Transcripts
1. Intro: Hey everyone, I'm Michelle here, singer-songwriter
and vocal coach. And today I'm gonna be
doing a vocal warm-up. Welcome everyone. So why should you
be listening to me? There's tons of
voices out there. Why should you be listening
to this vocal coach? Well, I have 450 thousand
subscribers on YouTube. And I got there
by showing people how I went from 0 talent, sounding really bad to being
able to sing very well. And I did that through years. In the middle where I learned
all of the techniques there are out there and
I picked and chose what worked really well. So I can relate to
every beginner singer, intermediate singer and
advanced singer because I really worked through all of those stages and
all of those steps. So I can show you exactly what you need to
do to be able to start improving and making that difference for your voice. I've also had selected
the exercises that work. So we're not just gonna be doing random stuff that's not going to actually make any improvements. Everything that we're doing here is well thought out and tailored to be able to make the
improvements that are promised in the title
of this warm-up. Also, they're meant to be fun. They're meant to be engaging. So that's why I
didn't just throw on some piano scales on, up on Skillshare and
just let it run. I wanted to actually run
through it with you. So this is all follow along
where you really get to enjoy and have fun
through the process. A big part of this is
that I really want you to record the
process as well. This is going to be,
this course is project. So what am I to do is set up your smartphone right
here in the corner. And I wanted to hit the
record button before you start even the
first exercise, I want you to do two things
while you're doing this. Number one, it's going to show you if you're making
any mistakes so you can review it after
and you can see if there's any mistakes as you're
going through it. You compare it to what I'm doing versus what you're doing. Is there any mistake going on? But then also what is
going to give you is the ability to track
progress over time, which is absolutely essential to really see big improvements. Now, also we're
going to have to, after you're done
recording that, I wanted to upload it to the project section here that's going to share
with the community. You're gonna get feedback from other members of the community
and they're gonna be able to see exactly how you're doing it so that
they can also make adjustments and improvements to their way of doing
the vocal exercises. If you're interested of
getting face-time with me, please check out my website, www dot m vocal
studios.com. Over there. You can book private
lessons with me. You can book group
lessons with me. You can book courses with me. And all that stuff
is available there. We've got blog articles,
lots of details, lots of resources with
regards to singing. But without further ado, let's jump straight in to
today's vocal warm-up.
2. Falsetto Exercise: Okay, so now we'll move
into our falsetto exercise. Really want a personal lips
forward as we do this. I'll see how high can
bring this in each day. Kinda mark and track. What's the high note
that I'm hitting? Someone's getting a
little bit tighter, so I'll try it again. Right there. It's getting
stuck. Anymore airflow. There we go. Keep
that air flowing.
3. Self Massage: Another thing that
I'll do is I will find any tension spots in my jaw just by running my thumbs down the sides of my jaw
with medium pressure, pressing in for any tight
spots like right there. And it'll hurt when
you hit a spot. Let's go a lot of tension. This muscle, they're
strongest muscle in the body pound for pound. And it can be it can
wreak havoc on the voice. So if not taking care
of and not relaxed, you can make it
very hard to sing. Try to find those tensions spots where you find the
attention spot. Try to hold it for 15 seconds. 9101112131415. Jaw definitely feels looser. Now the thing that
can really help the personal massage or so
this is one I personally use. It's called Magic fly. It has two different
settings on it. Low and high. Low, I'll generally use for the muscles of the
front of the neck. So what I'll do is like this, almost like I'm shaving. I'll just run it down
the front of my neck, just going around
my larynx so we don't want to go over
the top of the larynx, we just want to go
over the sides. So that's where a lot
of the muscles sit. You can even go down
into the collarbone. Just get that
vibration to loosen up the muscles once and
down the collarbone. I'll jump it up to the next
setting. So high setting. That helps to loosen up
the muscle even more. Then I'll go back
to the low setting. Just hum. So now that I've shown you, just bring my chin back
to normal and then I'll just go on either
side of the larynx. Now. Now I'll use it sometimes
in the front of my face just to bring
my resonance for it. Use it up here on
the sinuses as well. Now I'll turn it up
to the high setting and I'll get in here
on the back muscle, the back of the neck muscles. And I'll just home as well. These are called the
suboccipital muscles. Now, they can often get tight, especially if we're sitting
forward head posture a lot. So we'll just have it running down those suboccipital muscles. Now some of you might find this to be a little
bit too much. And that's okay. You can stop right there. It's starting to make
me a little bit dizzy. So stop. We could just do a little
bit more in the front of the neck to just again, going slowly down the
sides of the neck. You can just press in
under the chin as well. For this one, you can go
on the higher setting. Okay? That's another thing you can do.
4. Song Application: Then what I would do is
start to incorporate some songs into what I'm doing. So I would do songs like, it's bad without you, my friend, about it. When I see you, again, just try to use as
much airflow as possible. If camera, phone where we began. So there it's starting
to get a little stifled. So I'll try to do it
again through this draw. Try it again. Alright, So then I'll try to do it. Hello. I'm getting a little bit
more released there, but it's still not where
I would want it to be. It's still not exactly
the most release, the most free is where
I want it to be. So then I would try something that's a little bit lower down, like blood in loves them but is very bad if
falls in love Zoom. But something in your
kit is just told me. My sum is now very buddy. Find some buddies, some Lei is, there's no telling
where love me. But something in my heart
keeps say, Hey, my eyes. Play is, is he here? I added my pow would arrange
for every girl to avid Shaw. Then every minute, every hour, heavy boy would
find what I found. Very buddy, find some bodies. There's no telling
where love may appear. But something you might keep. Say. My simply is, is he here? If I added my pow, how would it change for
every girl do average, heavy, heavy boy would
find what I've found. They knew everybody
loves buddies. And although my dream
was overdue, well, he married the way de que. Alright, so that lower
song is working, higher songs now
working as much. So what I would do is try to warm myself up
into those louder, higher parts of my range.
5. MUM: Alright, so now we're back. Let's try a mum here. Let's go. My mom, my mom, mom, mom, mom, my mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, my mom, my mom, mom, mom, mom, my mom, my mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, my mom, mom, mom, mom, my mom. Mom, mom, mom, mom, mom. Mm, mm mm mm mm mm mm mm
mm mm mm mm mm mm mm, mm, mm mm, mm mm mm mm, mm, mm, mm, mm mm, mm, mm, mm mm. Mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, my mom, mom, mom, mom. Now we're up to the
high C. So the key here is what I'm doing is I'm
keeping my larynx low, so I'm not going my mom, my mom. We don't want that. That's the larynx
rising more, Mom, mom. We don't want that. We want
to keep the learning slow, keep the vowel pure. Mom, mom, mom, mom,
mom, mom, mom. Sorry for hitting the
microphone. Again. Mom, mom, mom, mom,
mom, mom, mom. Keep that pure vowel through. You'll be able to take it
through your entire range. If you start to
change it in any way. Mama, mom? No good. Mm, mm, mm, not good either. Try to keep it the same. Whatever you started with, mm, mm should be where you end with the same sound bottom to top. So now my voice sounding
pretty good, pretty balanced. And I would take it
to some more songs. Now. I'm just trying to think. Alright, So just trying to find some non copyrighted songs. So we could do O, say, can you see that u is
off pitch? Try it again. Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early
light what so proudly, we hailed at the
twilight last gleaming, whose broad stripes and bright
stars through the peer. Find, oh, the pods we watched were so
gallantly streaming. And the bombs bursting. You gave proof through the night that flag
was still there. Oh, say does that
It's dogs bang gold. No way. Hey. Oh, no, no, oh, oh, alright. So still my voice is
feeling not quite a 100%. It could be the
day that it's off a little bit and it just
doesn't want to cooperate. Some days you'll get that. But overall, it's feeling much better
than when I started. Also something that could help. And obviously I'm not
going to do this live, but doing just a quick steam. So about ten minutes of steaming your vocal cords can
help to loosen them up, get them vibrating a little
bit more efficiently, which they're not
doing right now.
6. Warm Down: Now what I'm gonna do is take
you through a warm down. So this is something
that I would do to just kinda get my vocal cords
back to homeostasis. Now they've done an
intense warm-up, really gotten them
vibrating to their maximum. I want to get them
relaxing to the maximum. So what I would do is through a straw just starting from the top of my
range and sliding down. We want to try to think, not so much pressure
and not so much force, just kinda letting it be. If it wants to crack, wants
a break, let it do that. Again. This is not where we want it to sound pretty where we want it
to sound perfect. This is part of our
warm-up or warm down. This doesn't have
to sound gorgeous. And just kinda hanging out on your chest voice range can
help to warm down that area. Then I would also
do some on slides like this where you try to get as accurate of a
yawn as possible. Just really read
it, let it relax. Very good. Even
though we're yawning, try not to get your
tongue to retract. So the yawn naturally gets
the tongue to retract. You want to try to
keep it forward. You can kick-start
some real yawns that's going to help
to loosen up the jaw, loosen up the, all the
muscles around the larynx. That is just a little
bit of phlegm. So that kinda takes you through all of my
favorite exercises. At the moment. I mean, there's tons and tons
of exercises out there. But at the moment, this is what I would
do to warm up, get my voice up to speed. And then what I would
do to warm down, that warm-down has been
pretty consistent, so that doesn't
change that much. But the warm-up, again, I adjust based on where the circumstances of
my voice are that day. But for today, that's
kind of what is helping.
7. Outro: Thank you so much for joining me in today's vocal warm-up. How does your voice feel? Does it feel just a
little bit looser, a little bit easier,
the muscles less tense. Test it out. Go sing a song that normally would
be challenging for you. And see if it comes out
a little bit smoother. You're able to hit
those high notes with a little bit more ease. I guarantee there's going
to be some improvement. This has to be done daily. So please keep up with it as you're working through
it and you'll see that progress will happen over time if you stay
committed to the process. And as always, if
you want to get a little bit of
face-to-face time with me. I'm happy to do it. Check it out at my website, www dot am vocal studios.com. Over there you can book
private lessons with me, group lessons with me. You can get my courses, all the resources that I have over there are available to you. And if you want to get for free, all the rest of my
warm-ups on Skillshare, please check out my profile
here on Skillshare, I've got a list of tons of different warm-ups that
you can go through. And if you can't
find it over there, then go to the search bar, type in singing, and you'll find my warm-ups in the search bar. Just got to scroll down.
They're all there. So thank you so much for joining me and I'll see you
in the next one.