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The best way to get the most out of your voice is to learn to breathe
properly. It's also the best way to start your warm-up.
- Stand with your feet shoulder width
apart, knees relaxed, arms hanging loosely. Theoretically and ideally, you've
already gone through a physical warm-up. Take a deep, diaphragmatic breath and allow
yourself to drop forward at the waist as you exhale. Roll back up and repeat, this
time adding a sound as you inhale. Repeat several more times, getting louder each
time.
- Play motorcycle. Vibrate your
lips, making engine sounds, taking the pitch up and down. Pretending to ride the
road is optional, but makes it more fun.
- Massage the sides of the jaw, releasing
any tension you hold there. Cupping your hand in your chin, work your jaw up and
down as fast as you can, making a sound. It'll come out something like
"wawawawawawaw," but the faster the better.
- Standing upright, breathing deeply,
slowly and with control, start repeating "Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha." Think Eliza
Doolittle with her paper and flame. Listen to hear if the sound is resonating in
your chest. Feel the vibrations.
- Sustain your breath on a hum.
Play with the pitch, up and down the scale, feeling the vibrations resonate through your
body. As you get more adapt at feeling the resonation, try and move it deliberately,
through your chest, your jaw, your nose, your sinus cavities, your forehead, the top of
your head, then back down again.
- Moving on, we go from just open sound
to a shaped one, working different syllables to loosen the tongue and jaw. Start with each
set slowly, repeating it until you feel confident, then increase your speed until it is
almost a hum.
- La
- Le
- Te
- Ta-Ka
- O-E
- mamalo papalo
- Once you feel like you've loosened up,
move on to the other vocal exercises.
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