First up I drink loads of water! If we are dehydrated even if we warm up we could still damage the voice. So I start drinking 3 hours before work, and get 32oz on board before I do anything, and keep drinking throughout the day,
I start out with a full body physical warm up to relax and get my breath going (a work out with a cool down if I can, but I have a sixth month old sooooo... mostly just 5 mins of stretching at the mo! Ha ha! Focusing on releasing my diaphram.
Then some gentle sirens to get the voice slowly warmed up. Through the full range, and then slowing down and blowing less air at the cracks to smooth them out.
Then work on my different resonators and vocal qualities. This is something that may be different to a regular singing warmup. If we are doing different character voices we may want to access different parts of our voice. The Chest voice, The Mask, The Head, Lower larynxs, Vocal Fry etc, so just Maaaaaaaing or vvvvaaaaaaing or jjjjjaaaaaaaaaring with those qualities can help open them up!
Lastly some tongue twisters to get the articulators going! I sometimes do this in diffrent accents if I know I've got a tough accent day ahead!
And then I'M OFF!!!!! WAHOO!!!!
Do we think a 'Vocal Warm Up' article would be good to add to the list?
I didn't think to note the water bit because I'm already in the habit of drinking lots of water, but that's actually great to point out 😂 And yeah warming up for different types of voices is good to note too! Not yet something I actively think about since I've only gotten as far as recording samples with my one voice type HAHAHA
And oooh yes, tongue twisters! Do you have favorites??? I'd love to see that in an article 😜 along with the rest of your vocal warm up tips!
How do you all warm up? I'm just curious because I still do vocal warm-ups like I'm about to sing 😄 Physical exercises for the face, and then my go-to tracks which are the first 10 exercises of this album: https://open.spotify.com/album/0MytYN6rxUewaFQmHTWjJv?si=ZqUGzknpQCqk2xqSirZ5Ow