[Brigantine]

I'm looking for some new vocal warm-ups to do with a community theater. We always do the same ones, and I want to start a new trend.
If you could post your favorites, or direct me to a link that has some good ones, I'd appreciate it! Thanks!

[pinkstiletto510]

I love doing-
1-3-5-8(all in quarter notes)7-8-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1(8th or 16th notes)
on vowel of choice, or alternating

as a consonant warmup- 'unique new york' going up in half steps after each phrase

(to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic)
as one black bear backed up the bank the other black bear backed down x4
glory, glory, how peculiar, glory glory how peculiar, glory glory how peculiar
as one black bear..... (and so on)
or a variation-
one black beetle bled blue-black blood the other black beetle bled blue

[godspizzle56]

arpegios...

i see the moOoOoOoOoOn

and Bella SenOra.

does anyone else know these?

they rock.

im slap happy right now.

apologies.

[Jenko]

[glh199]

Sing the words "many men" to the tune of the William Tell overture (many men, many men, many men men men....)
Once you've mastered that, try singing "ugly ed" - even harder!

Sing "12345" to the tune of Knees up Mother Brown - you'll end up starting on a different number everytime (eg. 2nd time starts 45123), its rather tricky so you want to practise before you try and teach people.

Gemma

[wishiwuzfamous]

Well, our choir at school has some kinda interesting ones I suppose...

Major scale on numbers: 1,121,12321,1234321,123454321,12345654321,1234567654321,123456787654321,8,878,87678,8765678,876545678,87654345678,8765432345678,876543212345678 we do it in a round, and it gets pretty hard, with like, six groups doing it!

We also do arpeggios: What are you doing tonight
I love to sing
and a bunch of other ones that I can't think of right now...

Viva la musica-I like this one-anyone know it?

bumble bee-scale in thirds

and we do our chormatic scales on Mary Had A Little Lamb

and my absolute least favorite EVER- octave leaps!

hope these help you!

[pinkstiletto510]

[wishiwuzfamous]

in reply to ^, we sometimes do it on sofege, but ususally numbers. For our County Honor Choir this year, we did it on sofege, but then our director, the lovely and talented Dr. Anna Hamre, would say something along the lines of, "Now do it again, but this time, leave out Mi." and then again, "Ok, now do it one more time, but now leave out Mi and Sol" So that was pretty challenging actually. But we all had it down in a week!~

[AllyDiva87]

Heh i've never done choir before. I just learned about the sofedge recently it's great cause it goes hand in hand with my piano and helps me remember my scales to play on the piano. I like doing the siren one. It's fun hehe.

[Gwen]

Well, I have a few for pronunciation, though the first one is spoken rather than sung...
"Eugene you need unique New York"

and this I know has a tune to it, and goes up in a chromatic scale-I don't know wether you've done it or not...
"Many mumbling mice are making midnight music in the moonlight, mighty nice."
Good luck!
Gwen

[Kaaatrina]

[MHoV]

the ABCs -- scale C-G and back down, up, down,up, down, G, C

[renthead29]

[Baker]

I'm in Godspell, and as we don't have an official warmup, we all sit in our green room and make up warm ups as we go.

Singing Zip-a-dee-doo-dah up the scale. For example:

"Zip a dee doo dah, zip a dee day, my oh my what a wonderful day, plenty of sunshine headed my way, zip a dee doo dah, zip a dee day." Then go up a half-step and repeat.

We also sang through the entire song of "Supercalifragelisticexpialidocious," good for warming up with consonants and such.

Also, for the major scale (when you say 1 you sing do, when you say 2 you sing re, when you say 3 you sing mi, and so on):

1 2 3 4 5
5 4 3 2 1
1 5 4 5 3 5 2 5 1 5 4 5 3 2 1
1 5 4 5 3 5 2 5 1 5 4 5 6 7 8

Another tongue twister my friend taught us:

"I know New York, I need New York, I know I need unique New York."

Edit: Thought of one more!

Basses: (on the bottom note of the chord) Call nine-one-one (hold)
Tenors: (while the basses are holding, on the top note of the chord) Call nine-one-one (hold)
Altos: (while the basses and tenors are holding, on the middle note of the chord) Call nine-one-one (hold)
Sopranos: (while basses, altos, and tenors are holding, on the top note of the chord) Call nine-one-one (hold)
All: Me-oh-me-oh-me-oh my! (on my go up a halfstep)

It's kind of a hard one to explain...

[Music08Man]

We do a bunch of diffeerent ones..... but some of them are kind of hard to explain.

umm....there's:

Do Mi Re Fa Mi Sol Fa Re Mi Do Ti Re Do
up..................& down..........................


has anyone done "Chester Cheetah Chews A Chunk of Cheap Cheddar Cheese"

or sometimes we do " I like to eat, eat, eat, apples and bananas" and change the vowel sounds

or...

"For your gracious blessings, for your living for your living word. For your love and kindness, we give thanks oh, Lord."

[Luc]

"Maybe my mommy may go to Miami or maybe my mommy may not." Stay on one note the whole time, and then move up a semi-tone each time.

[Cake_in_Song]

I always start with major and minor triads and dominant and diminished sevenths. Then I fill in the rest of my fifteen minutes (that's how long I warm up for) with whatever excercises I feel like. Some of my favourites are:
-the first one pinkstiletto described (1 3 5 8, etc)
-modes (Do to Do, Re to Re, Me to Me, etc)
- 1 3 5 8 10 12 11 9 7 5 3 1 repeated twice in one breath
- 1 3 2 4 3 5 4 6 5 7 6 8 7 9 8 10 8 9 7 8 6 7 5 6 4 5 3 4 2 1.
- some vowel excercises from a book my singing teacher gave me

I always finish by singing through my entire range, seeing if I can expand, but never pushing a top or bottom note. I'm very meticulous about warming up for the correct period of time, but I honestly do feel the benefits. My throat is naturally quite mucus-y and it takes some serious warming up to burn through all the gunk.

[renthead29]

My favorite one is "My mother makes me mash my m&ms" going up in the scale

[wtfchuck]

One Pronunciation one my school does is "The Lips, the teeth, the tip of the tongue" going up your entire range and holding on your highest note. and then "nibbly noodles" going down your entire range and holding at the bottom.

We also do Octave Leaps

and our singing teacher has an obsession with the first two lines of "Somewhere over the rainbow" whilst constantly stressing "not rover" to help with our Pronunciation.

[Nettik]

Usually, we all do speaking warm-ups and singing warmups.

Speaking warm-ups are just spoken, for example:
Red leather, yellow leather
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Mommy makes me mash my M+Ms

Then singing warmups are usually singing Disney songs or any songs we all know that aren't in the show. We usually sing for up to an hour before the show, so we're all warmed up by the time we go on.

[Vice]

I can never remember the whole of the one that my teacher uses...

"I sit in solumn silence on a dole, dark dock..." I can't remember the rest.

[jayrad]

Like what Cake said, we also do thirds on solfege, sometimes having the first note of a pair being a solfege word and then the second note being the number. Along with that, we'll usually do triplets up and down on solfege in a round.

Do-Mi Re-Fa Mi-Sol Fa-La Sol-Ti La-Do Ti-Re Do Do-La Ti-Sol La-Fa Sol-Me Fa-Re Me-Do Re-Ti Do

A few designated warm-up songs like Siyahamba and Thuma Mina.

Then occasionally some four-part note work. Each section is given a note and then hold it for three counts and on the fourth count slide either up or down a half-step. Helps to get us to sing as an ensemble and listen to each other.

[ActingDude17]