A selection of vocal warm up books, cd and dvd for solo singers, choirs, choral directors and singing teachers to help warm up the voice before lessons, singing practice or vocal performances. These warm ups are provided in book or sheet music format, some with examples and/or accompaniment on CD or DVD. These vocal warm-ups may also offer instruction and advice on technique or direction for teachers / choral directors for use in lessons. There are enough listed below to provide you with plenty of ideas and exercises to help warm up the voice without getting bored as well as aid in improving agility and stamina.
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Vocalize! Book/CD (SheetMusicPlu45 Accompanied Vocal Warm-Ups That Teach Technique.
Each exercise in this invaluable resource is designed to reinforce fundamental vocal concepts for choral and solo singers of any age. Organized in 11 focused categories, the purpose of every warm-up is evident, and clearly-stated directions optimize growth. Supportive piano accompaniments, including progressive modulations, are lightly-orchestrated on the enclosed recording—perfect for ensemble rehearsals, studio lessons, or at-home practice. As an added bonus, PDF files on the enhanced CD provide extracted vocal lines on reproducible singer pages. An instructional book you will use again and again! Topics include: beginning warm-ups, posture, vowels, breath support, tone quality, diction, dynamics, articulations, diphthongs, blend, scales, intervals, harmony, and more. The comb binding creates a lay-flat book that is perfect for study and performance.
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200 Exercises for Chorus and Solo Singers. What choral conductor or soloist has not looked around for new ideas for warming up the voice? Here are 200 suggestions all at once! These creative exercises do more than just warm up the voice: they help to relax the body, train the ear and develop an awareness of dynamics and rhythm.
Chicken Tikka Collection of Vocal Warm-Up Exercises (CD or Digital Audio)
(For Younger Voices) by Tom Wakeley. Chicken Tikka Collection of Vocal Warm-Up Exercises (CD with Printable Piano Score) is aimed at younger voices (ages 5 to 14) and contains 10 singing exercises, vocal games and tongue-twisters which are technically valuable, stimulating and great fun (especially as they get faster and faster!). You can listen to the exercises performed by professional vocalists (join in when you’re ready), then once you’ve got the idea, you sing the vocals to the backing tracks. Use the exercises as simple warm-ups or as part of a regular practice routine. They are ideal for solo singers, choir leaders, Musical Directors, singing teachers and vocal coaches. If you direct your singers from the Piano, you can print out the Piano score for each exercise as many times as you need using the CD Extra in your PC or Mac. Even is you never intend to play the Piano part, do look at the Piano score for more advice and ideas. Breathing (for breath control) Me Ah Smile (for placing of sound) Me Ah Smile (for placing of sound) Ee Ay Ah (building on placing of sound) Sheep (movement in 3rds) Can You Count? (for the brain and the diction) Days Of The Week (more brain and diction testers) Days Of The Week (more brain and diction testers) Tongue Twisters (diction, diction, diction!) Chicken Tikka (for the tongue on the teeth) Chicken Tikka (for the tongue on the teeth) Chicken Tikka Mango Chutney (let’s get physical) The Grand Old Duke Of York (for the brain and the smile)
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Choir Builders for Growing Voices (SheetMusic & CD) (SheetMusicPlus)
18 Vocal Exercises for Warm-up & Workout. When do you start teaching proper vocal technique to young voices? RIGHT NOW! Here are 18 fun and original exercises that will get your students’ growing voices on the right track to producing a quality sound. Posture, breathing, flexibility, range of voice and more are all addressed in these wonderful exercises for young voices. Sing along with the demonstration tracks on the enclosed CD for quick learning, or use the accompaniment-only tracks for ear training and assessment options. Get ready to workout to a better sounding choir! Available: Book/CD (with reproducible pages). Suggested for grades 3-8.
Choral Vocal Technique DVD (SheetMusicPlus)Frauke Haasemann and her teachings regarding vocal technique have become legendary. Thousands of choral conductors have benefited from her books and workshops. Now, her primary student in Europe, Sabine Horstmann, has published and newly recorded her creative exercises based on the teachings of Frauke Haasemann. On this DVD, Horstmann demonstrates the vocal technique sequences covered in her book, which in the past have been difficult to convey on just ink and paper. This DVD provides an overview of choral vocal technique for choirs at any level of development. The sequential exercises Horstmann demonstrates can serve as the central part of vocal training for any choir.
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The Choral Warm-Up: Accompaniment edition with CDs. This volume contains accompaniments to the exercises in the book and demonstrated on the DVD.
Choral Warm Up Collection (SheetMusicPlus)
Alfred Music is proud to support ACDA (The American Choral Directors Association) with the publication of The Choral Warm-Up Collection, a new sourcebook featuring 167 favorite warm-ups contributed by 51 choral directors from across the nation. These generous directors have agreed to donate their royalties to the ACDA Endowment Trust, to be used for student scholarships and conducting awards. This incredible resource consists of warm-ups for every situation and focusing on many different vocal areas. The text is organized into several categories: beginning warm-ups, breathing, vowels, diction, flexibility, scales, intervals, intonation, phrasing, blend, dynamics, minor, range, chords and rounds. The comb binding creates a lay-flat book that is perfect for study and performance. Set the mood for a successful choral rehearsal while developing and reinforcing positive ensemble vocal techniques with The Choral Warm-Up Collection.
Choral Warm-ups a la Pachelbel (SheetMusicPlus)
(SATB) By Johann Pachelbel. Looking for something different to warm up your choir? Try this, a series of nine choral warm-ups based on the ever-popular Pachelbel Canon, each one progressively more challenging. Vocalize on neutral syllables in choral style, either those given or make up your own. Simple IPA vowels help develop good vocal/choral technique. Loosen up lips and tongue with the “la-ba-da-ba” and “du-bi-du-bi”. Not just suitable for rehearsals, you might want to program it into your concert as well.
The Doo-be-doo Pop Collection of Vocal Warm-up Exercises (CD or Digital Audio)
10 exercises for the voice with both a backing track version (you sing!) and demo tracks with vocals by professional singers to get you started. On the CD you’ll also find a pdf of the printable piano score – ideal for working with choirs or theatre groups by West End Musical Director Mike Dixon.
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Jazz Warm-ups and Vocalises Book/CD (SheetMusicPlus)
Here’s a perfect set of warm-ups for the vocal jazz ensemble that’s designed to enhance and stimulate the growth of each member’s vocal and choral ability. Thinking of the warm-up as a “mini voice lesson,â€Â you can reinforce concepts with consistent encouragement, criticism, problem-solving and praise. This practical volume will help the conductor provide purposeful leadership and develop artistry in each individual through exercises that build styles such as Swing, Latin and Rock using solfége and scat syllables as well as tone and blend in ballad style. Each exercise includes a notated keyboard accompaniment with multiple modulations and professional recordings of a rhythm section and singers performing each drill on the enclosed CD.
The Choral Warm Up (SheetMusicPlus)
Method, Procedures, and Core Vocal. This text by James Jordan summarizes his 25 years of experience teaching and reinforcing healthy vocal technique for choirs at all levels of development. The book is a comprehensive guide to the teaching of vocal technique through the choral warm-up that he has presented to thousands of choral directors in workshops across the country. Philosophy, teaching procedures, and specific exercises are presented in the text. Among the topics included are: alignment (using Alexander Technique and Body Mapping principles), use of the sigh for diagnosing vocal problems, breathing, inhalation, exhalation, support, resonance, vowel colors, leaps, range extension, “crescendo/decrescendo,” martellato, staccato, procedures for teaching diction plus general diction guidelines, teaching and reinforcing rhythm and consistent tempo, and strategies for good intonation. This is a comprehensive vocal guide for choral directors. Accompaniment CD included. “The Choral Warm-Up” is designed to: help conductors plan and implement efficient choral warm-ups, build healthy voices within the choral rehearsal, provide vocalises that have accompaniments complete with modulations upward and downward, and categorize vocalises according to specific vocal objectives.
Handel’s Messiah: Warm-Ups For Successful Performance (Book/Online Media)
Specially designed to help choirs who are preparing to sing Handel’s Messiah. This valuable resource is a must for every choral director responsible for guiding the performance of this cherished yet challenging work. The book is available as a Director’s Score or Singer’s Edition and each is broken into three sections: Part I provides an introduction to preparing Messiah and highlights Baroque performance practice and ideals, practical considerations for the performance and other helpful information. Part II includes warm-ups for 20 choruses. Part III includes appendices with a historical context of Messiah, primary sources supporting Baroque style and expression and a recommended reading list. The Director’s Score includes the full text and warm-ups with Piano accompaniments, along with a code for accessing downloadable singer parts online. The Singer’s Edition includes a handy folder-sized print edition of the vocal warm-ups.
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Leonard Bernstein: Warm Up (Mass)
This Round, which is used in Bernstein’s Mass was written as a ‘warm-up’ to the full composition of Mass. Arranged for 3 part chorus.
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Mike Brewer’s Warm-ups!
‘Mike Brewer’s Warm-ups!’ is the indispensable handbook for singers and choral directors. Warm-ups are a series of activities that get the body and brain into gear, reinforce healthy and effective singing practice and are above all – fun! Divided into 36 practical sessions, arranged progressively. The book is packed full with physical and mental activities to tackle all aspects of vocal technique, including: posture, breathing, sound-making, velocity, virtuosity and flexibility, range, register and resonance, harmony and blend, body, mind and spirit. With over 200 warm-up ideas, including seventy musical examples, you will find an abundance of ideas in Mike Brewer’s characteristically lively and innovative style.
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Notecracker Vocal Warm-Ups
These pocket-sized swatch-packs are great for quick reference at home or on the go. Each Notecracker contains 70 handy reference cards, printed on both sides for quick access to chord diagrams, general music theory, jokes, quotes and snippets of musical trivia. Notecracker Vocal Warm-Ups is a selection of easy Vocal warm-ups, for all Voices.
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Pop Warm-ups & Work-outs For Choir
Created by Roger Emerson to provide a series of warm-ups for all choirs utilising classic rock and pop melodies to build vocal skills while having fun! Each of the ten warm-ups provide a focus objective, suggested learning outcomes and related choral literature for younger and developing ensembles. Warm-ups may be used with changed or unchanged voices. Concepts covered include: vowel shapes, resonance, breath control, head voice and falsetto, articulation and diction and much more! Warm-ups are based on these pop classics: At the Hop, Do-Re-Mi, Don’t Stop Believin’, Good Vibrations, Hound Dog, Lean on Me, The Longest Time, Spinning Wheel, Thriller, Witch Doctor.
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Pop Warm-Ups And Work-Outs For Choir – Volume 2 (Book/Online Audio)
This sequel includes many of the latest pop song melodies and motives to inspire students to sing with gusto and to reinforce basic choral fundamentals common to all types of music. The ten songs featured in this second volume of Pop Warm-Ups And Work-Outs For Choir are preceded by suggestions for practising and reinforcing skills such as breath control, ear training, vowel shapes, resonance, range extension and head voice development. The warm-ups can be used with changed or unchanged voices. The professionally produced audio recordings present each exercise with and without singers, and are included via digital download. Pop Warm-Ups And Work-Outs For Choir Volume 2 is a valuable resource that will encourage students to sing out while building a better understanding of their amazing instrument – the human voice! Warm-Ups are based on the following songs: Ho Hey, Home, Best Day of My Life, The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Moves Like Jagger, The Flight of the Bumblebee, Chasing the Sun, The Interval Song, The Christmas Song, Some Nights. Suggested for middle and high school choirs.
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Pop Warm-Ups & Work-Outs For Guys
Unchanged, changing or changed male singers in middle school and high school may need a little extra help in ‘finding’ their singing voices. Roger Emerson has developed a series of warm-ups that uses excerpts from classic rock and roll tunes that will provide the motivation and repetition they need to do just that. Each song features limited ranges starting moderately and gradually ascending into the tenor range and descending through the bass range as needed. The professionally-produced CD recording (available separately – HL08750118) presents each exercise with vocals so your guys have a model to emulate. Exercises are based on the following songs: The Addams Family Theme; Theme from “Jaws;â€Â Jump, Jive an’ Wail; Land of a Thousand Dances; Mission: Impossible Theme; Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye; Shake, Rattle and Roll; Smoke on the Water; We Will Rock You.
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Pop Warm-Ups & Work-Outs For Guys (CD)
Unchanged, changing or changed male singers in middle school and high school may need a little extra help in ‘finding’ their singing voices. Roger Emerson has developed a series of warm-ups that uses excerpts from classic rock and roll tunes that will provide the motivation and repetition they need to do just that. Each song features limited ranges and the pattern starts in a moderate range and gradually ascends into the tenor range and descends through the bass range as needed. Exercises are based on the following songs: The Addams Family Theme; Theme from ‘Jaws’; Jump, Jive an’ Wail; Land of a Thousand Dances; Mission: Impossible Theme; Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye; Shake, Rattle and Roll; Smoke on the Water; We Will Rock You. Designed to accompany the Pop Warm-Ups & Work-Outs For Guys book (HL08749926), this CD contains recordings of each exercise complete with vocals, so your guys have a model to emulate.
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Practical Time Saving Warm Ups (SheetMusicPlus)
A practical, time-saving approach to warming up the choir. Logical and sequential follow-up to the first set of TIME SAVING WARM UPS. Easy, singable and educational. A must for every busy choir director who cares about good vocal health and technique.
Quick and Easy Vocal Workouts From Head to Toe For Children (SheetMusicPlus)
Fun vocal warmups and workouts for children. Songs warm up the parts of the body used in singing – the head, neck, mouth, arms, diaphragm, legs, feet, etc. Includes melody line and piano accompaniment.
Red Hot Song Library – Warm Ups (Book/CD)
by Sarah Watts is an amazing resource to help teachers introduce singing that is fun, relaxed and successful. Play through the books or listen to the CDs, which include both practice and performance tracks, and you’ll hear jut why so many educational professionals embrace Sarah Watts’ music with such enthusiasm. Sarah has a passion for encouraging people to enjoy music. As Artistic Director of the National Youth Music Camps she plays a large part in promoting the Dankworth ‘all music’ philosophy that influenced her early years.
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Sing! Vocal Warm-ups For All Styles (Book/Audio Download)
Sing! is a complete programme of effective and efficient Vocal Warm-ups suitable for all styles of singing. Also featuring a download card that gives you access to online audio and spoken instructions so that your voice will be in the best shape possible for any performance. Written by an accomplished, world-class vocal coach with around 30 years experience working with singers in a multitude of genres and styles, Sing! Vocal Warm-ups will explain the science behind the intricacies of the human voice while providing you with 39 exercises to help you warm up your voice as effectively as possible, reducing the risk of frustrating strain or injury. Whether you’re a smooth jazz singer, a powerful rock belter or a folk crooner, this book will allow you to refine various vocal techniques, encouraging you to learn how to protect your voice and prepare it for making the best possible performance. The convenient book will take you through different regimes, getting you to sing well, low, supported, long, freely and clearly, with each one focusing on a different aspect of your voice and your singing technique. You can use the exercises to plan your own warm-up routine, or just work your way though. Using the audio examples provided on the practical and useful download card, you will be encouraged to participate as you might in a live warm-up session. The spoken instructions will guide you through, while you’ll be able to sing along to the music or just familiarise yourself with each exercise before you try it out for yourself. The logical layout and authoritative exercises make Sing! an essential tool for singers of any style to learn how to properly warm-up.
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Singing In Tune
Strategies and solutions for conductors, conductors-in-training, and voice teachers. This book from Nancy Telfer will give you and your choir a firm and extensive grounding in real-life choral experiences and lots of fun in learning. A useful text that can be useful with beginners or experienced sight-singers who need a review.
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Singing Tongue Twisters A to Z (Book/CD) (SheetMusicPlus)
Singing Tongue Twisters A-Z contains 50 creative and fun vocal warm-ups for improving diction and pitch. Choral Warm-up. Perfect for teachers and vocalists, this fun sing-a-long book contains singing tongue twisters of variable difficulty levels, read-a-long worksheets, and a 50 track sing-a-long CD. Singing Tongue Twisters A-Z is the perfect warm-up tool for choral groups and individual singers. For all ages.
Successful Warm-Ups Book 1
Perfect for choirs and choral classes, this series provides a detailed plan for implementing a comprehensive programme of vocal production through warm-ups. The purpose of each practical warm-up piece is clearly identified, with tips to help singers make the most of each warm-up. Further information is given in the Conductor’s Edition, together with weekly plans and a diagnostic chart.
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Successful Warm-Ups Book 2
Perfect for choirs and choral classes, this series provides a detailed plan for implementing a comprehensive programme of vocal production through warm-ups. The purpose of each practical warm-up piece is clearly identified, with tips to help singers make the most of each warm-up. Further information is given in the Conductor’s Edition, together with weekly plans and a diagnostic chart.
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The Perfect Blend DVD (SheetMusicPluSeriously Fun Vocal Warm Ups. Tim Seelig’s bestselling vocal warm-up book, The Perfect Blend, has wowed music educators and choral directors alike with its entertaining, yet practical, approach. Shawnee Press now presents a new DVD companion to this phenomenal book that includes two hours of seriously fun instruction. From the basic building block of breath to the final bow in the concert, over 50 warm-ups are visually brought to life through choral demonstrations. The Perfect Blend is a must-have for serious directors!
The No Scales, Just Songs Vocal Workout : Baritone/Soprano Version
by Susan Anders
The original innovative vocal warm up and voice training method consisting of pop, rock and jazz songs from the 1940s-90s that gradually increase in difficulty–no scales, no arpeggios…nothing but songs. The songs can be sung with the lyrics or with the recommended vocal warm up sounds. Since it’s release, thousands of singers throughout the world have used the workout to develop and/or maintain their vocal technique and strength. Includes: Two CDs of 17 fully produced songs. Disc 1 includes the songs with vocals and instructional introductions. Disc 2 has the same songs without vocals. Disc 2 also has a section on how to stylize the songs once they are mastered. 72-page updated 5th Edition guidebook including detailed vocal technique information, song lyrics, vocal warm-up tips, troubleshooting hints, vocal stylizing ideas, glossary, study tips and more. Sing the Warm-up Set to loosen up, breathe correctly, increase your range, and to build control, resonance and better tone. Sing the Workout Set to increase your volume, vocal endurance, sustenance, belting ability, and pitch dexterity. Beginning singers can sing through the workout at their own pace to learn how to sing correctly and to develop good vocal technique and strength. Experienced singers can skip the instructional intros and use the workout as a vocal warm-up to build and maintain their vocal technique and strength.
Range: Alto/Bass version: Eb-D (almost two octaves). Baritone/Soprano version: Ab-G (almost two octaves)
Songs: Unchained Melody, Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This), Save the Best for Last, Sunny Came Home, Young at Heart, How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You), All of Me, Angel From Montgomery, Willow Weep For Me, Since I Fell for You, Walk Away Renee, Centerpiece, I’ll Stand by You, Dark End of the Street, Crazy Baby, Wade in the Water, Can’t Help Falling In Love.
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The No Scales, Just Songs Vocal Workout : Alto/Bass/High Tenor Version
by Susan Anders
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The No Scales, Just Songs Vocal Workout, Vol. Two: Alto/Bass/High Tenor Version
by Susan Anders
Range: Alto/Bass version: Eb-Eb (two octaves). Baritone/Soprano version: Ab-Ab (two octaves)
I Hope You Dance, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Don’t Know Why, I Can See Clearly Now, Dear Prudence, Cry Alison, Get Here, Tracks of My Tears, One Of Us, Why Don’t You Do Right? You’re Still the One, Thank You (Dido), Sunday Kind of Love, You Gotta Be, Summertime, Ms. Celie’s Blues (Sister), I’m Beginning To See the Light
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The No Scales, Just Songs Vocal Workout, Vol. Two: Baritone/Soprano Version
by Susan Anders
Range: Alto/Bass version: Eb-Eb (two octaves), Baritone/Soprano version: Ab-Ab (two octaves)
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The No Scales, Just Songs Vocal Workout, Vol. Two: Expanded Version
by Susan Anders
The follow-up to Susan’s popular original vocal workout, Vol. Two uses the same teaching format with eighteen new songs and a new, longer guidebook. This expanded version includes all four Alto/High Tenor/Bass and Baritone/Soprano CDs. Vol. Two has the format and level of difficulty as Volume One– that means Volume One is not a prerequisite for Volume Two. Individual Alto/High Tenor/Bass and a Baritone/Soprano versions are also available. Beginning singers can learn how to sing correctly and develop their voices by singing through the workout at their own pace, with or without the guidebook. Experienced singers can skip the audio singing lessons and use the workout to warm up and maintain their vocal technique and strength. Volume Two Expanded Version includes: Four CDs of 18 fully produced songs and audio singing lessons. CD #1A includes vocals and instructional introductions in alto/bass range. CD #2A has the same songs without vocals followed by a section on how to stylize the songs, all in alto/bass range. CD #1B includes vocals and instructional introductions for the same 18 songs in baritone/soprano range. CD #2B has the same songs without vocals followed by a section on how to stylize the songs, all in baritone/soprano range.76-page guidebook including detailed vocal technique information, troubleshooting hints, and vocal stylizing ideas for each song, as well as chapters on dealing with colds, allergies, the environment, and aging voices. Sing the Warm-up Set of ten songs to loosen up, breathe correctly, increase your range, and to build control, resonance and better tone. Sing the Workout Set of eight songs to increase your volume, vocal endurance, sustenance, belting ability, and pitch dexterity. Songs: I Hope You Dance, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Cry, Alison, Get Here, Don’t Know Why, Tracks of My Tears, One Of Us, Why Don’t You Do Right? You’re Still the One, Thank You (Dido), Sunday Kind of Love, You Gotta Be, Summertime, I Can See Clearly Now.
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The Just Songs Vocal Warmup for Kids
by Susan Anders
Available as MP3 or on CD format. The first CD provides clear instructions with easy to follow warm up songs which are performed using sounds instead of lyrics. The timeless folk, older pop and silly songs that parents will know and can sing along to with their children. Lyrics are included in the 2 CD package notes so easy to sing along to the backing tracks on the second CD.
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The Ultimate Practice Guide for Vocalists DVD (SheetMusicPlus)
Sing with more power and passion under the guidance of Donna McElroy, Berklee professor, Grammy nominee, Dove Award winner, and vocalist on multiple gold and platinum records. In this Master Class, McElroy shows you how to use the whole body to become the best singer you can be. See her work with a vocal student one-on-one, demonstrating how to use different muscle groups to increase vocal strength and endurance. She also provides lifestyle tips and simple everyday exercises to help you cultivate and protect the source of your vocal power – and sing with more freedom, force and stamina. 51 minutes.
The Um-Pah Collection Of Vocal Warm-Ups (CD or Digital Audio)
A selection of technical exercises and vocal games presented on CD Extra or Digital Audio. You can listen to the performance tracks, sing along with the professional vocalists or just sing solo to the backing tracks. Use the exercises as simple warm-ups or as part of a regular practice routine. They are ideal for solo singers, choir leaders, Musical Directors, singing teachers and vocal coaches. If you direct your singers from the Piano, you can print out the Piano score for each exercise as many times as you need using the CD Extra in your PC or Mac. Even if you do not intend to play the Piano part, do look at the Piano score for more advice and ideas by West End Musical Director Mike Dixon.
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Vocal Aerobics DVD (SheetMusicPlus)
World-renowned music educator Julie Lyonn Lieberman has created a practice system for singers that focuses on muscular facility. This system can help develop a vibrating palette that communicates spirit, emotion, and viewpoint – all riding effortlessly on the breath. It is supported by science yet connected to individuality. By guiding the exercises in silence first, this approach can prevent the tension and misuse that often occur when the main impetus for the creation of musical sound is fueled by a brew of yearning and fear mixed with a fixation on the end product. Topics covered include: strengthening and “aerobicizing†the muscles of the tongue, lips, mouth, and breath support; balancing the non-dominant side of the mouth; as well as posture, vocal health, and the use of visualization.
Vocal Exercises (SheetMusicPlus)
Vocal Exercises for Building Strength, Endurance and Facility. easily, one that is inconsistent in sound quality and/or pitch and dynamics, and one that gives out many years before the singer is ready to stop singing. Vocal strength is not all about singing loudly, it’s about singing well. The exercises and musical selections in this book are designed to help singers hone and refine their skills to develop the kind of control and consistency professional singers need to compete and find work. But mastering these skills is not just a task for professional singers – amateur singers who work on the exercises in this book will find singing easier and more fun with each new level of control they achieve. The online audio files contain demos for listening, and separate backing tracks so you can sing along. In addition to vocal exercises, several songs are included for practice, including: Danny Boy, The House of the Rising Sun, Look for the Silver Lining, Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child, and more. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
Vocal Exercises – The Ultimate Collection
Composed by Various. For voice. Printable and viewable for PC and Macintosh. Format: CD Sheet Music. Studies, technique, baroque, classical period and romantic period. The Ultimate Collection of Vocal Exercises. 3000 printable pages. This is the largest collection of vocal methods and studies in history. Configured in alternate keys for all voice types, this CD includes pieces by Abt, Bona, Bordogni, Concone, Dannhauser, Lablache, Lamperti, Lutgen, Marchesi, Panofka, Panseron, Rossini, Rubini, Shakespeare, Sieber, Spicker, Vaccai, and Viardot.
Contents:
Abt, F. Practical Singing Tutor for All Voices (Soprano or Tenor), Op. 474
Part 1 66
Part 2 69
Abt, F. Practical Singing Tutor for All Voices (Mezzo-Soprano or Alto), Op. 474
Part 1 68
Part 2 69
Abt, F. Practical Singing Tutor for All Voices (Baritone or Bass), Op. 474
Part 1 62
Part 2 47
Bona, P. Rhythmical Articulation 74
Bordogni, M. 36 Vocalises in Modern Style
Part 1 73
Part 2 74
Concone, J. 50 Lessons for High Voice, Op. 9
Part 1 37
Part 2 50
Concone, J. 50 Lessons for Medium Voice, Op. 9
Part 1 37
Part 2 50
Concone, J. 50 Lessons for Low Voice, Op. 9
Part 1 37
Part 2 50
Concone, J. 30 Daily Exercises for High Voice, Op. 11 25
Concone, J. 30 Daily Exercises for Low Voice, Op. 11 25
Concone, J. 15 Vocalises, Op. 12 High 53
Concone, J. 15 Vocalises, Op. 12 Medium or Low 53
Concone, J. 40 Lessons for Contralto, Op. 17
Part 1 44
Part 2 40
Concone, J. 25 Lessons for Medium Voice 51
Concone, J. The School of Sight-Singing 59
Dannhauser, A. L. Solfege des Solfeges
Volume I 64
Volume II 64
Volume III 61
Lablache, L. Exercises for Soprano or Tenor 42
Lamperti, F. Daily Exercises in Singing 18
Lamperti, F. The Art of Singing 57
Lamperti, G. S. 29 Preparatory Vocalises Alto 40
Lamperti, G. S. 30 Preparatory Vocalises Soprano 46
Lütgen, B. Vocalises for High Voice 28
Lütgen, B. Operatic Vocalises for High Voice 36
Lütgen, B. Vocalises for Medium Voice 28
Lütgen, B. Vocalises for Low Voice 28
Marchesi, M. Elementary Progressive Exercises for The Voice, Op. 1 33
Marchesi, M. 24 Vocalises for Soprano or Mezzo-Soprano, Op. 2 37
Marchesi, M. 24 Vocalises, Soprano, Opus 3 58
Marchesi, M. The Art of Singing, Opus 21
Book 1 44
Book 2 33
Marchesi, M. Vocal method, Op. 31
Part 1 54
Part 2 65
Marchesi, S. 20 Elementary and Progressive Vocalises for Alto, Op. 15 40
Marchesi, S. 20 Elementary and Progressive Vocalises for Medium Voice, Op. 15 40
Panofka, H. 24 Vocalises, Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Tenore 53
Panofka, H. 24 Vocalises, Op. 81 Alto, Baritone, Bass
Book 1 40
Book 2 43
Panofka, H. 24 Progressive Vocalises, Op. 85 Book 1
Book 1 23
Book 2 (all except Bass) 29
Panofka, H. Vocal ABC 46
Panseron, A. Method of Vocalization for Soprano and Tenor
Part 1, Scales and Exercises 1-42 52
Part 2, Scales and exercises 43-125 54
Part 3, Vocalises 1-27 55
Part 4, Vocalises 28-40 51
Rossini, G. Gorgheggi E Solfeggi 18
Rubini, G. 12 Lessons in Modern Singing for Tenor or Soprano 69
Shakespeare, W. The Art of Singing
Part 1 53
Part 2 60
Part 3 41
Part 4 48
Sieber, F. 10 Vocalises for Soprano, Op. 44 10
Sieber, F. 10 Easy Vocalises for Tenor, Op. 47 16
Sieber, F. 36 Eight-Measure Vocalises for Soprano, Op. 92 18
Sieber, F. 36 Eight-Measure Vocalises for Mezzo-Soprano, Op. 93 18
Sieber, F. 36 Eight-Measure Vocalises for Alto, Op. 94 18
Sieber, F. 36 Eight-Measure Vocalises for Tenor, Op. 95 18
Sieber, F. 36 Eight-Measure Vocalises for Baritone, Op. 96 18
Sieber, F. 36 Eight-Measure Vocalises for Bass, Op. 97 18
Spicker, M. Masterpieces of Vocalization
Volume 1, Soprano 74
Volume 2, Mezzo-Soprano 64
Vaccai, N. Practical Method for High Soprano 41
Vaccai, N. Practical Method for High Voice 38
Vaccai, N. Practical Method for Soprano, Tenor 42
Vaccai, N. Practical Method for Alto, Baritone 42
Viardot, P. An Hour of Study
Volume 1 39
Volume 2 65
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Vocal Warm Ups for the Female Voice (SheetMusicPlus)
A collection of ten exercises to warm up & improve your voice. Vocal & piano sheet music. Single / A4 / Download.
Vocal Warm-Ups Book & CD (SheetMusicPlus)
Singing requires putting the rest of your busy life aside and focusing on both the physical and creative components of making art through sound. Just like athletes, musicians must warm up to be limber, relaxed and ready to perform, and to prevent strain or injury. These 25 warm-ups are designed to take your voice and body from their everyday habits and routines and to focus and prepare them to sing well. The exercises begin with broad, large-muscle relaxation techniques and breathing work, and move on to a gradual, relaxed warm-up of your voice and strengthening of your vocal skills. The CD contains demos for listening and separate backing tracks so you can sing along. Three songs are also included for practice.
Vocal Warm-ups: 200 Exercises for Choral and Solo Singers
What choral conductor or soloist has not looked around for new ideas for warming up the voice? Here are 200 suggestions all at once! These creative exercises do more than just warm up the voice: they help to relax the body, train the ear and develop an awareness of dynamics and rhythm. Klaus Heizmann’s collection is a wonderful new resource of ideas and techniques: practical, varied, challenging, relaxing and stimulating. I am always looking for new ideas, as I like to use a different set of warm-ups at every rehersal with my choirs, and I tend to choose specific exercises to suit the repertoire for the day. This collection gives us 200 excellent “tools-of-the-trade”; they are clearly lebeled, intelligently set out, well-designed and extremely useful. Simon Carrington , Director of Choral Activities, New England Conservatory since 2001, Director of Choral Activities, The University of Kansas 1994-2001, and founder and co-director of the King’s Singers 1968-1993.
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Vocal Workouts for the Contemporary Singer (SheetMusicPlus)
The vocal workouts in this much-anticipated follow-up to Peckham’s bestselling The Contemporary Singer are based on Berklee College of Music’s highly effective vocal method. This volume will help vocalists develop the voice through good vocal health, warm-up exercises, advanced techniques, stage performance advice and more. Also includes sing-along tracks to support your workout. Audio is accessed online for download or streaming and contains PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
Vocal Warm-Ups for the Modern Singer
by Pamela Davis
Audio CD’s packed with vocal warm ups including breathing technique, legato, trills, lip placements, octaves, triplet diatonics, ascending and descending scales, pentatonic ascending and descending exercise and aerobic octave exercise.
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Voice Builders for Better Choirs (Book/CD) (SheetMusicPlus)
This valuable resource is a must for every choral director. The 140 warmups and vocal exercises in a handy Book/CD format will help singers produce a free and open tone, develop clean articulation and diction, improve resonance, intonation and more. The enclosed CD includes demonstration for each accompanied exercise for full choir, small group or individual practice.
Warm Up (SheetMusicPlus)
Warm Up’ is a song designed to get children in the mood to sing! It works well with a children’s choir and there is an option to add parts. Go to www.freemusicforteachers.com to listen to the vocal track and download free vocal scores and lyric sheets for this song.
Warm Up 2 (SheetMusicPlus)
Warm Up 2 is a fantastic song to get your children’s choir in the mood to sing and to warm up their voices. Go to www.freemusicforteachers.com for the free support materials, which include the vocal score, vocal recording and lyric sheet.
Warm-Up! Book/CD (SheetMusicPlus)
20 Purpose Driven Etudes to Develop Essential Choral Skills. Here’s a perfect set of warm-ups for the choral ensemble that’s designed to enhance and stimulate the growth of each member’s vocal and choral ability. Thinking of the warm-up as a “mini voice lesson,â€Â you can reinforce concepts with consistent encouragement, criticism, problem-solving and praise. This practical volume will help the conductor provide purposeful leadership and develop artistry in each individual through exercises for breath support, open tone, flexibility, vowel uniformity, balance, intonation and much more. Each exercise includes a notated keyboard accompaniment with multiple modulations and professional recordings of a rhythm section and singers performing each drill on the enclosed CD.
Warm-Ups And Work-Outs For The Developing Choir Volume 1
Frequently, amateur choral directors have to rely on warm-up exercises they have picked up during their own choral experience. This book aims to give such people a brief guide to vocal exercises which work to specific purposes. Emily Crocker is well known for her work with developing choirs, these excercises cover producing a free and open tone, articulation and diction, resonance and intonation.
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Warm-Ups And Work-Outs For The Developing Choir Volume 2
This book aims to give amateur choral conductors and singers a second brief guide to vocal exercises which work to specific purposes. Emily Crocker is well known for her work with developing choirs, these excercises cover producing a free and open tone, articulation and diction, resonance and intonation.
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Warm-ups For Pop Jazz And Show Choirs (Book)
Warming up your choir has never been this much fun! These 18 educational exercises are written in a variety of styles based on American popular music, including Swing, Rock, Latin and Cajun. Piano accompaniments are included, but a CD below is also available for a great-sounding and stylistic accompaniment! These warm-ups can be used to improve intonation, balance and blend, enunciation and vowel unification and to extend vocal ranges. Can also be used creatively as the basis for group composition and movement exercises. With these fresh starts you’re limited only by your imagination!
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Warming Up With Rounds (SheetMusicPlus)
Choral rounds have been used for recreational singing for hundreds of years and are effective tools for your students to understand harmony, expand their vocal ranges, and experience a choral sound that is easily accessible to them. Music educators can satisfy state and national music standards with a carefully crafted choral curriculum, bringing choir back into the daily classroom schedule. By using rounds as warm-ups, you can teach vocal technique, music theory, application, appreciation, and history, as well as increase your singers’ understanding of scales, intervals, modes, dynamics, and terminology. Each round in this collection has instructions on the musical focus and implementation of the song. Additional comments give insight into the historical background or practical tips for a successful performance. Several rounds were intentionally included for adolescent boys with a limited range. Warming Up with Rounds includes both familiar and rare rounds that are easy and challenging, as well as serious and fun. Music teachers and their students will enjoy discovering the secrets that choral rounds offer and ultimately feel a great sense of accomplishment when they make beautiful, harmonious music together.