Warming+up+your+choir


 * Vocal Warm Ups **

** To get the most out of any choir, all rehearsals should begin with a variety of vocal warm-ups. **

** 1. **** Always start your rehearsal with a warm-up exercise, with the students standing up. ** ** 2. **** Have high expectations and insist on concentration. ** ** 3. **** Start with a simple descending scale all in one breath. ** ** 4. **** Practise the breath taken prior to the first sound made. ** ** 5. **** Move from simple exercises to more demanding ones that demand a specific vocal skill-attack, diction or phrase for example. ** ** 6. **** Extend the exercises into higher keys. ** ** 7. **** Decide which specific section in your repertoire needs attention and select an exercise that matches the skill required, for example semi-quaver passages. ** ** 8. **** Plan your warm up exercises over a period of time to develop specific points-tone one term or tessitura another for example. ** ** 9. **** Encourage the choir to continue and develop some of the exercises at home. ** ** 10. **** Warm your choir up with some of the exercises prior to the concert to focus the mind and voice. **