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How to choose your vocal exercises? | Singing Classes For Beginners
How to choose your vocal exercises? | Singing Classes For Beginners
Which vocal exercises are the best?
Should you do the NAYs or the MOMs?
Should you try to sing through the straw.
Maybe you should stick you tongue as you’re doing exercises.
Today I want to share with you the biggest trap when it comes to choosing vocal exercises and then also how exactly I help my private students with deciding exercises
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I’m going to start here. Most exercises can work.
I think a common trap that people can fall into is that they think
“If I find the right vocal exercise or if I do a bunch of exercises, then my voice will naturally get better”
And this can happen for some singers.
But I find it works because they already build good fundamentals. These are the singers where you can throw anything at them and it’ll work. I’m incredibly jealous.
But for the rest of us who have tried switching to all these different vocal exercises only to run into the same problem.
This for me highlights we need a different strategy.
Instead of choosing the right exercise, we need to focus on doing exercises right.
How I approach choosing VOCAL exercises?
When I’m working with a new student.
Our biggest initial goal is establishing or finding just ONE scale/exercise where they feel great execution of the fundamentals.
Most the exercise/scales are just some variation of the fundamentals being worked.
1) How does it feel to change pitch easily without anything else changing?
2) How does it feel to change volume easily without anything else changing?
And so rather doing all these different exercises. If we can just feel ONE exercise being executed correctly even if we have to spend a while on it. It creates a really strong baseline of good technique.
Because from here,
We branch out and we translate that feeling across.
Say if you can do an exercise well. You know what it feels like to change pitch without anything else changing.
We then branch out to a harder variations.
Usually you’ll notice the execute gets rough.
But because I’ve already got one scale that I execute quite clean. Then I just need to translate that feeling across.
The problem without having that initial scale as a reference. It can be very easy to run around in circles because you start chasing all these different sensations?
“Should singing feel like this?”
“Is this correct?”
Whereas if we branch out from an reference scale, we start to teach out voice to apply the same fundamentals regardless of the word, the volume, the speed.
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