As athletes are required to do warm up exercises before a race or a game, singers need to prepare their voices ahead of a rehearsal or performance. Singing warm up exercises gets the air flowing and relaxes your muscles to prepare for the harder strenuous activity to come. It’s perhaps the best way to prevent vocal fatigue and overuse damage. It could appear counterintuitive–more exercises to prevent overuse injury?

Yes. Your vocal folds are controlled through very small muscle groups, and once they’re warmed-up they’re more elastic, easier to make use of, and less prone to injury. Before beginning your singing warm up exercises, carry out some whole-body stretching and relaxation. A good exercise to begin with is the “rag doll”. Stand upright bending forward from your hips. Then allow your arms and head to droop and dangle for a little while.

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Follow that with a stretching exercise for correct posture alignment. Stand with your feet level on the floor, about hip-width apart, and your arms at your sides. Bring your arms swiftly up and across your chest in a circular fashion until they are above your head.

Now up onto your tiptoes, breath in deeply and continue to move your arms up. As you slowly breathe out, move your arms back toward your sides come to rest level on your feet. Try to keep the chest up and shoulders back, as they were at the top of the stretch, after bringing your arms down. You are now ready to begin singing.

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The first singing warm up exercise uses a method that goes by several names: buzz, bubble lips, lip roll, or lip trill. Exhale through puckered lips to generate a vibration, sounding a little bit like a power boat or perhaps a “raspberry”.

The buzz slide will be made amid three tones: the bass tone, which is up a fourth, and then back to the base. (do fa do) so in C major the notes would be C, F and C. You need to replicate this and after that move up a semi-tone each time. Perform this as well with the syllables “oo” and “ee” but the buzzing technique makes for you to use great breath support.

The next singing warm up exercise is the fifth-slide. Begin on the fifth tone with the syllable “wee” and slide downward to the base (so-do): in C major once more, it would be G, C. Do again on the equivalent tones with “zoo”, then move up a half-step and repeat, “wee” and “zoo” on  Ab and Db. Continue moving up with half-steps.

After that is the five-tone descending scale. Beginning on the fifth tone, descend stepwise to the base: so, fa, mi, re, do. Firstly do the syllable “na”, next “nay”, “noh”, and “noo”. Move up a half-step and replicate the scale on every syllable.

The fourth singing warm up exercise is a descending 8-tone scale (do, ti, la, so, fa, mi, re, do) on the syllable “noo”. Once more, move up a half-step with each repeat. You can also try further vowel sounds, such as “nah”, “nay”, “nee”, or “noh”, or use “m” as a substitute of “n” as the original consonant. Try to feel your mask, or higher resonance, as you execute this.

Chase that with a descending arpeggio: do, so, mi, do, on the syllable “nah”. Say again on “nay”, “nee”, “noh”, and “noo”, after that shift up by half steps and repeat on each syllable another time.

The final singing warm up exercise is the octave slide. Make use of the buzz and start on the base note; slide up an octave and back down to the base: do, do, do. Repeat on “oo”. Go up a half-step, do the buzz, and then “oo”. Carry on moving up with half-steps.