Vocal Exercises

Vocal Exercise Goals & Instructions:

Vocal Exercises are your Kung Fu. Some exercises are designed to (STRETCH) your voice, others are designed to (WARM UP) your voice.  Remember, your greatest strides with your voice will come from how often you practice your Kung Fu.  Some of these will be difficult in your range, it is better to go lighter in your head voice than to avoid the notes altogether.  If you have any questions, let me know!

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1) Key-Aye-Ah & Zee-Aye-Ah on one note     (WARM UP)
DOWNLOAD FOR: Lower Voice |  Higher Voice
Goal?  Maintain Tone as you move from one vowel to the next. Vowels shouldn't sound stronger than other vowels. We want them to all have the same qualities

2) Flay-Flah descend from 5-4, 4-3, 3-2, 2-1    (WARM UP)
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Goal? Keep this light and flicky.  Feel your voice. We should feel your voice hit your hard & soft pallets

3) Please, Stay Melody - 8-7-6-4 / 8-7-6-3 / 8-7-6-4/ 8-7-6-6  (WARM UP) (STRETCH)
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Goal? Maintain tight vibration the Ee in Please.  Keep the same vibration from Ee present & round as you change to Stay.

4) Me-May-Ma-Mo-Moo - 5-4-3-2-1 descending on Me then, repeat Me-May-Ma-Mo-Moo (STRETCH)
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Goal? Move through pure tones on vowels. Maintain tone and distance.

5) Vee - Vay - 6, 3, 4 - 4, 3 , 2, 1 , 7, 6 on a Minor Scale  (WARM UP) (STRETCH)
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Goal? Keep a hard Ee on Vee. Then use your skull to open and project the distance.  It's okay to use head voice on top notes as you will work through your pasaggio.

6) Hey you! May You Find It   5-3, 5,4,3,2  (STRETCH)
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Goal? Calling voice. Don't push, call! Kind of like calling out 'Joe'

7) Head/Falsetto Voice Octave Jump Descending on an Oo    8-1  (WARM UP) (STRETCH)
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Goal? Don't leave the placement from your top note on the descent. You can go lighter but don't change the placement

8)  Chest/Head Jump on a Zee 1,2,3, head 2 octave higher descend on  8,7,6, 5 (STRETCH)
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Goal? Stay relaxed and don't force the placement. Better to go lighter and hit the note than miss.

9) Diaphragm Arpeggio Exercise Ha-Ah-Oh, 5, minor 3rd, 1  ascending/descending half-steps (STRETCH)
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Goal? We're exercising the diaphragm.  Take short fast panic breaths (like you forgot to say something) and bounce from note to note.

10) The Yo Melody Exercise   (STRETCH)
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Goal?  Stay groany. Feel like this is a pirate shanty and your goal is to sing very larghetto while you're calling to the sea!

11) The Vee Vay Melody Exercise  (STRETCH)
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Goal?  Use the Ee of Vee to supercharge your notes. Focus on raising your soft palate and maintaining the calling technique

12) Open Closed Open Vowel Exercise *New!* (STRETCH)
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Goal?  We've been working on using closed vowels to spring into open vowels.   Let's try it now mid-open vowel.   Move to the closed vowel position and make a hard switch

13) Harmony Exercise (1-3-5) *New!* (STRETCH)
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Goal?  Stay in your lane.  Don't be pulled by what you hear.  We're focusing on trying to maintain the 1-3-5 of the chord we hear

14) Harmony Exercise (1-7 of the chord) *New!* (STRETCH)
DOWNLOAD FOR: Lower Voice |  (coming) Higher Voice
Goal?  Maintain the 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 of the chord.  Stay open and avoid diphthongs or moving.  Try to make the purest resonance you can in order to create a harmony.

COMING SOON:   Bonus cool down - 5,4,3,2,1 Descending Oo, Ee
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