Singing Warm-up: The Ultimate Pre-Recording Prep - Follow Along

1. Intro: Hey everyone, my name is Adam Michelle, singer-songwriter and vocal coach. And welcome to this warm-up. So why should you be watching this warm up and be learning singing for me? Well, I have a YouTube channel with over 450 thousand subscribers on YouTube. And I got there by showing people my tenure transformation of how I started with very little talent and eventually got to be able to sing quite well. So the reason why you should learn from me is because I've been there, I've struggled through the same struggles that you're going through. And I came out on the other side. So that's really, really important to know. Now as well, what we're gonna be doing here is a fun step-by-step warm-up. It's not going to be a boring piano scale that you're going to have to follow on your own. We're going to work together. I'm going to walk you through everything that I'm gonna be doing here. And I'm going to show you every single scale as an example. So my voice is going to be right there with you. You just follow along with me. We're gonna be making some weird noises, which is going to make it fun. It's going to make it interesting. So we're going to really follow together as we move through this exercise. Now, when we're moving through the exercises, I want you to be recording process as your project. So every class here is going to have a project that I want you to show in the discussion and project section. So what, what I wanted to do before you start this? So right now, prop up your smartphone over on this side so that you can video yourself and record yourself as you do these exercises. And that way you can review it afterwards and post it up for everybody else to see exactly what you're doing and how to improve and make improvements as you go through it. The idea here is for this to be a daily thing. So you come back, you do the warm up, you record yourself, you here exactly what's going wrong and you make improvements the next time you record, so on and so forth. So that's exactly what I want this course to be. If you want to find a little bit more resources on myMethod, on who I'm all about my other courses, please check out my website, www dot am vocal studios.com. Over there. I've got lots of resources, lots of courses, lots of lessons that I can run through with you live. And if you want to go there, I'm happy to work with you one-on-one. Go ahead and check that out without further ado. Let's jump in to today's warm up. 2. Pre recording Warm up: Hey everyone, I'm gonna be running you through a warm-up to get you ready for singing the studio, laying down the next track, or just working with GarageBand at home or in a studio, whatever it might be, this is going to get you prepped for exactly what you need to be able to be performance ready for, heading into that, in front of that Mike, and being able to sing your best possible performance. So without further ado, let's jump straight into the very first exercise. This is going to be a follow along. So I'm not gonna talk much in the exercises. We're just going to run through it together. 3. EE slide: Alright, so the process and the thought behind this warm up is going to be starting us off, no matter where you're at. Very, very slowly, very lightly into the voice and diving in deeper and deeper as we move through the warm-up. So we're gonna be starting with a very soft E slide. So follow me the two keys here that I want you to make sure that you're not doing is going loud. So go as quiet as possible, try to make it that it's almost inaudible for the recording that you're making right now. Tried to make it that you can't hear. Like imagine you're trying to avoid having other people hear you. Then the other thing is to make it as non-binary as possible. So as little sound in with the actual vocal sound with it. So let's jump straight in here. We're gonna go smile while you do it. Maybe go nice and slow. Maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe. My voice clipped out there for a second, didn't want to push or forced through it. So I just kinda let it ride out and that's part of the beginning of the warm-up. See what your voice is going to give you. It may give you less or more than it's giving me. But you wanted to just try to not push her force any of this? Just keep it super soft. I generally, generally recommend anybody who's doing this warm-up, try to nudge it into one or two semitones pass where it's absolutely easy. And tried to find ease into those. That's where it's cutting now for me. No, not wanting to go there. So we're gonna come back down. Listening it. That's alright. Keep going. Keep on cutting out on the top. So not going to push it, I'm not going to force it. But if it just doesn't want to go, it doesn't want to go. I want to go down. Again, the downward. Don't make any sound. There. We go. And checking it, the volume, I think I'm going a little too loud. Also at the bottom. Great job. 4. Straw 5th Slide: Alright, so next we're going to do one of my favorite exercises to do to get the voice warmed up in a shorter period of time as possible. And that is the straw exercise. If you don't have a straw quickly run and go grab one. They're super cheap. You can go grab them from grocery store. The thinner the better. So let's run through a slide scale that we're gonna do. We're gonna do fifths here, we're gonna go. Now, unlike the other exercise, we're going to try to go quite into the forte of the voice. So we're going to try to go quite loud as we do this. Try to keep the throne nice and relaxed. We want to use the abdominals for this. I just wanted to note something that my voice is doing is that little vibrato at the top. It's not actually on purpose. It's just a little bit of instability actually in my voice. So it's to tell you that I'm not doing that on purpose and if you don't have that, That's better. I'm going to try to stabilize it, but I'm not going to do with any force. I tried to just ride through any blockages or stuff like that. Also, instead of clearing your throat, it's much better to try to sniff twice and then swallow. So I could have gotten too clear on my throat, but that actually is going to cause damage over time and use of the voice like that. We want to try to do a non vocalized clearing of the throat. So a non vocalized clearing your throat. Sniff twice. Swallow down any sort of mucus that's built up on the vocal chords will be swallowed down. If there's no real clearing of the throat. What that might tell you is that what you've got on the chords is not mucus, but it is actually some swelling going on the chords that the body is telling you is actually flame, but it's not flat, but it's just tissue hanging out there. The eye that tend do that. Try to ride straight through any sort of clicks and bridges on or sorry, clicks and pops in the voice. Don't push. Every notice that things are getting a little bit tight. Try to move your head around, keep it loose. And subsidized. Bending this draw makes moving your head a little bit easier. Great job. 5. Bub 5 tone: In the next exercise, we're going to be doing a book. When we do this exercise, we want to try to hold onto the continent for as long as possible. So instead of going baba, baba, we want to go. But, but, but, but let's do it. But boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. But boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. Try to think of it as being very explosive, but really popping that sound off the lips. Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, little flat on that top note. Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop Bob. But boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. Great job. 6. Song Pratice: So if you followed all of the previous steps to the warm-up, now you are ready to start singing the song and just prep it before you actually hop in front of the mic and start singing for the recording. So this is the last step to get you ready for the pre-recording. In order to avoid copyright issues, I'm just going to be using my own, my own song so that it's obviously not copyright infringement. So let's do it. I'll show you how I go about it. First, I would start a little softer. Trust in me If you let me go to tie, just gave me a chance to show Yossi, right? I love will only grow. So I'm starting soft. Many thoughts to share, harder to breathe. Please learn me. For a wanna sing him to the world with data. I'll be moving boomerang. I'll come right back to you. I'll be writing your writing all fly right back to you. I'll be here. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. This way you're kinda building into that, building up momentum, getting into it. Now I'm starting to go a little bit fuller. Can give me. And that's okay because I'm only going to leave you for a couple days. I wanted no, never want to run away. Totally forgot my own words. Even though I know it's hard to understand. So again, I'm only to you. Let me be there, man. I'm sending up because, you know, deep down I can live in and do what I say, making sure we're breathing. Baby, boom, boom. I'll come to you. I'll be your boomerang. All fly array bags. You you I'll be oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. I'm coming around them. Come in with the Flickr, your swing it around. I'm coming around. I'm coming in with a Flickr, your wrist. I'm going down. I'm coming back down. I'm come in with a yummy style mid swing it around. I'm coming back down. Come and knock down. With the Plaka, your service dummies me around. I'm coming back down how I'm comin where the non hobby me call me right back to you. Owe me only one. Only one. Only one. Only one, only one. I'll be coming right back. And it's as simple as that. We want to start off going a little bit softer into the voice, a little bit easier. And then you want to build up momentum. You want to build up volume, you want to build up intensity. When you feel like that's going really well and that's pretty much performance level. Then you're ready to hop in front of the mic, do recording. And I guarantee this will be a better recording than any of the ones that you've done before, a warm up. So check it out, give it a try. Let me know how it goes. Record your your process as you're doing this, and then send us the final recording in the project section, it'd be really cool to be able to review how you guys did after this full warm-up. 7. Outro: Thank you so much for joining me on today's vocal warm-up. I hope you feel loose. I hope you feel limber. Hope your throat is feeling nice and easy and smooth, and you're able to sing easier than you ever could. Go ahead, go and sing a few songs, sing what you normally would have difficulty singing, and see if it just gets a little bit easier. Most likely you're going to find that you're singing is gonna be a lot smoother, a lot easier, a lot more accurate from after the exercises, from before the exercises. As always, please be sure to check out my website, www dot m vocal studios.com. That's where you're going to get live access to me through my subscription, through my private one-on-one lessons, whatever you prefer. You can definitely go there and find out more details on me and what I do outside of Skillshare. And speaking of which on Skillshare, we've got lots of these warm-up routines. So please feel free to go through my profile, find all of my Skillshare warm-ups, run through them daily. Pick and choose whichever one you want to work on. Let's say one day you want to work on the mix. One day you want to work on a little bit more head voice. Feel free to mix and match, find what works for you. So without further ado, that's the end of this course. I really appreciate you joining me along for the ride. Please make sure to upload your project to the project section so that other people can follow along, see your progress over time, and see how things improve. Because this really will make a big difference over the long term.