PHYSICAL and VOCAL EXERCISES Start your choir session with about 5 minutes of warm up exercises. Create your own lists and do them each week. Students learn singing skills and correct vocal technique from the exercises. Students may like to lead the physical exercises themselves. 1. Physical Make sure choir are standing tall, with shoulders back, and feet about a shoulders width apart. Arms and hands are relaxed by sides. These provide brain energy, alertness, well-being, stimulate breathing and assist relaxation necessary for singing. Arm stretching to the ceiling Backwards shoulder rolls Jogging on the spot Shoulder hunching Do these exercises in time to a good modern beat – perhaps the students can bring along a CD each week and be responsible for the exercises. 2. Faces Chewing like a cow Yawning Clean your teeth with your tongue Eyebrow sit-ups 3. Singing sitting posture Practise sitting on the front half of the chair, space between your back and the back of the chair. Balance with feet on floor. 4. Relaxing the jaw Move the jaw quickly and keep the lips rounded 5. Activating the muscle system Pant like a dog on a hot day. Feel the movement of the ‘breathing muscle’ (diaphragm). Place fingertips just below the rib cage and see if the diaphragm moves during the following exercises: use whispered sounds only, no voice. 6. Breathing
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PHYSICAL and VOCAL EXERCISES
Start your choir session with about 5 minutes of warm up exercises.
Create your own lists and do them each week.
Students learn singing skills and correct vocal technique from the exercises.
Students may like to lead the physical exercises themselves.
1. Physical
Make sure choir are standing tall, with shoulders back, and feet about a shoulders width apart. Arms and
hands are relaxed by sides.
These provide brain energy, alertness, well-being, stimulate breathing and assist relaxation necessary for
singing.
Arm stretching to the ceiling
Backwards shoulder rolls
Jogging on the spot
Shoulder hunching
Do these exercises in time to a good modern beat – perhaps the students can bring along a CD each week
and be responsible for the exercises.
2. Faces
Chewing like a cow
Yawning
Clean your teeth with your tongue
Eyebrow sit-ups
3. Singing sitting posture
Practise sitting on the front half of the chair, space between your back and the back of the chair. Balance
with feet on floor.
4. Relaxing the jaw
Move the jaw quickly and keep the lips rounded
5. Activating the muscle system
Pant like a dog on a hot day. Feel the movement of the ‘breathing muscle’ (diaphragm). Place fingertips just
below the rib cage and see if the diaphragm moves during the following exercises: use whispered sounds
only, no voice.
6. Breathing
Practise taking breaths into the lower rib cage area, by breathing as if through a straw. Inhale to count of
3, hold for 3 then exhale for 3 silently.
Sing a phrase of numbers 1 – 25, then perhaps 1 – 30 etc
Sing 1234567 8 7654321 growing louder then softer.
Sing the alphabet forwards in one breath
Sing “Twinkle, Twinkle little star” all through without taking another breath.
7. Humming
Hum a mid range note for pitch, turn it into nar, mar, nyar.