#💪・Vocal Exercises

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Basic Vocal warm ups: - by @river mulch

Pitch:

  • Basic Pitch Matching - with a tuning app/instrument
  • Legato Scales - connectivity between notes
  • Arpeggios - do re mi fa so la ti do - following a pattern of repetition to help developing a musical ear and recognizing pitch differences
  • Singing scales, while following a Piano guide

Hyponasality: a resonance disorder where too little sound resonates in the nasal cavity, causing a "stuffy," "blocked," or "mono" tone

  • Humming basic pitches, lyrics or scales
  • Practice lifting the soft palate (the roof of the mouth) to allow airflow
  • Sirens on a nasal vowel - ney, ney, ney

**Separating the Tongue: **

*Focus on preventing the back of the tongue from pressing into the soft palate.

Hypernasality occurs when there is abnormal sound energy in the nasal cavity during production of voiced, oral sounds

Yawning exercises
Focus on keeping the back of the tongue from rising and meeting the soft palate during non-nasal vowels

Support

Leaky Tyre - a breathing exercise used for control or a technical issue involving breathy tone.
Legato Scales - connecting the notes of a scale, for breath control
Straw exercises - SOVT - singing through a straw, manages breath control, allows you to fully engage your core and diaphragm, while reducing the amount of breath being used while singing.
Counted breathing (breathing in for 4, holding for 4, releasing for 8 before progressing to 8-8-16)
Humming a song

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CVT EXCERCISES - by @patent mango
More oral, less nasal – exercises:

Lower the larynx: first let them feel it.
Notice the position by swallowing and observing what the larynx does.
Yawning and looking surprised.
Saying “especially” (Speaking) takes time.
Vowel: A
For nasal sound.
First sing the phrase on a single vowel, then only on the vowels of the lyrics.
Lowered larynx: “oe” without the tongue touching the bottom teeth.

Mix Belt

  • Do not raise the larynx when mix belting (stay neutral).
  • Warm up well.
  • Stretch well.
  • Buzzy sound (straw).
  • Start from the straw and then add sound.
  • Build the opening from level 1 to 4.
  • No air.
  • Straw helps with vocal cord closure.

Add twang.

  • “Ya, yo” – think vertically.
  • Place fingers at the corners of the mouth so you feel you are not spreading wide.
  • Pattern: 1–3–5–1–1–1–5–3–1
  • Cry sound.
    Also pay attention to medium volume.

Extending the lower range

  • Build muscle memory.
  • Where do you place the tone?
  • Onset is important.
  • If it gets too low, keep it more forward and look for twang.
  • Project in a different way; onset is very important.
  • Project forward, really in the front of the mouth.
  • Play with this.
  • Glissando.
  • Activate breath support.
  • Hands pressed together.

Breath support

  • Expanding the sides/flanks of the ribs.
  • Sitting on the edge of a chair, bending forward, and breathing toward the belly.
  • Sitting against a wall in a squat position.
  • Pressing the hands together lightly.
  • Imitating a snake and exhaling on a tsss.
  • Pretending you have oranges under your armpits/arms.
  • Pretending you are holding heavy bags.
  • Lying on your back and breathing toward the belly.

Runs

  • Use “pa” instead of an open vowel (not an open vowel).
  • On numbers.
  • Figure out the notes slowly, then gradually speed up.
  • If it works, add the lyrics.

How to find head voice

  • Low air pressure.
  • Get softer in volume as the pitch goes higher.
  • Find tilt.
  • Vv zzz oeh oh.
  • Lip trills.
  • Tongue-tip “r.”
  • Lip trills first in seconds, then gradually larger intervals.
  • Sighing with a sob, over the pitch.
  • Think classically.
  • Short “oeh” vowel.
  • Thin out the chest voice by reducing volume, from loud to soft.
  • Slides on consonants: zz, vvv, nggg.
  • Expand vowels instead of range.
  • “Oeh oeh oeh” short notes, staccato, not glissando.
  • Practice from high to low, not from low to high.
  • Twang.

(Use 1 vowel, then 2 vowels, instead of all vowels from the words at once.)

Vocal cord closure

  • Teletubbies “o oh.”
  • Open your mouth, inhale, then hold your breath.
  • “A” – Amsterdam.

Vibrato

  • Hammering (more goat-like).
  • Vibrato with the vocal cords.
  • Throat vibrato
  • With the larynx.
  • Sing in half notes slowly, then faster.
  • Shake the hands.
  • Humming with breath support.
  • Wobble / too much vibrato

Chest voice

  • Where is it located?
  • “Hey” siren.
  • Counting out loud 1–2–3.
  • “Oh oh.”
  • Imitating a male voice.
  • Demonstrate pushing the vocal cords.
  • Add an “H” in front.
  • Look at it through twang.
  • Quick.
  • Single-note siren, expanding.
  • “Ha ho,” vowels in speaking voice range.
  • Let the transition click be heard.
  • Head voice to chest voice.

Anchoring

  • Using your muscles.
  • Exercises that activate anchoring muscles.
  • The body is just as important as the vocal cords themselves.
  • Activating specific muscles.
  • How to use certain muscles so you don’t create pressure.