ADVANCED VOCAL WARM UP

today i want to share with you a warm-up for more advanced singers if you're a beginner you can try what you can do so um stay tuned [Music] hi and welcome to today's video in case you don't know me yet my name is freya casey professional singer and vocal coach from germany let's dive right into the warm-up i'm not going to do a lot of talking i want you to just do the exercises but there's a few explanations i have to really get into because it is very relevant how you execute always remember an exercise or any warm-up routine only can lead you to improvement or the actual goal if you do it in a very intentional way meaning you have to make sure that you know what register do i want to sing anything and do i want to have transitions how do i want to make transitions is it smooth is it a flip that i want to make intentionally what is the voice color what is the degree of vocal cord closure do i want a more breathy tone do i want to go from breathy to non-breathy or vice versa there's a lot of criteria dynamics do i want to change dynamics do i want to stay the same what's the phrasing like so all these things have so much effect on how you're going to sing and sound at the end and always being intentional is going to make you a better singer because first of all i want you to be more aware of things so that you first of all can listen to other singers and just kind of have things on your radar what it is that they're doing so that then you can also do it and then second of all i want you to have those things on your radar so that when you have a problem you run into just issues then you know where to start to fix and what you could possibly do to improve okay let's get started again always remember i can only sing in my own voice and if you have a completely different voice type from mine you're gonna have to adjust these exercises to fit your range so i like to start with a humming just very easy not very intense yet not too loud just easy and relaxing and my it's like my motto is always do what feels really great for your voice don't struggle when you start with your warm up you don't want to get into the struggles in the beginning you want to do what's great so for me a little bit of humming can never hurt so [Music] nice phrasing and breathing [Music] you notice i'm not singing every pitch same weight and the same duration i'm it's a little bit rattle which means i'm rubbing time here and putting it there because it's a very musical way to do things and i want to go lower maybe i'll just start [Music] okay let's try to go a little bit higher let's do an e e is great because there's actually a lot of space way back here in the fairings [Music] try to get the resonance connect phrasing when you go up don't think loud but think [Music] compressed it's okay to dwell on the top just a bit longer just until it feels well placed for you [Music] and feel how you need just a little bit more space when you go higher in the back you're not going to see it from the outside but if i were in an mri way back here the pharyngeal space it would actually lift a bit as i'm singing the higher notes [Music] try to get some vibrato spin on the top especially on the high notes it always makes it so much more round when you have a nice vibrato spin i think it's always a good idea to relax to eat don't spread don't make too much ooh don't darken don't brighten too much not spreading um one more just stay in chest voice and go as high as you can go into chest voice and then we're going to do head boys [Music] don't go away from that top note until you have the feeling it's well placed nice and round nice resonance a little bit of pink not brassy not too dark that's last one for me probably i wanted to do a legato and now i just pitch went wrong so the left on the e is actually more in the back when i'm in chest voice it's not because otherwise it will not sound like e need to keep a pure e sound but the lift is further back in the pharyngeal space you can feel the actual lift there when you're going that fifth up let's go to head voice that's a different story now when i'm doing a closed vowel and i'm taking it high i'm gonna have to actually open my jaw a bit more when it's a closed vowel if i have an open bound like an ah the opening is already there when i'm singing lower and so when i sing higher jaw doesn't really have to do much different when you do closed vowels so let's do head voice wherever that feels good for you not too high yet let's just do [Applause] i think that fifth really makes you aware of the space you need you know like a fifth higher is quite a lot in the human voice it's more than half an octave and so i'm quite a big leap there [Applause] i could do without vibrato but i feel especially in head voice it gets very tense when there's absolutely no vibrato [Applause] and i'm sorry if the microphone ever goes into overdrive it's just there's a lot of ping on the higher pitches on e that might happen [Laughter] [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] [Applause] [Laughter] try to have very legato transitions legato doesn't mean sliding but it also means not at all any hee-hee-hee that's a no-go no way [Applause] and if i did let me speed it up [Applause] [Music] [Applause] see how i have to lift so much more when i'm taking that close vowel very high same goes for ooh you can do that same exercise with an u or with an o o is a little bit more open than ooh it is more closed than an ah so it's right in between there okay staccato arpeggios [Music] what's really important you don't want to do hahaha you also don't want to do no glottal attack and no so you have to time essentially you have to have perfect timing and synchronization between vocal cord closure and vibration that beginning and giving air so um synchronize that and between you don't inhale you just go one deep breath and then you just time it perfectly yeah [Music] [Laughter] so if you just control everything with your diaphragm let's do it a little lower don't try to have be loud you can relax [Music] and i love fast exercises and staccato because there's no time to find the pitch you have to be dead on it's not approximately hitting the pitch you have to be instantly on the pitch so it's a lot about having the experience and feeling what it feels like to sing the pitch before you're singing it and imagining it and then like that is an octave between the lower and the higher note the lowest and the highest and so that is quite a range in your voice and so it's really good to also feel how the pharyngeal space slightly changes and how the vowel has to be adjusted in order to have the best resonance and also how your vocal cord closure you just play with it as you go high and low so let's do it a little higher [Music] make sure your jaw stays nice and relaxed still in chest voice for me now on the top pitch i'm going to try to go in head voice just for the top pitch basically you want to stay light light and accurate [Music] and try to have that accuracy of pitch it's not easy now what you can do to change it up yeah so you don't ever want to have a large push you don't want it's too much too much pushiness you should not feel exhausted afterwards if anything you should feel like almost you're holding your breath because you're only letting out the smallest amount of air because the pitch is so short and in between you just hold okay so next exercise [Music] okay probably i'm not going to play every scale because i'm not perfect at playing skin okay i was a little flat on that fourth yeah and it's because there's my transition i have to change from head to chest voice and you have to choose a scale where you can change registers and uh changing registers very quickly and very intentionally but still having exact like very good pitch control and execution that is a challenge and what's going to help you is to be centered and to be like very nice and even support throughout [Music] see again it's that transition point where i get a flat so i have to fix that so i'll stay a little lighter [Music] it's easier if i stay in head voice [Music] totally you can try to speed it up and just challenge yourself let's try to only do chest-wise now um for me probably around here yeah [Music] it's not easy yeah yeah just it's really hard to go from high to really low so what you have to do is relax your throat not get too breathy but just feel that that loosening of the vocal cord just a bit while still having control [Music] yeah that's what i have to work on most at low because that's like it's almost it's getting very close to the very low point of my voice yeah yeah oh see for my taste i'm lowering my layerings a bit too much [Music] so if i sang pop and not i don't want to start sound too dark yeah [Music] now let's do the opposite let's go up which i think is harder start around here oh my goodness that's so much harder pitch accuracy [Music] i really need my diaphragm to go up because it just increases yeah oh and will go to a head boy is it so much easier for me i don't want it to be too i want a legato and not to staccato [Music] [Music] [Music] i am literally squeezing my butt cheeks because i have to focus i need that body tension of course now i'm playing the piano i probably should stand up straight and not play the piano at the same time and make sure i lift here and don't do this um not the best thing maybe to sit at the piano just give yourself the cord and then make sure you stand up it's much easier to do these exercises standing up okay last exercise dead let's do transition it's always chest head chest head chest you can make it quite dark on the bottom [Music] [Music] [Music] you want to have a legato no yeah because you want to use your diaphragm you want a controlled and legato transition from the lower to the higher a supported transition which is the whole point of doing any of these exercises training support connection [Music] i did want to do chest voice what you want to avoid is coming from top to bottom you don't want to just find it from below you want to go directly [Music] so you want to basically what i do to make it a little smoother if i don't want an intentional flip happening i actually do a slightest decrescendo and lighten up that very instant that i go from top to bottom so it's [Music] and then i kind of just get into the pitch again and kind of ease over that break if you wanted an attention flip you just kind of slide a little bit more and then it's going to flip intentionally which sometimes we want that in music so you can do a variation of this and actually not do full closure head voice but do falsetto on top instead so let's do and try to avoid the who thing because it's you're going to have so much more accuracy if you're trying to do without the the hut is always kind of a cheat it's um it's avoiding the connection [Applause] y'all so you can take this up and down as you want so let me know in the comments how you managed to get through the exercises they may be easy for you that may be hard for you some may be really just like nothing and some may be impossible let me know in the comments how it went for you and it's the most useful if you continue to return to those exercises and repeat an exercise is almost like a new piece of music if you are not used to the sequence of pitches it might be a little awkward at first but the more and more you use the use them and practice them the easier it becomes to actually just memorize what you're supposed to do and the cool thing is you can translate that into your songs we do all those exercises in order to have more tools in our toolbox to seeing all those things that can happen in songs thank you so much for watching today give the video a thumbs up if you also want to repeat exercises and just up your game come up with new stuff that just keeps exciting you check out my free resources on my website masteryvoice.tv i have a seven days to perfect support series you get one video every day to help your support just strengthen it to become more aware i also have a free five day belting challenge if you're interested in that which soon will be held live again so make sure you stop by and maybe sign up so you get the notifications when i actually have a live run of the challenge i also have a free facebook group master your voice on facebook you can find it there it's really cool lots of singers there just sharing problems and progress and it's really cool to stay connected have a most wonderful day i hope to see you soon subscribe if you have not already and until next time always keep a song in your heart and always keep on singing bye [Applause] you

Channel: Freya Casey - Master Your Voice

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Length: 22min 20sec (1340 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 21 2020