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How many of you go through a routine of vocal warmups? If so, how often?

Tom Greenlee · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 9:56 am Post subject:

My vocal warmups consist of about an hour every morning hacking up pieces of my lung from smoking the day before......I find this very helpful especially combined with smoking a cigarette and drinking strong black coffee. I'm going to write a book praising the effectiveness of my vocal warm up technique. Laugh

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Bailey · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:51 am Post subject:

Sometimes I'll warm up the pipes by singing the chorus from Blue Moon, by The Marcels.

blue blue blue blue moon... dit dit dit dit dit... blue blue blue blue moon...
dit dit dit dit dit... blue blue blue blue moon... dit dit dit dit dit...
ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba... ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba... danga dang dang...
dinga dong ding blue moon...
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dhouston67 · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 11:25 am Post subject:

During the run of the last play I was in, we'd all gather around (four of us) and recite this bit from the Mikado:

To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,
In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!

Not terribly uplifting, but it gets the jaws moving.
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Try this one from Rodney Saulsberry....

Fling flog float a frog
Flag a flirt flown far
Flick a flack fly a flap
Flight fling flew floor star
Flower fire forty fiver
four five free fought few
Freight fright freak fight
Frank flip flop fly flew

I need a drink just typing it......

Tom Greenlee · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 2:19 pm Post subject:

damn man....by the time you say that a couple times....your lips will be too tired to do the actual spots. Shocked

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Frank F · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 2:48 pm Post subject:

Tom Greenlee · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 2:55 pm Post subject:

yes you did Frank....and I've seen the pic to prove it! hahahaha
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Jowillie · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 5:22 pm Post subject:

I really like this one:
http://www.voiceover-talent.com/VoiceoverExercises.htm#Top

You may recognize her.

Gp · Guest

I know there are a lot of vocal exercises out there.....I was curious if anyone was actually doing them.....I probably should.....I don't....but I probably should.

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I too use Connie's exercises!
Thanks Connie!

ConnieTerwilliger · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:42 pm Post subject:

I am not worthy...

Just did a VO workout with my friend Beverly Bremers out of Orange County - and will ask her if I can add some of her warm up exercises to my pages.

The quickest warm up I know is to count to 25 slowly and over enunciate.

If you don't warm up ahead of time, you will have to stop in mid-session and do SOMETHING!
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tackerman · Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 3:43 am Post subject:

I crank up the stereo on my drive to work @ 2 am and sing along. I'm usually warmed up and almost awake by the time I get there.

Jowillie · Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:19 am Post subject:

Actually, I follow the "Harpo Marx theory for practice"--
When Zeppo told him he needed to practice piano for the big show, Harpo replied, "I'a practica everyday. I soaka my hands in warm water for a thirty minutes everya day."

I soaka my tounge in warm fluids every day.

Rob Ellis · M&M Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 2385 Location: Detroit

"The Art of Voice Acting" has some good tongue twisters and warm-ups. Ditto for "Voice and the Actor" by Cicely Berry, and there are tongue-twister websites all over the internet. I do tongue twisters (with a cork between my teeth) every day, and also the breathing exercises from "Voice and the Actor"....being a fitness/workout devotee, I figure it's no differenct when it comes to your voice and vocal performance.