Vocal Exercises

Vocal Exercises - The Top 10 Vocal Exercises
Singing is probably one of the many talents that a lot of people feel they can easily develop.
Sometimes, the only encouragement one often needs is a microphone, a small nudge towards the
stage of a karaoke place and the discovery that you can actually carry a tune suddenly hits you.
The next thing you might want to learn to do now is how to improve that singing voice you just
discovered you have and one of the things you may need to do is to learn a few vocal exercises
to do just that.
There are a number of exercises you can do to help develop your vocal chords and to help you
either improve your singing voice or warm it up for use. Here are some vocal exercises that you
can try:
1. Try to sing a single note then hold that note or prolong it for as long as it is possible
without running out of breath.
2. Redo the previous exercise of singing a single note again but instead of singing one note,
try it this time with the whole do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do scale one by one.
3. Sing the same exercise only this time, instead of using the doremi scale, use vowels. This
will help you improve on how you open your mouth and how you emphasize your vowels
as you sing.
4. Another exercise that you can use to prepare yourself for singing is to recite the entire
vowel in one note.
5. One of the most effective and well known ways to train your voice is by practicing scales.
You can practice scales by first finding out what your range is. Range can be anything
from tenor to soprano. Once you know your range, use a piano or a keyboard and go up
and down the doremi scale with a vowel sound, slowly increasing the pitch after each
pass.
6. When doing scales, try to do it in short notes or in staccato and with the use of long notes
as well.
7. You might think that tongue twisters are childish or dumb but these silly rhymes can
actually help you improve your singing. Use tongue twisters to help loosen your tongue
as well as your vocal chords.
8. An alternative to the usual one vowel or sound scale is one where you use “me, may, my,
mow, moo” in one note then slowly going up the scale with this same set of sounds. The

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next thing you will need to do is to change the “m” in the set with another consonant after
three tries.
9. One of the important things that you need to do when vocalizing is to do breathing
exercises. Breathing the wrong way will not help improve your voice so you will need to
learn proper breathing exercises and techniques as well. One breathing exercise you can
use teaches you how to use your diaphragm. You simply say “shh” with your finger
across your lip and let your breath out this way until you are out of breath. Do this a few
times.
10. Another breathing exercise that can help you with your singing or that can be done along
with other vocal exercises involves breathing in for 20 seconds and breathing out for 20
seconds after the 20-second mark for breathing in is reached.
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