Warming up.

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Hey guys, I'm new to this forum and I have a question and maybe need some advice lol.

I'm not sure if I'm warming up correctly or doing enough.

This is how I warm up at the moment:

I do about 10 minutes of humming,
then about 15 minutes of lip trills and then do some sirens. From then I just sing lowly before I feel ready to do full singing.

The thing is, my voice feels really heavy a lot of the time. I drink a lot of honey tea and water and I eat the right food, but my voice never feels warmed up enough. Like I said, it feels heavy and I feel like there's a lot more that I should do.

For some reason whenever I do scales like "La La La" or "Oh Oh Oh" I kind of shout it, so I've avoided doing them. If I can control this, will they help me a lot?

Or, can anyone tell me how you warm their voice up or what more I can do to make it lighter and correctly warmed up?

Thanks.

JOhnlovemusic
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I do not suggest my voice students 'humm' as part of a warm up. 'Humming' is not 'typical humming'. To hum correctly you are singing a given vowel with the lips closed. This is strenuous. A warm up is intended to introduce oxygen, blood flow, and flexibilty in a measured methodical manner.

I would start with soft easy sounds within a perfect fifth range. Moving the voice up until you sense some strain. Then go lower and back to where you were. Relax for a bit and then extend your voice to the range of an octave, again moving up and down. You can work toward strain, but stop as soon as you feel it, go the other way, and then come back. While you are doing this be sure your body carriage is correct and try to be aware of your jaw - are you opening your jaw correctly? As you warm up your jaw will open a little wider as you warm up.

Then as you increase your warm up range add consonants and vowels making them more decisive as you progress in your warm up. (remember get your mouth conditioned slowly).

Take 1 to 2 minute breaks between exercises to allow the muscles to relax and get normal blood flow and oxygen. Stretch, relax, stretch, relax. Your warm-up should take about 20 minutes.

Warming up.

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