The document provides vocal warm up exercises for singers. It explains that warming up is important for vocal health as it increases blood flow, improves technique, and prevents strain and injury. Exercises included are breathing with the diaphragm while lying down, lip trills, humming, ng-ah pitches, and scales. These exercises help with intonation, breath control, and developing a clear tone throughout the vocal range. The document emphasizes that warm ups should be done before practice sessions and performances.

1. Vocal Warm Up
Exercises
With Hanna Engel

2. Why is Warming Up
Important?
 Good For Vocal Health
 Helps you work on and improve
technique
 Increases blood flow and
temperature to breathing
mechanism
 Prevents vocal strain and injury

3. Breathing Exercise
 Lie with your back on the ground
 Take deep breaths, feeling your stomach expand
 Exhale slowly on a „shhh‟ sound until you are completely out of air
 This is “breathing with your
diaphragm”

4. Lip Trills
 Relax your face and lips
completely
 Breathe in with your
diaphragm
 Expel air through your lips
making a „brbrbr‟ sound
 Do this freely throughout your
range going from high to low
then low to high

5. Humming Warm Up
 Hum the following exercise
 Keep your soft palette high, creating space
 Do NOT press the sound
 Continue exercise through your comfortable range

6. Ng-Ah Pitched Warm Up
 Assume correct singing posture
 Hold syllable „nnng‟ then release to a and and
continue down the scale (below)
 Take this exercise through your comfortable
range
 Helps create a clear, focused tone and stretch
your range

7. Scale Warm Up
 Sing on syllables „mee-yo‟ for this exercise in the pattern
below
 Take it up and down your range
 Modify the vowel to a more open, taller sound as you go higher
 Helps with:
 Intonation
 Breath control
 Tone quality

8. Remember…
 Warming up is important!
 Keeps you from damaging your voice
 Always warm up before a practice session or a concert
THANKS FOR WATCHING, HAPPY
SINGING!

9. Sources
 Beatty, Chris. "5 Good Reasons to Warm-Up Your Voice
Before Your Sing 3." Ask the Vocal Coach. Ask The Vocal
Coach, 2013. Web. 19 Nov. 2013.
 Cleaveland Clinic Foundation. "Diaphragmatic Breathing."
Diaphragmatic Breathing. Cleaveland Clinic, 2013. Web. 19
Nov. 2013.
 Mathew, Aaron. "Lip-trill." Your Personal Singing Guide.
Your-personal-singing-guide, 2013. Web. 19 Nov. 2013.
 Mayer, Michael J. "Posture." Vocal Wisdom. Vocal-wisdom,
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