<p>please “GIVE ME SOME SINGING EXERCISES” sirs.</p>
<p>Sing CDEFGFEDC (the notes) repeatingly while saying the alphabet (repeat it until the end, when you sing the notes C G C for the last three letters of the alphabet), and when you’re done, move on to a different key, like C# (so it’d be C#D#E#F#G#F#E#D#C#), and keep on going until you can’t sing any higher (usually till B). Then descend back to C.</p>
<p>Er, I’m not sure what your range is, but I can tell you what my voice teacher makes me do. <em>gets out the giant notebook of vocal DOOM</em></p>
<p><a href=“solomonsmusic.net - This website is for sale! - solomonsmusic Resources and Information.”>solomonsmusic.net - This website is for sale! - solomonsmusic Resources and Information.; This will help you figure out the notes I’m talking about, because I’m giving them a numerical value as well as the letter name. Please note that I’m writing these in my range as a soprano–you might have to adjust for your voice part.</p>
<p>Breathing:
There’s the candle exercise. You take as deep a breath as you can (make sure you’re breathing in the right place) and huff it out like you’re blowing out a candle. I’m not fond of this one. >_>
Then there’s the counting exercise. It’s actually called the Farinelli technique. You breath in for a certain count (start on 7, go up to…however long you can go.), hold for the same count, and release for the same count. This is a fairly slow count, technically in seconds.</p>
<p>Actual singing:
Onset exercises are probably the easiest. Pick a note–my teacher usually starts me on F4–and sing the vowels “ee-ay-ah-ay-ee” on the note, then drop down a whole note. Keep going until you hit the fifth (in this case, B flat 3).
The thing my teacher makes me do to develop vibrato (since I don’t have it…heh) is somewhat harder to explain. Start on G4 (or whatever) and sing up three notes in triplet timing, then a fourth note as a quarter value. Do this three times on the vowels ee, ay, and ah, then go down the arpeggio on ah. I could probably make this an image if my explanation isn’t making sense.
For the third one, start on C4 (or whatever) on the vowel “ee”. Sing up to the fifth and come down. When you hit the starting note, sing on “ay” up to the fifth, and come back down. When you hit the starting note again, sing on “ah” up to the NINTH, and then come back down to the starting note. You’re not supposed to breath in here because you’re supposed to be going fairly fast through the notes.
I have several others I can give you, but it’d probably be easier to make an image of them and send it to you. If you want them, let me know.</p>
<p>I’m not a singer.
I never thought that singers put so much effort and woek into the whole thing. This is wierd.</p>
<p>Well, if you want to be a professional singer (or learn to sing well), then yes, you have to put a lot of work into it. There are muscles involved in singing that have to be developed (thought not as many) and a lot of work to control involuntary muscle reactions so that you don’t damage your vocal cords while singing.</p>
<p>Any warm up I’ve done with groups has mainly been singing various sounds/vowels, doing either a 3 or 4 note range up or down, or sometimes full fledged words being sung up and down either a full octave or a limited one. It’s weird though. even when I warm up, I usually have my same singing voice most of the day.</p>