How to Sing for Artists

Warm up your body before singing with a simple yoga sun salutation, stretch the neck and shoulders, hydrate, and focus on breath, core, and diaphragmatic support.

Explore breath support for singing, emphasizing natural, relaxed breathing and the three components: inhalation, core engagement, and exhalation. Return to core principles to avoid bad habits.

Develop breath support for singing by mastering a relaxed belly breath, neutral shoulders, and natural inhalation. Practice 360-degree breathing and exhalation emphasis to improve control, posture, and vocal resonance.

Engage the core to create air compression between the abs and vocal folds for a stronger, controlled singing tone. Use 45-degree leaning or planks to feel the power.

Master the rate of exhalation, the final part of breath support, to sing with power without overexhaling. Practice steady exhalation using hissing and straw exercises to maintain a connected tone.

Explore range and registration by examining anatomy, tessitura, and chest, head, and mix registers. Practice a five-tone scale to identify your vocal bucket and choose suitable material.

Explore your vocal range from base to soprano, identify your voice type, and embrace all ranges as you prepare to expand your reach in future exercises.

Expand your low chest voice range with the Baby Bumble Bee exercise, using plosive B and bottle stop to access the usable lower register from middle C to E flat.

Grow your upper head voice range with open-throat technique and daily exercises, avoiding whistle register and false vocal folds. Use a Yorty breath to stay open and improve high notes.

Explore tips to maintain a healthy voice through diet, including an elimination diet, hydration, sleep, warm-ups, breathing, and speaking-voice health.

Explore lip trill warm-ups to relax the lips, enunciate lyrics clearly, and use back pressure from semi-occluded airflow to exercise the vocal cords gently.

Warm up your lips and tongue with tongue twisters, focusing on clear enunciation. Sing the alphabet on a five-tone scale to train precise articulation and invite cross-language practice.

Maintain an upright, supported posture from the core, whether seated or standing, with neutral chin, relaxed shoulders, and a stable, straight spine to enable breath and tone.

Maximize vocal resonance by opening the mouth wider and maintaining two-finger space between the teeth, while practicing jaw drop and jaw stability in front of a mirror.

Learn to consciously activate the soft palate to maximize resonance by raising it through yawning and smiling. Compare neutral and raised placements during a scale exercise to hear tone changes.

Learn to optimize resonance by keeping the tongue flat against the bottom and free of tension, with two tongue and neck warm-up exercises, including a towel pull and gargling water.

Explore the larynx position and how keeping a relaxed, open throat and a lowered voice box helps you access higher chest-voice belt, ease transitions to mix and head voice.

Practice the dopey bow to push the larynx down and keep the throat open. Train your voice to stay low in the larynx and avoid squeezing on higher notes.

Learn to produce a crying voice through exercises that lower the larynx and open the throat, choosing techniques that resonate and feel easy to perform.

Explore semi-occluded vocal exercises to build vocal health and strength by partially blocking airflow, creating back pressure that promotes healthy vocal cord vibration.

Master lip trill by exhaling as the lips flap, balancing tone and flap for a relaxed voice. Keep mouth relaxed, hum first, and use cheek weight to ease the trill.

Practice lip drill exercises with a one-and-a-half octave arpeggio, starting in a mid range and staying within your comfortable vocal range for effective warm-ups.

Practice consonant sounds, including v and h, with octave arpeggio exercises to build vocal endurance. Balance intensity with the backstop effect, protecting the voice and balancing compression and force.

Learn to hum with lip weight and closure to create back pressure, explore octave exercises, and tailor humming practice for both male and low female voices.

Explore semi occluded vocal tract exercises with a straw to balance breath support, extend the vocal tract, and strengthen abdominal engagement for controlled exhalation.

Practice singing straw phonation to warm up quietly by guiding air through a sealed straw, adjust straw diameter for resonance, and use thirds and fifths to balance support.

Master recognizing and reproducing all intervals through guided exercises and by building a personalized song chart with familiar song associations for ascending and descending intervals.

Practice intervals using a numbers game, climbing a scale like a ladder from one to eight and back, with ascending, descending, skips, and a movement-based numbers dance.

Identify intervals by ear in an interval recognition quiz, using song cues to name ascending and descending intervals such as major sixth, minor third, tritone, and octave, with practice.

Explore the basics of phrasing in singing, linking rhythm, tempo, and beat to how you shape lyrics and melody. Practice exercises to count rhythm and rubato.

Practice a basic eight-beat counting exercise on an octave scale using quarter notes, then insert rests to fit the remaining notes and explore how lyrics scan within the measure.

Explore how to phrase songs by adjusting beat position, from on beat to behind the beat, and using back phrasing with legato or staccato delivery, space, dynamics, and riffs.

Listen to admired singers, imitate their riffs, and break them into small, slowed-down chunks mapped on piano; add accents and balance before increasing tempo to master riffs and runs.

Explore riffs and runs and develop vocal agility through fast moving pitches and scale exercises. Practice scale ascents/descents and longer scales, while applying tasteful restraint to sound advanced and professional.

Practice classical and blues riffs and runs using turn figures and scale patterns, with breath control and a countdown prompt. Slow them down and break into chunks to master phrases.

Master belting fundamentals by balancing chest and head voice, learning to blend into a smooth bridge, and strengthening head voice to extend your belt into higher ranges.

Master belting chest voice with healthy technique, keeping an open throat and relaxed larynx to sustain high notes. Transition smoothly to head voice and strengthen resonance across your range.

Practice sirens and slides to figure out intensity while transitioning through chest voice coordination without slipping. Descend head voice into chest voice with wah-wah arpeggios to keep controlled mixed voice.

Increase volume in the head voice belt by engaging the core, bringing cords together, and singing into the nasal pharynx for a powerful, forward belt that matches upper chest voice.

Develop nasopharyngeal resonance to power head voice projection with a bright, forward nasal twang. Learn ng/ing exercise cues and Wicked Witch voice techniques to boost high-range clarity and volume.

Discover core activation techniques for singing power, including squats and planks to engage the core and support high notes, with resonance focus by leaning and using the woo voice.

Master head voice belt by shaping a nasal pharyngeal and nasopharyngeal sound into a rounder, darker tone, and open your mouth to add resonance.

Choose material you emotionally connect with and adapt it to your voice. Use dynamic range and authentic interpretation to engage the audience.

Develop a complete vocal warm-up to strengthen the diaphragm and breath support through five straw-assisted exercises, focusing on controlled exhalation, sustained pitch, and interval work.

Perform a quick two-minute vocal warm up using a singing straw, with slides over fits and a one and a half after lift travel to prepare your voice for singing.

Practice a five-minute vocal warm-up routine with five exercises, including an occluded hum, jaw-drop, a descending scale, chest-voice work, cheerleader woo, and ghostly lulu loose.

Practice this complete 20-minute daily vocal warm-up routine to improve your singing voice with diaphragm activation, lip/tongue coordination, semi-occluded exercises, head-to-chest voice transitions, sirens, and a cooldown.

Thank you for joining this course and embracing your singing journey ahead. Reach out with questions or for one-on-one private vocal coaching via email or social media.