Questions & Answers

Yo yo yo!

First up I drink loads of water! If we are dehydrated even if we warm up we could still damage the voice. So I start drinking 3 hours before work, and get 32oz on board before I do anything, and keep drinking throughout the day,

I start out with a full body physical warm up to relax and get my breath going (a work out with a cool down if I can, but I have a sixth month old sooooo... mostly just 5 mins of stretching at the mo! Ha ha! Focusing on releasing my diaphram.

Then some gentle sirens to get the voice slowly warmed up. Through the full range, and then slowing down and blowing less air at the cracks to smooth them out.

Then work on my different resonators and vocal qualities. This is something that may be different to a regular singing warmup. If we are doing different character voices we may want to access different parts of our voice. The Chest voice, The Mask, The Head, Lower larynxs, Vocal Fry etc, so just Maaaaaaaing or vvvvaaaaaaing or jjjjjaaaaaaaaaring with those qualities can help open them up!

Lastly some tongue twisters to get the articulators going! I sometimes do this in diffrent accents if I know I've got a tough accent day ahead!

And then I'M OFF!!!!! WAHOO!!!!

Do we think a 'Vocal Warm Up' article would be good to add to the list?

Cheers,

Kev