Vocal Instrumental Studies Week 2 (04/11/15)

Week 2 Vocal Studies

This week in vocal studies we were shown a PowerPoint presentation on vocal warm ups. This week we  learned that as a vocalist you need too warm up you're voice or it can cause serious damage to you're vocal cords or even throat, it can also lead to nods or a strained voice. We also learned if you warm up you're voice as a vocalist you can sing with more control, you can wider you're vocal range for example: pitch and being able to control on breathing whilst singing a song. Also if warming up you need to make sure you have a range of exercises so you can warm up you're range, tone and breathe control. some vocal exercises you can use is the C Major scales( Do,Re,Mi,Fa,So,La,Ti,Do) scales,counting,and breathing exercises.

We also learned that if you stretch you're body it helps you feel relaxed and it helps with you're posture. Articulation exercises are where you practice you're pronunciation, this is where you exercise your lips, teeth and tongue; So ways to do this is by saying some tongue twisters, messaging you're jaws and trills. 

 After this lesson this week I have learnt that warming up you're voice can help you so much in many ways by singing. I also learnt that if you don't take care of you're voice it can cause major risks. Finally that breathing exercises can help you sing much better without getting out of breath. 
 So during this week before i started to sing at home i decided to try these warm ups, to see if any improvement was made and i how i measured this was by recording myself singing and seeing how far i could go on my scale warm up.The reason why i did this was because one of my Vocal goals are to expand my vocal range.