In this quick video, we're going to be doing a complete vocal warm up for new singers. So if you're new to singing, this will give you everything that you need to get started. But even if you're not new to singing, this is a wonderful way to brush up on your skills.
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What is the best vocal exercise for beginning singers to do to warm up their voice? Well, the answer is simple, but the exercise is not. The answer is anything that trills. So we've got a tongue trill and we've got a lip trill. Now, the reason why these are so foundational, especially amongst those that teach voice and music, is because they are excellent at balancing pressure. I'll say that slow for emphasis. They are excellent at balancing pressure. And that's something that singers across the board, whether they're completely new to singing or they're advanced, is something that we have a tendency to struggle with because we're trying to manage a very sophisticated process.
We want to activate diaphragm. We have to do that when we trail. So let's go ahead and try that right now. You can pick tongue trill if you notice that the lip trail is hard or vice versa. So you can go, I'll be doing the lip troll today. I tend to like that a little bit more. But notice, just watch your diaphragm. When you create that sound, it lifts by default, it lifts as a consequence of that sound that you are making. So it's a beautiful place to start. And the trill itself balances pressure, meaning you will not experience shifts between registration because the pressure will be nice and balanced. Usually when we experience a flip, it's because there's too much or too little pressure going from one register to the next. So you really don't experience that when you trill, which is why it's so foundational to start with. But it also teaches the cords how to concentrate the air flow effectively, sort of spinning it into this beautiful golden thread of sound. They have to work really hard in order to do that.
So let's just try this together. We're going to do just sort of like a bend of air and voice,whether you feel it or not, it's built into the exercise. It's the consequence of the sound. So as you're using movement to keep those sounds going, you're effectively teaching your chords how to create that concentration of air. Makes sound right. So our last bit is that it kind of pours or focuses the air into a nice combination head space I'll just call that tone.