15 minute Exercise
This is a wonderful warm-up , when you are pressed for time.
1. Yawn while saying dumb
2. Flutter lips
3. Wag tongue while sticking it out
4. Stick Tongue in and out while saying AAAA
5. Sniff then hum up and down a scale , keep repeating
6. Light and bright Humming - up and down throughout your range - keep repeating
7. Stick tongue all the way out to bottom of chin and say AAA - do this several times
8. Baby cry (get this all the way into your nasal passages)
9. Hooting like and owl in the middle of your range
10. Siren sound with lips closed
11. Pull your tongue with tissue - up, down and to each side. (You are trying to get rid of the tension in the back of your tongue)
12. Hello How Are You - in chest voice not in your throat. At the bottom of your range.
13. Uh Huh in chest voice several times. Do it slowly
14. Open head (light head voice) with the syllable "who". Descending a five not scale
30 minute Exercise
Bend over touch toes so that the gravity pulls on your cheeks, lips.
Let your back stretch into the hang
Come slowly up
Lean head to the left stretching the neck (drop right shoulder to increase the stretch)
Do the same on the right
Do the same stretching the head forward
Now tilt the head back
Flutter lips
Wag tongue
Stick tongue out saying long A
Tilt head back and stick tongue in and out saying Ah
Baby cry in the nasal passages
Sniff and count to five (Do this five or six times)
NG in the back of the throat . (Think of Kermit the Frog. Say ming and feel the ng - next time leave the "mi" off. Slide up and down scales while NG is engaged.
Yawn while saying dumb
Bright humming
Slowly trace back of the teeth with tongue in each direction
Do the same tracing the front of the teeth
Do the same with the outside of the lips
Do the same with the tongue sticking out
Pull tongue up, down and to each side. Do this with tissue.
Say AW with the back of the tongue down several times
Siren sound with mouth closed
Hoot in the middle of your range
Cooing to open up head register. Light and open sound like a dove
Vowel alignment - knee ah I oh u . Say this as if you were meditating. All in one tone of the voice. Direct it towards the cheekbones.
Sigh pulling air through.
Work on counting while sticking out diaphram, keeping it out . Do this in increments of five until you get to 20. Remember the diaphragm cannot collapse.
Quiet "mask" hum on the way to gig
