02 Vocal Warmups
In this lesson, we’ll talk about:
- Why warming up the voice is imperative
- How to warm up the voice on a Sunday morning
- The importance of a slow warmup for vocal stamina and longevity
- The importance of stretching out the entire range
- Exactly what to do to achieve the best results in your voice!
Make sure to download and use the Sunday morning warmup I’ve created for you!
Have you ever had trouble with your voice “warming up”? I just went through the warm up exercise (tried not to put too much pressure on my voice like you said,), couldn’t produce many of the sounds throughout the exercise, and my voice didn’t feel very warmed up by the end. Why would this be?
Hey! Does it happen every time you warm up? If yes, that’s an issue for sure—but if it was just on one day (or every once in awhile), it probably is just a case of your voice being tired or fighting a bit of inflammation/sickness!
I am having a hard time making the Nay sound! Any tips?
And also the No sound, lol!
Hey! It may be that you’re not getting enough pharyngeal resonance on your “N” consonant — make sure there’s a nice resonance buzz in the nose as you start each pitch on the “N”. But, if you’re still having trouble with it, try replacing with an “M” — MAY/MO in the exercises instead of NAY/NO.
Here’s a clip where I explain the NAY sound in my “Master Your Voice” course — this may give you some tips to try! https://theworshipvocalist.com/nay-wah-octave-scale-exercise-demo/ And here’s one for NO — https://theworshipvocalist.com/no-no-no-long-scale-exercise-demo/
Hope that helps! 🙂
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I have been singing solos at church for about 10 years now, but I am still pretty new to singing as a part of our worship team. (I started late in 2018)
And it seems like every single Sunday morning I have had a major battle with my voice cracking.
But today I did this warm up and didn’t have ANY issue!!! I’m so surprised at what a difference it already made!!!
Incredible!! Warming up does SO much for the voice! Thanks for sharing! 😀
I am the Pastor’s wife of a small church plant. Meaning I double of worship leader and adult Sunday School teacher. Our schedule is 45 min of music practice, 45 Sunday school, 15 minute break, then our worship service.
Obviously I would need to warm up before practice. My question whether a second warm up would be needed before the worship service since I will using my voice to teach Sunday school. Is continuing to speak enough to keep it warmed up?
Great question — no, you definitely do not need another full warmup, the voice will stay warmed up as you continue to use it for Sunday school. The best thing you can do is to take a short break — even a 5-minute vocal rest right before the worship service (as the voice functions best when we give it a few minutes of rest after using it for speaking or singing for awhile!), then just a few lip roll slides to get the voice feeling out the whole range again!
Thank you so much,i will revist it again
Hi,thanks again.As i progress on the Nay and No long scales i noticed the notes get higher and i transit to my head voice and sing the scale in that register.It happens to on some scales where i have to transit to other registers as the scale moves up or down .Wanted to be sure if am on track.Thank you
Yes, that is normal and natural for the resonance to shift and tilt into head voice as you move up the scales. I believe you have gone through the “Resonance” lessons in “Master Your Voice”, so I would suggest you review those lessons and you can apply the same principles of resonance here!