Welcome.
I agree with you that it depends on the group with which you are working.I work
with a group of seniors and usually begin my choir rehearsals with the 5 note
scale on the vowel ah beginning on middle c. I then do a very relaxing ex. ,
again on ah, it goes like this dtd,rdr,mrm,fmf,s(pause on s for 3
beats).sls,fsf,mfm,rmr,d (pause on d for 3 beats). In these exercises I go up in
semitones. After these 2 exercises I sometimes do ex.coming down the scale,
sometimes using m,p,b.v,etc.
If there is a particular part of the music which is giving trouble then you can
use that as a warm up as well.
Hope this can be of use to you.
Norma
"sonsoflevi1 <paulwilson@r...> wrote:Good
morning people,
I'm new to this group. I find this group extremely helpful. Major
business goes on here and I'm glad. I'd like to know if anybody
knows of any excellent vocalises for choir warm ups? I realize that
a lot of times the warm up will vary with the type of song(s) you're
learning and the length of the practice but I'm just trying to gather
as much information as possible.
I'm also looking to see if anybody knows how to get soprano's to sing
fuller and less nasal. We have relatively a lot of them but the
tenor's (less than half number wise) are louder than they are.
One more thing. I have an alto in my choir (very strong) who seems
to be loosing her voice. She doesn't have nodules (specialist
checked) but it's raspy. What can I suggest to her to do? I'm
thinking about doing an analysis of her speaking and singing
techniques. I'm thinking about using the Candle technique as well.
I recommended that she go to a speech therapist. It
helped me.
Any thoughts?
Thanks.
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