Singing Warm-up: Super High Notes - Follow Along

1. Intro: Hey everyone, Adam is Shani or singer-songwriter in vocal coach. And welcome to today's warm up. What we're gonna be going through is a fun, engaging warm up altogether. And why should you be listening to me? Well, I'm a vocal coach with a YouTube channel with over 450 thousand subscribers on there. And I got there by showing people a tenure transformation of how I started with very little to no natural talent. And I was able to develop a good voice. Now, that shows that I've been there. I am at your point of struggle. I'm through the process, I worked through everything, every possible mistake that could have been there. And so I can be there with you and show you exactly how to improve from where you're at. So any beginner will work well with me and the intermediate singer will work well with me. Any advanced singer, because I've moved through all of those stages. So feel free to jump in and join this course. What we're gonna be doing is running through specific exercises that are going to work out different parts of your voice. And as you do this, I want you to record the process. I wanted to set up your smartphone right now before you've even started the course, I want you to set up your smartphone, press record and record the whole video of you running through all the exercises. What this is going to do is two things. Number one, it's going to be able to help you to notice any sort of points where you're making mistakes. Then it's also going to help you find and share that process with everyone else in the course. By doing that, you'll be able to track your progress over time, which is an extremely valuable piece of being able to improve. Because often we don't see changes when we look at it day to day. But when we look back at months ago and we see, oh wow, I really got a lot better from where it was there. We start to see that there is real incremental progress happening, which is absolutely essential. If you're ever interested in finding more resources or reaching out to me personally, please check out my website, www dot am vocal studios.com. Over there. You can find private lessons with me. You can find group lessons with me. You can find my courses. All that stuff is over there. Tons of resources, blog articles, that type of stuff. So go ahead and check that out as well. Now, without further ado, let's jump straight into the vocal warm-up. These exercises that are going to get you singing better today. 2. Intro super high notes: All right, everyone. So today I'm going to be warming you guys up into your higher range. This includes falsetto, head voice, Flajolet, and maybe even some whistle tones if we're able to get you up into there. So we're gonna be doing a lot of different exercises that will encourage your voice to probably go higher than you ever could before. What I recommend doing is trying to do everything super light and easy. Don't push or force anything. Think very low volume as you're doing a lot of these things. And try not to increase in volume as you go higher. Most we're going to try to do these straight through so that you guys can follow along with it daily and you don't have any interruptions in the middle. And I'm trying to get all the ideas that I have in my head on this topic out before I even start. So then that way you're not waiting in the middle for me to finish. That idea. Also, as we go up higher, what we're going to notice is that our voice is going to shift from more of a breathy, more open sort of feeling and the throat to a little bit more of a squeezed feeling. But it should be squeezed feeling in terms of pressure, not so much in terms of feeling a blockage. So if you're feeling a blockage in the throat, that's not correct, it shouldn't be that intense. And we're going to explore as high as the voice will go and try to take you guys all the way through into, hopefully up to the seventh octave. We'll see. Yeah, let's start off with the first exercise. 3. Hoo Exercise: First exercise is just gonna be a simple who exercise. Here we're going to really try to emphasize the arenas of the voice. We're going in falsetto. So it should be nice, light and easy. Try to round out the lips. Dead pan. I'm topping out there. Feel free to keep going. Apologies. I'll jump back in here. 4. Woah Exercise: Good. Now we're gonna go. And again here we're doing everything super light again. Oh, oh, oh, oh. The goal here is to really narrow down the lips every single time we want to get a warm feeling. You're trying to squeak out those top notes. Squeaky or you get the better. It is. Too high for me. I'll keep going. Right now. I'm going to jump back in. Well, we won't try to keep it and have voiced the bottom. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. 5. Inhalation Phonation: Alright, so this next exercise is what we call reverse phonation. This is basically where we found it in the opposite direction. So phonation is the sound that we're making, the vocal cords being set into vibration. And we're going to be doing that, getting them to vibrate in the opposite direction. So normally we exhale for regular foundation. Now for inhalation, phonation, we're going to be inhaling. So what I want you to guys to do is first just get a feel for this. Can you all just suck in and just go and just try to any node, it doesn't have to be the note that I just hit. Any note will work. Any node that you can do. Can you just hold that for a bit? Next one I want you to do is try to slide with that sound. So we're gonna go and we're going to try to go as high as we can. Get, didn't quite go to the C6 there. Let's see if we can excuse me. If we can go to the C6 and above. Try not to inhale any of your saliva. That's not good. Let's do that again. Yeah, So I'm around the D-Sharp six there. Now the great thing is anything that you can do on the inhale, you will eventually be able to do on the exhale. So if I tried to do that on the exhale now, now if I tried to slide up, they're not wanting to connect there. And I did say eventually because not always is it going to be the first time that you attempted. But let's try to go back. Reverse foundation again. I'm getting around the C-sharp x out. So it's a little bit strained. But doing this for a little bit will help to get some of those higher notes and it may even go a little bit higher for you guys. So let's do that a couple more times. Sliding right up into our highest range that our inhalation phonation will allow us to go. Okay. Wasn't allowing me to go so high. Let's try that again. Hey guys, Just be fun to play around with and also try to play around with different mouth shapes, different body positions. So sometimes holding yourself upright is not going to give you the best, the best sort of connection into this sort of sound. Kinda bending forward can help without necessarily pulling the neck for it. But just kinda like leaning forward as you're doing this can help. And so now what I want to try to do is do that one more time. We're going to try to inhale on the way up and then exhale on the way down. So we're going to go. So there's that point where I turned over. So we want to try to do that a couple of times. Okay. So I'm not getting good connection there. So you could stop, restart. You might find that your voice does that on you. That's perfectly fine. It just means that it needs a reset. Take a deep breath and try again. Two more times. On the way down, I'm going on an exhale. Last one, inhale on the way up. Exhale it on the way down. So that's an exercise to play around with inhalation phonation, which might help you access notes that you otherwise wouldn't have been able to access. 6. EE slide: Now we're gonna do some ie slides. So we're gonna go try to be really quiet, really light with this. There we go. To high. Alright, well I'm not gonna get the C6, but you guys go back down. I'll jump back in. Again. Great job. 7. Outro: Thank you so much for joining me on today's vocal warm-up. Hope you're feeling nice, loose, relaxed, released. Check it out. See, sing a song right now that normally would be difficult for you to sing. And try to see if it just gets a little bit easier. Every time you do these vocal warm-ups, every singing is going to become much, much easier over time. But this is a long haul process, so it's not something that's going to happen overnight. But you got to keep up with that process. And as always, if you want to get face-to-face time with me, I'm happy to do that. Check out my website, www dot am vocal studios.com over there. You can get group lessons with me, private lessons with me, courses of mine, check that all out. It's all listed there. And if you are interested in seeing other vocal warm-ups that I'm doing on Skillshare. I've got a ton up on Skillshare. So please check out my Skillshare profile, search through the list of all the different warm-ups. Or you can search in the search tab singing. And if you scroll down, my singing warm-ups will be there. Definitely go check out my other warm-ups without further ado. I'll see you guys in the next warm-up.