm up is you want to make sure that you have a good night's rest I cannot emphasize how important this is because there are so many more important things to your body into your survival than learning to sing so if you're really really tired or for instance if you're really really hungry your mind is gonna start shutting off those parts of your brain that are trying to learn how to do this very complex activity instead they'll just focus on man I'm so tired man I'm so hungry instead just eliminate those right away get a good night's sleep have good nutrition and then you'll be ready a little are you also want to make sure that when you're doing your vocal warm-ups that you have a healthy voice I know this seems really obvious but if you have a cold or the flu or something like that you just can't expect to get the same quality out of your voice as when you're healthy so make sure that you have a healthy voice and if your voice is feeling under the weather if you're not feeling well and you do have an important performance coming up make sure to book a lesson with a teacher that really knows what they're doing there are definitely ways that as a voice teacher I can help my students get that function back into their voices and get their voice like feeling maybe not as good as new but pretty close to where it was but again you have to use some really really specific vocal techniques and it really depends on that individual singer now that we've gone through the best practices before you warm up let's actually jump into my 10 favorite vocal warm-ups you ready to get started let's do it the first vocal warmup that I want to show you how to do is we have to start off by just warming up the chest voice one of my favorite exercises for doing this is what I call the five tone count exercise and basically we're going to just sing a 5 to 1 scale so uh but we're actually going to count those words on each one of the pitches so it'll be kind of like a 1 2 3 4 5 4 3 2 1 and guys we can start right there on the c3 so it'll be like I'm 1 2 3 4 5 4 3 2 1 1 2 3 4 5 4 3 2 1 1 2 3 4 5 4 3 2 1 ladies we can do the same thing right here on that G 3 1 2 3 4 5 4 3 2 1 1 2 3 4 5 4 3 2 1 1 2 3 4 5 4 3 2 1 this is a really really great exercise just to get everything kind of working in your voice and notice that I wasn't too breathy or too light instead I just kind of spoke the words and that's getting the complete closure in my vocal cords that I need in order to get them warmed up now that you've warmed up the bottom part of your voice a little bit let's actually warm up the entire vocal range now for this one we're gonna use one of my absolute favorite exercises the octave and a half lip trill the lip trill is so so fantastic and helping you warm up your entire voice because it's very difficult to kind of flip on the lip trill the lip trill in case you're not familiar is this and in case you can't tell it's very difficult to and have that big old break there and since learning how to sing in a mix is one of the biggest reasons to do a vocal warmup it only stands to reason that we should start off here with the lip trill so what we're gonna do is we're gonna do an octave and a half scale on a lip trill in case you haven't done a lip trill before just take your two fingers place them in the middle of your cheeks and flop your lips together I'm not pushing them to four I'm not pulling them back instead I'm just resting them and behind those lips I'm thinking the vowel now what we're gonna do is we're gonna do that on our trusty octave and a half scale and in case you haven't seen some of my other videos the octave and a half scale is really simple it just goes one two three one two three one two three one two three one just like that so you could also think of it in terms of triplets like triple it triple it triple it triple it done whatever it is that makes the most sense to you just follow that and what we're gonna do is we're gonna do that on the lip trill now keep in mind I can't do it because I'm playing the piano at the same time but in my voice it would look kind of linka now I'm gonna go ahead and play and do the lip trill at the same time like this guys join me here on the beyond to [Music] fantastic job ladies let's do the same thing starting here on g3 now notice on none of them did I really get stuck into the bottom part of my boys like I didn't get stuck in my chest voice later and just try to push it instead this is all about relaxing just super easy just letting it flow and that is one of the best vocal warm-ups for you in the next exercise we're gonna take that same octave and a half scale but rather than flopping our lips together in order to start singing on each one of those notes instead we're going to do it on a squeaky mm-hmm feeling so just say that with me kind of like a mm-hmm and notice that it's kind of squeaky like I'm opening a door like and what we're gonna do is we're just gonna go in that same octave and a half scale and keep it really squeaky the reason that we're doing it kind of squeaky is because that squeaky or that kind of bratty or which you're kind of nasal squeaky sound is bringing the vocal cords together and remember that's one of the whole reasons that we're doing a warm-up in the first place is to continue to get those vocal chords working together from bottom to top great so let's start the guys off down here so it's going to be like let's do that here notice I'm not just pushing up to an in cinema [Music] great job ladies let's do the same thing here [Music] and don't worry if it feels or sounds kind of nasal to you it's an mm in my mouth is closed of course it's gonna be nasal but the whole point here again remember is to just keep those vocal chords working from bottom to top so if I feel like I'm disconnecting to falsetto that's not good what we want is that really hmm kind of squeaky feeling even if it doesn't sound perfect just yet great job guys so I have to be honest so far we've just done exercises with our mouths somewhat closed we call that a semi inclusive exercise or a semi occluded vocal tract posture like the I'm closing something in my mouth and that's actually helping my vocal cords stay together a little bit more and it's a really cool concept called reactance which we can talk about another time for today let's just jump into our next vocal warmup but this time we're actually going to open our mouths slightly but keep on that same octave and a half scale now if you know my channel you've probably seen this one before we're gonna do an octave and a half gig Iggy like you're saying the word geese but on each of the nodes so it would be kind of like a a geeky guys join me here on b2 keke keke keke keke keke keke [Music] ladies Kiki excellent notice I'm not pushing I'm not geeky yeah until those top notes or anything like that I'm not disconnecting - falsetto either I just came in all together great job now I have to be honest so far that gay especially on that octave and a half scale is really really good at allowing your voice to change from bottom to top however it can be really easy sometimes to flip in that one so like for instance like a Giggy Giggy so rather than letting it just keep flipping or disconnecting into falsetto I want to give you an exercise that's going to help you actually find a stable place on those voice so what we're gonna do is we're just going to walk up repeat it top note four times and come back down this time we'll actually change that consonant from a G to a B so it would be kind of like this BBB BBB BBB guys go ahead and join me here [Music] bb-bb-bb-bb-bb-bb-bb PPP PPP one more BBB PPP PPP ladies we're gonna do the same thing we're gonna start right here on the b4 so it's like a bee bee bee bee bee bee bee bee bee bee bee bee bee bee bee bee bee bee bee bee bee bee pppp pppp and notice how on each of those I'm really getting that stable note it's on baby beat baby baby like I'm just saying beat and that's actually helping my voice connect to those top notes now that you found some more power on those high notes on the BBB exercise let's actually build a little bit more into them so we're gonna do that same octave repeat scale this time we're just gonna do it on a bratty ney now if you've been following my channel for any amount of time you'll have seen that I love to get about this bratty ney it's one of the best sls exercises out there so what we're gonna do is we're gonna walk up repeat it but kind of funny like me like don't be afraid to make it sound really really funny like the Wicked Witch for guys it's gonna sound like this nee nee nee nee nee nee nee nee nee nee nee nee nee nee nee nee nee nee nee nee keep it money nee nee nee nee nee nee nenene ladies you're gonna do the same thing I can't start on this be on top so name me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me name now with any luck if you did those right you're gonna feel how you're getting a name like a very full sounding mixed voice on that top note now I know it sounds really really ugly so far however if you build more into that and keep doing these warm-ups a little bit every day you can turn that like you can actually start to turn that into some real singing for you now now that you've got that same feeling on that repeat let's do that same thing but this time we're gonna take it on the octave and a half scale now originally I said that sometimes that octave and a half will make you want to flip a little bit and that's totally true however in this particular case since we're doing so well already and we've come so far in your vocal warm-ups I want to just expand that vowel slightly so rather than a name name name name a name a name instead I want to do it on an an an now like you're saying the word nasty or natural now let's take that same thing guys we can start down here on the B flat - so I [Music] ladies let's do the same thing starting here on g3 you feel how strong and powerful those notes are ah really gives you a lot of body up there and you'll notice that as we go through these vocal warm-ups it's like things are getting thicker and thicker and thicker and bigger and bigger and bigger and stronger and that's exactly what we want now that we've done some of these exercises on these really kind of funny like kind of bratty kind of sounds it's time to see if we can start to normalize that sound a little bit so rallying going free maybe we can make it into more of a normal sounding kind of like an oval and this is really really important in order to get to the next level in your voice obviously I don't want you to sing like super bratty and super ugly when you're on stage instead let's keep it really really nice and normal so guys we're gonna start right here we're just gonna do that on an octave repeat no no no kind of like you're a little bit saddling no no no so let's try this go no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no keep it crying no no no no no no no no no no great job ladies let's see the same thing here on the beat no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no and you'll notice that even though that's kind of crying no no no you'll notice that actually it's a little bit more normal sounding than me really ugly you can actually turn that into some real singing and a little bit of time excellent job guys so now that we've started to pivot towards slightly more normal sounds let's do the same thing we're gonna go back to our trusty octave and a half scale this time we're gonna do it on GUG GUG GUG like you're saying the word gut but with a G at the end it kind of like this gah gah gah gah gah gah gah gah gah gah gah gah guys 20 here b2 gaga gaga gaga gaga gaga gaga gaga gaga gaga gaga gaga gaga gaga fantastic ladies let's do the same thing here Gaga gaga gaga gaga gaga gaga really think like you're saying the word guts Gaga gaga gaga gaga gaga gaga gaga gaga gaga and you've got congratulations guys we've made it to the last of the vocal warm up exercises we have to end on an oldie but a goodie which is the octave and a half mum mum mum the mum is one of the best exercises in speech level singing and that's because everything is just staying so nice and open and relaxed and runny or no and having to do any of these weird things the uh is very relaxed so we're just gonna do that on an octave and a half guys starting down here like a [Music] ladies let same thing here and that'll do it guys congratulations on completing your vocal warmup this is one that you can come back to every single day and do a little bit in each exercise but specifically focus on the ones that are a little bit harder for you what's making them more difficult could adding a little bit more bratty a little bit more cry focusing on the vowel a little bit more having more hydration could any of these things actually be impacting the way that these vocal warm-ups are going and if so try to start making those changes and one of the best ways to get started off with that is just record yourself practicing along with them do they sound the same way that mine sound do they sound worse than your normal ones do they sound different and allowing us some of those kind of like pieces of feedback that you're getting from yourself to inform how you do them moving forward guys I hope you found this video super super helpful make sure that you click like comment with the next video that you want to see me do subscribe and turn on notifications for this channel and if you're ready for all these warm-ups and a whole lot more seriously a whole lot more check out my complete singing course master your voice links in the description

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Length: 25min 14sec (1514 seconds)

Published: Tue May 05 2020