Warm-up plays the most important role for any professional singer as well as for anyone interested in keeping his voice healthy. You can think of foreplay as a magic tuning of your voice box to cover every kind of sound production and sound abuse.
Step
Method 1 of 2: Full Body Tactics
Step 1. Maintain good posture
To get the best airflow and therefore the best sound, you need to have good posture. This applies to both sitting and standing. Imagine a line across the top of your head, through your back, holding your position.
- If you are standing, keep your feet flat on the floor shoulder width apart. Balance evenly on both feet. Keep your head straight and shoulders back. Every part of your body should be in the same line.
- If you're sitting, follow the same recommendations as you would for standing, but also keep your back off the back of the chair, sitting toward the edge of the chair.
Step 2. Breathe deeply
Most people have a bad habit of using only the tops of their lungs. Doing this doesn't use your diaphragm and doesn't let you use your full power.
If you strain too much while breathing, it will reverberate in the muscles of your vocal cords. Breathe normally, but remain conscious to keep your shoulders low and your chest relaxed. Concentrate on lower breathing while still relaxing all of your joints. If you need to, place your hand on your stomach to remind yourself that it's the part that should be moving up and down, not the chest and shoulders. Hold an "s" sound (like a hiss) as you exhale to control the amount of air you can exhale
Step 3. Release your jaw
Any tension will prevent you from getting the best sound. The jaw is an instrument from which your voice will come out, so you have to take care of that too.
Massage your cheeks with the heel of each hand. Push in and down just below your cheekbones and twist in a clockwise motion. Your jaw should open without you even realizing it and will be forced to relax. Do this several times
Step 4. Drink warm liquids
The icy cold water will just silence your vocal cords, in a very literal sense. Avoiding caffeine and nicotine is also best. All of these things will constrict your throat and prevent you from producing your best sound.
Hot tea or water at room temperature is best for you. You definitely want your vocal cords to stay lubricated, but you don't want to freeze or scorch them either! If you choose tea, make sure it is not too hot
Method 2 of 2: Before You Sing
Step 1. Take measurements
You won't be running 8.0 km out of the gate, so don't expect your voice box to also go up and down by 3 octaves. Take measurements slowly to warm up your voice, extending its range up and down. And it's quite easy to do, even alone.
If you breathe properly and hold yourself properly, it will be easier to hit the notes that are at your high note level. However be patient and work gradually. You're really going to hurt your voice if you start it too low or too high, forcing him to do things he really doesn't want to do
Step 2. Work with lip and tongue vibrations
Another common way of heating apart from size is by vibration. The vibration relaxes the lips and tongue, engages breathing and relieves tension.
- For lip vibrations, simply make a 'raspberry' sound by loosely pressing your lips together. Experiment with different consonant sounds, such as the letters "h" and "b". Gently guide your voice range up and down, but don't do anything that's uncomfortable or difficult to maintain.
- For tongue vibrations, think of the letter "r" in Spanish. Place your tongue behind your upper teeth and exhale strongly. Hold sound and air steady, switch pitch levels when vibrating. Again, don't do anything your voice doesn't want you to do. you will know.
Step 3. Add siren and kazoo
Some of the more enjoyable warm-ups are sirens and kazoos. As you sound your siren (which should start low and go high), use your arms and throw it in a circular motion, rising and falling according to the pitch.
- Kazoo focuses on the voice and stretching of the vocal cords in a healthy and controlled way. Just pretend like you're smoking spaghetti -- it's that simple. On exhalation, make a "woo" sound; the sound will come out like a buzz. Hold sound steadily, rising and falling to extreme levels of your voice range. Do this several times.
- Try a few tongue twists that go up and down in pitch. This will prepare your voice for complex songs. A good one is 'Seven salty sailors sailed the seven seas (which is repeated in Do Re Mi).
Step 4. Buzzing
Buzzing actually helps calm the sound as well, which is an often overlooked, though important, technique. This will warm your voice without straining it as singing can.
Release your jaw and relax your shoulders. Inhale normally and exhale with a "hum" sound. Navigate from high to low, like sighing half a siren. If you feel tingling around your nose and lips, you've done a good job
Tips
- Drink lots of water. Make sure the water is at room temperature -- cold liquids will tighten your vocal cords.
- Do not drink milk or cold water. The milk will coat your throat and make it harder to push the air out. Don't drink milk for less than 24 hours from when you want to sing. The cold water will shock your vocal chords.
- Sounds that have been heated can recover from sound abuse more quickly than sounds that are not heated. Relax after about 30 minutes.
- Make sure you have the correct tongue posture when practicing vowel sounds. As you move up and down the pitch, your mouth should open and close accordingly (thus creating the same vowel sound in each note). Your mouth will be open because you'll be pushing your tongue forward, keeping the same space. Too much space will result in indistinct sound production.
- Make sure you know what you're doing. There are many singing schools, so be familiar with which schools are best for the long term.
- Be confident and practice, always knowing your limits.
Warning
Don't be ashamed of your own voice. You can trick your mind into tensing your vocal cords. Try to relax consciously
Sources & Citation
- ↑ 1, 01, 11, 21, 31, 4https://www.entnet.org/AboutUs/worldVoiceVocalWarmup.cfm
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↑ 2, 02, 1https://voices.yahoo.com/how-warm-singing-voice-4158253.html?cat=33
