Chords for Professional Vocal Warm Up Exercises | Vocal Workshop

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We've invited Kim Wood Sandusky to come and work us through a vocal session.
Kim Wood Sandusky is my vocal coach and she has been working with me for a
couple of years and works with a lot of artists, world-renowned artists.
_ Rachel
Robinson who you probably recognize from the tours, she sings with me a lot so
she was gracious enough to come and be a part of this vocal warm-up today.
So I'm
not sure what's going to happen but Kim will kind of push us and I invite you to
join us and sing along, warm up with us.
We'll work with the guys and we'll work
with the girls as well.
So Kim, over to you.
Don't be too hard on me.
I'll try not to be.
He deserves it though.
_ _ First of all, I just want to make the comment that warming up before anything that you do with
singing is a necessity.
Even for the great, world-renowned, the biggest artists in the world,
they need to be warmed up and so do you.
So I'm going to start [C] out with a little warm-up with Don
and this is the [E] pattern.
[G] _ [E] _ [C]
Okay Don, I want you to do that for me on foo foo foo.
_ [D] _
[F] _ _ [E] _ [C] _ [Db] _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ [E] _ [A] _ _ [D] _
[Eb] _ [Fm] _ _ _ [G] [Eb] Good.
[E] Good. _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [D] [C] Good.
Good.
We're going to change that up _ _ and we're going to do that on my my my.
_ My my my my [Db] my my my my my my [D] my my my my my my my my my my my [Eb] _ _ my my my my [E] my my my my _ my my [Eb] my my my my _ my [D] my my
_ _ [F] Great.
Now we're going to pull it down to the lower part of the register for Amel [G] _ [C] _ [A]
[F] and for Don.
I want you
do that on guy guy guy [A] guy [Bb] guy guy guy guy guy [F] guy.
[Gb] _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ [Gb] [G] Good _ _ [C] _ [G] _
_ [Ab] _ _ _ [Db] _ [Ab] _ _ [A] _
now [Ab] _ _ [A] _ we're gonna warm the the breath up a little bit with a little breathing stamina
technique.
I don't like this.
I know you don't don, but they are so good for you.
They're
good for all [F] of you.
_ _ _ You're going to hold the top note while I count to 10 [Abm] and then
you're just going to let [F] the note off.
Okay?
And we're going to do it on B, B, B, B, E.
_ _ [C] B, [F] B, B, E, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
Off.
[Gb] _ B, [Db] B, B, [Gb] E, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
10.
[G] Off. _
B, B, B, E, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, [N] 7, 8, 9, 10.
Off.
Now we're going to go into
a little bit of the vocal building process where I go into the muscles and I start strengthening
them.
Okay?
This is a little bit more aggressive.
So, _ Don, if you need to grab a drink of water,
this would probably be a good time.
And I want to make mention now that water is a singer's
best friend.
It really doesn't matter to me what else you drink.
If you want to drink
coffee, tea, Cokes, really each body is individual.
And I don't have anything to say about that
other than I need water.
At least eight glasses of water a day _ minimum.
That's very important
for singers.
And I suggest getting five glasses of water a day before noon.
And then trying
to get two more before 6 p.m. and one or two more in the evening.
That way you've spread
out the hydration process [A] with your voice.
Okay, here we go.
_ [Db] _
[D] _ [E] _ [Db] _ [A] Okay, I want you to do that
on hi, hi, hi.
[Dbm] Hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, [Bb] hi, hi, [Ab] hi, hi, hi, [Cm] hi, hi, [B] _ _ [Dbm] _
_ hi, hi, hi, hi,
[C] hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, [D] hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, [Db] hi, hi, hi,
Hi, hi, hi.
_ _ [C] _
_ Hi, _ [B] _ _ [Dbm] hi, hi.
_ [Bb] Hi, [Ab] hi.
_ _ [Bbm]
[F] Okay, now we're going to move to this pattern, Don.
And _ _ _ _ I'm going to [D] take it a little bit
lower than that.
We're gonna start building
some of your deeper muscles and we're gonna do that on meh meh meh
_ meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh [E] meh.
good _ _ .mez meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh [F] meh
meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh [E] meh
meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh
[C] Good now Don I want to try this one.
_ [Dm] _ [Em] _ _ [F] _
_ [Em] _ _ [Dm] _ [G] _ [C] Okay do that on
Bay, bay, bay, B-A.
Ready?
Go.
_ [Dm] _ _ [Em] _
[F] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ [Dm] _ [G] _ _
[C] _ [D] _ _ [Em] _ _ [Gbm] _ [G] _ _
_ [Gbm] _ _ [Em] _ [Gbm] _ [D] _ [C] _ _
_ [Dm] [Em] Good.
_ [F] _ _ _ [Em] _
[Dm] _ [G] _ _ [C] _ Right here. _ _
Hoo, hoo, hoo.
_ _ _ _ [Db] _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ Hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, [Db] hoo, hoo.
Hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, [C] hoo, hoo, hoo.
Hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo.
Right.
Now I'm going to cool your voice [Abm] down just a little bit.
After you've had a performance, or after you've sung in church,
or wherever you may have sung, you need to [C] cool the voice down.
Get backstage, get somewhere quiet, and just relax the voice down.
And this is just what I suggest doing.
[G] _ [D] _ [C] _
Just do it on pi, pi, pi, just very gently.
[E] Pi, pi, pi, [B] pi, pi.
[E] Pi, [Eb] pi, [Db] pi, [B] pi, [Bb] pi.
Pi, [D] pi, [Gm] pi, pi, [A] pi.
[D] Pi, pi, [B] pi, [A] pi, pi.
Good.
Now I want you to do it on ZZZ, [C] Z-E.
_ _ [F] [E] ZZZ, [C]
[B] ZZ, Z.
[E] [Eb] ZZZ, [B] ZZ, [Bb] Z.
[Eb]
[D] ZZZ, [Bb] ZZ, Z.
[A] _ [D] ZZZ, [B] [A] ZZ, Z.
Didn't that feel good, Don?
It does, yeah.
It just brings all the tension that you may have come out from singing,
just [Fm] brings it down.
It's like a runner.
After they've run, they always stretch and cool down afterwards,
and this is the same process.
And you also need to be drinking a lot of water after you've sung, too.
It's just very, very, the hydration process, I cannot stress enough.
It's the most important thing that a singer has to their access
to keep their voices healthy is water.
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