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Voice 101

Vocal Development Guide

So, you want to be a singer? Here are some Tips and Guide

thatll help you develop your Vocal s!ills"

Healthy Voice

#s a singer you need to ta!e care o$ your voice and your

entire body be$ore singing begin"

Good nutrition and ade%uate rest boost your immune

system, helping you avoid colds and other health

problems that will a&ect your Voice 'sage"

Hydration is very important $or helping the voice $unction

at its optimum $or lessons and per$ormances" Duringsinging tas!s, drin!ing tolerable (#T)* is ideal +-T

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Warming up!

(hen youre ready to begin practicing, you need to ta!e

time to slowly warm up your vocal instrument so that it will be

ready $or the demand that are about to be placed on it" t isnever recommended that a singer do an intense vocal demand

without 2rst allowing the voice to properly warm up"

)3ercises4

Prepare your body before singing:5ou want to get

your entire body ready to sing, not 6ust your singing

muscles" Try the $ollowing stretching routine"

1" Head *otation7" Smile closed mouth8" Smile open mouth9" -pen mouth stretch:" ;rown +lower lip" Shoulder massage

" Shoulder *otation10"Side bend11";ront bend

1. Lip Trill :

@eginner1" Ta!e a breath, and send the breath between

your lips and let them vibrate" $ your lips

dont vibrate its probably because theyre too

tight"7" $ your lips are tight, place a 2nger at the

corners o$ your mouth and gently push the

corner o$ your lips as you do the lip trill"8" Try to sustain the lip trill in 9 counts Arepeat

:3A9" $ mastered, do the lip trill and produce a

sound in one pitch or note

#dvanced

1" 5ou already !now how to do your lip trill" Tryto sustain your lip trill in < counts and repeat

: times7" ow, Do the lip trill with 8 notes A7counts

each noteA Arepeat :3A

ntermediate

1" Sustain your lip trill in 10 counts and repeat :

times7" Do the lip trill with : notes A7counts each

noteA Arepeat :3A

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2. reathing "ercise :

1" (ith a proper way o$ breathing, produce this

BssssC $ocusing on ma!ing the sound stable

and !eeping the volume constant"7" e3t is roduce the same Essss sound, but

this time, try to do it as loudly as you can,

e3pelling the air through that small hole $rom

your air balloon as %uic!ly as you canF SSSSF8" roduce a series o$ light and bouncy Essss

sounds" BsssF sssF sssF sssF sssFC

8" Vo#els 4 Good #rticulation @egins (ith Good Vowelroduction

1" -ne o$ the most important techni%ues to

learn is proper shaping o$ primary vowels" +#h

)h )e -h -o 7" -pen your mouth widely and observe the

di&erent shapes o$ your mouth while

pronouncing each vowels

eginner

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reathing

1" /ong S7" Short s

Vocal "ercises

1" Humming 17" Vowel +eeh8" Vowel +aah9" #more:" /ip trill

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$d%anced

&tage Performance :

@eginners 4

#dvanced 4

ntermediate 4