The Vocal Warm Up to Do Once You're Past the Basics (Follow Along)

🎯 FREE VOCAL ASSESSMENT What's really holding your voice back? Find out in 2 minutes → https://kate-wand.com/quiz/?utm_sourc... 🎧 PRO VOICE ANALYSIS It's hard to tell on your own if you're doing these exercises right. Send me a recording and you'll get two videos back: exactly what I hear, and exercises built for your voice → https://kate-wand.com/voice-analysis/... 🎹 1:1 COACHING Weekly live lessons with me and a plan built around what your voice needs (spots are limited) → https://kate-wand.com/coaching/?utm_s... Gear I use → https://a.co/d/0cPklJW2 The Vocal Techniques playlist I mention at the start →    • Vocal Techniques   WHO THIS IS FOR This one's for singers who already have the basics and want a warm-up that goes further. Press play and sing with me through 10 exercises, from a simple hum, through the passaggio and up into head voice, with very little talking. By the end you should feel stretched out and ready to sing, whether you're about to rehearse, record or go do a gig. Newer to singing? Start with my gentler four-exercise warm-up →    • The Vocal Warmup You'll Actually Use Every...   Women start on middle C and men on C3, and I call out where to start for both as we go. These are general exercises, so only do them in a way that feels good in your voice. COMMON QUESTIONS What note do I start on? Middle C if you're a woman, the C below it (C3) if you're a man. Men follow along an octave lower, and I give both starting notes as we go. What if an exercise goes too high or too low for me? Skip it, or only take it as far as it feels good. These are general exercises and they won't all fit your range (I talk about that at 1:54). If you want exercises built around your own voice, that's what a Pro Voice Analysis is for. The link's at the top and in the pinned comment. Where is my passaggio? For a lot of women it's somewhere between A4 and C5. Men vary more with voice type, but for many baritones with tenor tendencies it's around A3 to C4. A really deep bass voice sits a little lower, and your own voice may not match either range exactly. That's at 5:12. What should I focus on through the passaggio? The resonant space. Aim the sound between your eyebrows and forehead as you climb, and let it feel quieter inside your head. Breathe in with a half yawn first so your soft palate lifts. Why does my voice feel lighter on the way back down? You're bringing some of your head voice quality down into the upper chest voice. That's really good for developing your mixed voice, so keep the half yawn and the head resonance as you come down. What's the staccato exercise for? Agility and pitch. Hear each note clearly in your head before you sing it, then keep every "ba" short and clean. Should the high exercises feel big? No. Just above the passaggio, don't be afraid of letting it be small. You're after precision there. How often should I do this warm-up? Any time before you rehearse, record or perform. It also works as a daily practice: done consistently, it tones and aligns your voice a little at a time. Should my voice feel tired afterwards? Not at all. You shouldn't feel any strain or vocal fatigue, during the exercises or after them. If you do, back off and stick to the ones that feel comfortable. Where are the explanations? This one's mostly singing. If you want the why behind the exercises, my Vocal Techniques playlist is linked at the top. WATCH NEXT The Vocal Warm Up That's Like Yoga For Your Voice    • The Vocal Warm Up That's Like Yoga For You...   If Your Voice Cracks or Breaks WATCH THIS - Discover The Passaggio    • If Your Voice Cracks or Breaks WATCH THIS ...   Chest Voice or Mixed Voice? Here's the Difference    • Chest Voice or Mixed Voice? Here's the Dif...   More of my warm-ups, in one playlist    • Vocal Warm-Ups   ABOUT KATE Classically trained at the Royal Conservatory of Music, with voice studies at McGill and more than twenty years performing across opera, bands and solo work. I coach singers one to one and through Pro Voice Analysis, and I teach the way I diagnose: find the specific coordination that's missing, then train it. More info at → https://kate-wand.com/ #VocalWarmUp #VocalExercises #SingingTips 0:00 Exercise 1: Hum to Place Your Voice 1:02 Exercise 2: Up and Down a Fifth on "Me" 2:29 Exercise 3: Chest Voice Release on "Z" 3:25 Exercise 4: Five Notes Up on "Moo" 4:12 Exercise 5: 1-5-4-3-2-1 on "Yaw" 5:12 Exercise 6: Through the Passaggio on "Ma" 8:22 Exercise 7: Octave Arpeggio on "Yaw" 10:57 Exercise 8: Staccato "Ba" for Agility and Pitch 13:38 Exercise 9: Small and Precise Above the Passaggio 15:44 Exercise 10: "Me" Moving Up the Scale 17:06 Stretched Out and Ready to Sing