Garforth Singing Schools
Singing and Piano Lessons, Garforth, Leeds
Singing Exercises and Warm ups
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Preliminary non-singing warmup.
Now you can do some basic singing exercises.
Exercise 1:
Using “Ah” vowel, smoothly gliding the voice up and down.
Repeat the pattern on the next note up.
Audio: High voice
Audio: Low voice
Audio: High voice
Long version
Audio: Low voice
Long version
Exercise 2:
Repeat the pattern on the next note up.
Audio: High
Audio : Low
Exercise 3:
Go from the very bottom of your range to the very top.
At least 5 times.
Audio: All voices
Exercise 4:
Using any vowel, smoothly gliding the voice up and get louder on the top note.
Audio: High
Audio: Low
Exercise 5:
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Exercise 6:
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Exercise 7:
Audio: High
Audio: Low
Exercise 8:
Using vowels, smoothly gliding the voice up and down.
Repeat the pattern on the next note up.
Audio: High
Audio:Low
Exercise 9:
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Using “Ee” (or other vowels) vowel, use good support, listen for a bright “twang” sound.
Do a vocal slide on “ng” or “brrrr” or “bbbbb” or any vowel.
Repeat the pattern on the next note up (as shown).
Ng…..........ah...................eh..................ee...............aw..................oo........
Smoothly move from vowel to vowel keeping the same tone quality.
Ng…..........ah.....................ee..................aw..................
Smoothly move from vowel to vowel keeping the same tone quality.
Sing from third space C up to G
Ah…......eh.........ay.........ee..........ah.........o..........aw........oo..........ah
Repeat this pattern on the next note up.
Start with a “ng” if needed. Keep the tone the same throughout.
CONSONANTS
Improving your use of consonants in songs can make the words much easier to hear for your audience.
You might want to practice these when no-one is listening :D
Generally about consonants
Consonants often come in pairs using the same mouth parts but one is breathed and the other is voiced. For e.g., listen to “zzz” and “sss” which are made the same way, but one is voiced (you have to make a sound in the voice box) and the other breathed.
Consonants have different group names (plosives, fricatives, continuants etc)
Consonant exercises:
A good start is to wake up the face with the following:
Exaggeratedly going
EEEoooo, EEEooo, EEEooo
WAHooo, WAHooo, WAHooo
Plosives
Try repeating the followingconsonants and trying to sound a bit like a machine gun to get them clear. You can put vowels at the end of them for fun – e.g., PPPPPPah, BBBBBBooo
P, B
T, D
K, G
Fricatives
S, Z
Th (e.g., through), TH (e.g. these)
F, V
Continuants
Mmmm
Nnnnn
Ng
Other consonants
R – can be rolled, flicked or silent
L – can be light, as in “light”, or dark, as in “full”
Audio examples (all voices)