Think if you will of a game of tennis. If you don’t warm up before the game, initially you might not notice anything wrong. However as you start to stretch for shots, move faster, volley harder, you begin to realise that there are muscles working beyond their comfort zone. By this time, it’s too late. The muscles have been strained, stretching too much too soon, and you know that walking the next morning might be a slight issue!
The same is true of singing. At first you may not notice the damage that is being done to your voice by not warming up. However as you begin to push yourself, that’s when you feel it and by the time you feel it, it’s often too late.
As with warming up your body for sports, warming up the voice must be done in stages, each of which has specific benefits for us in terms of warming up, and of general vocal stamina. This post is the result of a request from a customer for us to unpack the content on the Musicademy Essential Vocal Warm up CD. We’ll look at the different types of warm up exercise used and what they do for the voice. Click on “Read more” to read more!
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