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Warm-Ups For Choir

Warm-ups are important for concentration, coordination, and control. Stretches and posture exercises prepare the body for proper breath management and tone production. Breathing exercises connect breath to sound and rhythm. The five basic vowels are practiced with sips, sighs, and sliding to check posture and range. Tone is produced by pushing the voice forward and exploring registers with descending and ascending exercises. Warm-ups should be engaging with stories and partner work.

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Warm-Ups For Choir

Warm-ups are important for concentration, coordination, and control. Stretches and posture exercises prepare the body for proper breath management and tone production. Breathing exercises connect breath to sound and rhythm. The five basic vowels are practiced with sips, sighs, and sliding to check posture and range. Tone is produced by pushing the voice forward and exploring registers with descending and ascending exercises. Warm-ups should be engaging with stories and partner work.

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Warm-ups

Exercise (like an athlete) for: concentration, coordination, and control


5 long stretches up
5 stretches down be sure to relax the neck, head and arms (heavy and loose)
Rotate shoulders forward slowly
Gently drop head and rotate slowly from side to side
Gently massage face and jaw with the back of hands (release tension in jaw and
tongue
Roll shoulders backward slowly, then drop them back and down
Posture: your body is the voice; the way you look influences how you sound
- Feet slightly apart, hands at the side, upper body placed high, head evenly and
naturally aligned with the spine
- Remind students to sit tall or do shoulder shrugs
* Posture is the key to proper breath management and healthy tone
production
Breathing
- Breathing Management
o Cold air sip in through straw (lips form oo), out through ts (hiss)
o Feel your breath in the palm of your hand
o Pant like a puppy
o Inhale through nose for 4, exhale for longer and extend length each time
o Blow out candle (move it further away)
- Connect breath to sound/rhythmic breathing and staccato
o Ch, ch, ch, ch ------; p, t, k, f, s, sh
* Breathe with rhythms that reflect your repertoire
Tone Production: Singing tone is directly related to vowel colour
- Five basic vowels: [i], [e], [a], [o], [u]. (ee), (ay), (ah), (oh), (oo)
- Sip and sigh: cold air breath and slowly release on ah, sliding from high to low
checking that the chest and shoulders do not collapse as the pitch falls. Repeat with
oo but have the pitch rise and fall.
- Unison: nee, nay, nah, no, noo. Pushing the voice forward (rise by semitones)
- Descending oo: head voice into lower registers: downward triads
- Ascending octave, descending arpeggio, sustain basic vowels with wide range.
Place back of hands on face so the jaw drops and tongue falls forward.
- Young men encourage use of falsetto, through a yawn/sigh
* Reference the Choral warm-ups sheet
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Others
Group shoulder massage
Feel each others shoulders during breathing exercises
Move the tongue around really fast in the mouth and push it against everywhere
inside the mouth
Make up stories during and for your warm-ups

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