When singing there are some basic vocal warm up exercises that you can do to get a better quality to your voice as well as improving the tone. Furthermore, regularly using the following singing techniques can help any singer develop a wider vocal range over time. Let’s get started!
Vocal Warm Up Exercises: Part 1
Ideally before you sing it is wise to warm up your vocal chords. This is especially true if you are a professional singer of some kind or take singing seriously or even if you are learning to sing online. Warming up the vocal chords helps protect injury to the pipes and enables you to sing in a stronger fashion.
These techniques may be simple but they will help!
Start by singing up and down the ‘C-chromatic’ scale. Take it slowly and do this half a step at a time. Though a simple exercise, this forces you to hit lots of notes helping smooth out the sound of your voice.
Yawning is another great exercise. Force yourself to yawn and open your mouth as wide as it will go comfortably. Now do the same and sing any note. After this sing another note but hold it, while it continues alter the pitch. Try doing this going from the bottom of the range up to the top.
If performing you should aim to spend a minimum of fifteen minutes warming up using techniques like those above.
Vocal Warm Up Exercises: Part 2
Increasing your vocal range can be easy if you use a musical instrument to help you. Simply play any particular note and sing along to it. Start low and work your way up or vice versa. Continue to hit each note until you cannot go any higher or lower. This is an easy way to help you work out exactly what your vocal range is.
It is a good idea to keep practicing singing along to each note until you can replicate them each perfectly with your voice. Doing this routinely will improve your voice control.
Vocal Warm Up Exercises: Part 3
Most people are not able to sing a perfect pitch without working at it first. There are very few singers that are born able to sing a perfect pitch. Again regularly using singing techniques can help improve in this area.
When you sing along to a sound on an instrument for example, there is a resonance when you match the note perfectly that is not audible when singing off-pitch. This is easy to notice when it happens.
Simply sing along to each note and listen for the perfect harmony of sound and practice getting to this pitch with each note over and over again so that your voice becomes conditioned.
Harmonizing with other singers is also a good exercise if possible. One singer can take low notes, another middle notes and the last singer the higher notes. Again when all three singers are on the correct pitch, a harmony will be heard.
Vocal Warm Up Exercises: Part 4
Once of the many parts that makes a good singing voice is volume. This is probably the easiest part to get the hang of as it comes naturally to most. During any particular piece of music the chances are you will need to increase or decrease the volume of your voice a number of times during it.
To determine what your natural volume is start by singing in your speaking voice at a regular volume. Then slowly increase your volume until you get to the stage where it is no longer comfortable to sing. At this point you have found your natural volume range.
Volume is easily increased by using your diaphragm to push your voice (breathing is a vitally important part to singing which we will cover separately). TO identify this exhale your breath quickly and you will feel the muscle under your ribcage.
The above outlines some simple vocal warm up exercises to help improve your singing technique. By practicing these on a regular basis, you will be able to not only find your ideal volume, range and pitch but add more strength to your voice.
Vocal Warm Up Exercises: Part 1
Ideally before you sing it is wise to warm up your vocal chords. This is especially true if you are a professional singer of some kind or take singing seriously or even if you are learning to sing online. Warming up the vocal chords helps protect injury to the pipes and enables you to sing in a stronger fashion.
These techniques may be simple but they will help!
Start by singing up and down the ‘C-chromatic’ scale. Take it slowly and do this half a step at a time. Though a simple exercise, this forces you to hit lots of notes helping smooth out the sound of your voice.
Yawning is another great exercise. Force yourself to yawn and open your mouth as wide as it will go comfortably. Now do the same and sing any note. After this sing another note but hold it, while it continues alter the pitch. Try doing this going from the bottom of the range up to the top.
If performing you should aim to spend a minimum of fifteen minutes warming up using techniques like those above.
Vocal Warm Up Exercises: Part 2
Increasing your vocal range can be easy if you use a musical instrument to help you. Simply play any particular note and sing along to it. Start low and work your way up or vice versa. Continue to hit each note until you cannot go any higher or lower. This is an easy way to help you work out exactly what your vocal range is.
It is a good idea to keep practicing singing along to each note until you can replicate them each perfectly with your voice. Doing this routinely will improve your voice control.
Vocal Warm Up Exercises: Part 3
Most people are not able to sing a perfect pitch without working at it first. There are very few singers that are born able to sing a perfect pitch. Again regularly using singing techniques can help improve in this area.
When you sing along to a sound on an instrument for example, there is a resonance when you match the note perfectly that is not audible when singing off-pitch. This is easy to notice when it happens.
Simply sing along to each note and listen for the perfect harmony of sound and practice getting to this pitch with each note over and over again so that your voice becomes conditioned.
Harmonizing with other singers is also a good exercise if possible. One singer can take low notes, another middle notes and the last singer the higher notes. Again when all three singers are on the correct pitch, a harmony will be heard.
Vocal Warm Up Exercises: Part 4
Once of the many parts that makes a good singing voice is volume. This is probably the easiest part to get the hang of as it comes naturally to most. During any particular piece of music the chances are you will need to increase or decrease the volume of your voice a number of times during it.
To determine what your natural volume is start by singing in your speaking voice at a regular volume. Then slowly increase your volume until you get to the stage where it is no longer comfortable to sing. At this point you have found your natural volume range.
Volume is easily increased by using your diaphragm to push your voice (breathing is a vitally important part to singing which we will cover separately). TO identify this exhale your breath quickly and you will feel the muscle under your ribcage.
The above outlines some simple vocal warm up exercises to help improve your singing technique. By practicing these on a regular basis, you will be able to not only find your ideal volume, range and pitch but add more strength to your voice.