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Who Do Vocal Warm Ups?
In this episode, world renowned vocal coach Kevin Richards explains the purpose and reasons why singers should always do a warm up before singing and a warm down after singing.
The muscles of the voice are no different than other muscles in your body in respect to how they stretch and are flexible in their movement. A muscle needs stretching to make it flexible or loose to avoid injury. As we "warm" the muscle, we send blood directly into which makes the muscle thinner and more flexible.
Speaking alone doesn't warm up your voice because the vocal range of speech is much smaller than that for singing; therefore the muscles on the larynx must be stretched so they can be flexible enough to adduct your vocal folds for higher pitches.
There is also a psychological effect as well. When we train our voices we are telling our brains that when we "do this" physical activity the body needs to do certain coordinations and breathe a certain way. The warm up signals the brain it is about to do that activity.
Warm ups also allow a singer to find out how their voice is behaving that day. Each day our voices are slightly different stages of "readiness". Some days our voices don't seem to want to work at all, some days it takes some work to get it to do what you want, and some days your voice just seems to do whatever you want it to do. A warm up help you find out which one of these "moods" your voice is in that day. It will tell you what areas of your singing range needs more attention and what is just fine.
After singing, our voices are coming down from a hyper state of activity - meaning they are very hot and probably a little swollen from all those millions or vibrations it just did when you sang. Bringing the vocal cords slowly back down to a more normal state of operation helps them avoid injury and settling in with that swelling. Without a proper cool down your voice could wake up the next day unable to sing at all.
Vocal warm ups are an essential part of maintaining a healthy singing voice.
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VIDEO PLAYLISTS:
Vocal Warm Ups: bit.ly/1z3VaoS
Performance Tips: bit.ly/1qZRPnU
Fixing Vocal Breaks: bit.ly/1z3VgwF
Bridging to Head Voice: bit.ly/13y2YSW
Breath Support: bit.ly/1BYpgvc
Head Voice Techniques: bit.ly/1BYpimF
Advanced Vocal Technique: bit.ly/1sF7gTz
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Who Do Vocal Warm Ups?
In this episode, world renowned vocal coach Kevin Richards explains the purpose and reasons why singers should always do a warm up before singing and a warm down after singing.
The muscles of the voice are no different than other muscles in your body in respect to how they stretch and are flexible in their movement. A muscle needs stretching to make it flexible or loose to avoid injury. As we "warm" the muscle, we send blood directly into which makes the muscle thinner and more flexible.
Speaking alone doesn't warm up your voice because the vocal range of speech is much smaller than that for singing; therefore the muscles on the larynx must be stretched so they can be flexible enough to adduct your vocal folds for higher pitches.
There is also a psychological effect as well. When we train our voices we are telling our brains that when we "do this" physical activity the body needs to do certain coordinations and breathe a certain way. The warm up signals the brain it is about to do that activity.
Warm ups also allow a singer to find out how their voice is behaving that day. Each day our voices are slightly different stages of "readiness". Some days our voices don't seem to want to work at all, some days it takes some work to get it to do what you want, and some days your voice just seems to do whatever you want it to do. A warm up help you find out which one of these "moods" your voice is in that day. It will tell you what areas of your singing range needs more attention and what is just fine.
After singing, our voices are coming down from a hyper state of activity - meaning they are very hot and probably a little swollen from all those millions or vibrations it just did when you sang. Bringing the vocal cords slowly back down to a more normal state of operation helps them avoid injury and settling in with that swelling. Without a proper cool down your voice could wake up the next day unable to sing at all.
Vocal warm ups are an essential part of maintaining a healthy singing voice.
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VIDEO PLAYLISTS:
Vocal Warm Ups: bit.ly/1z3VaoS
Performance Tips: bit.ly/1qZRPnU
Fixing Vocal Breaks: bit.ly/1z3VgwF
Bridging to Head Voice: bit.ly/13y2YSW
Breath Support: bit.ly/1BYpgvc
Head Voice Techniques: bit.ly/1BYpimF
Advanced Vocal Technique: bit.ly/1sF7gTz
FOLLOW ME:
On Facebook: tinyurl.com/mjfrgvx
On Twitter: twitter.com/RocktheStageNYC
On Vimeo: vimeo.com/kevinrichards
On Google+ plus.google.com/+RocktheStageNYC
BUY MY VOCAL COURSES:
thevoxshop.com
TAKE LESSONS WITH ME!:
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