Vocal Exercises, why we wanna do em?

Vocal exercise can be really boring, singing scales, patterns, nonsense syllables. Why are they important? there are many reasons for doing vocal exercises.

First and most important, doing vocal exercises will help protect your vocal instrument.
You see, our vocal instrument needs to be taken care of very carefully, if we abuse it, then it will be damaged for sure and the cost of that for singers is unimaginable. Singing for a long periode of time without proper warm up is like doing gymnastics without stretching, a sure fire way to hurt yourself.

Second, it will improve our hearing, thus improving our control of pitch.
Holding a steady long note, singing scales up and down, diatonics, chromatics, arpeggios, bending notes, are some of the ways you can do to improve your hearing and pitch control, especially when you do them with the help of a piano. It's like a "note calibration".

Third, it will train our vocal muscles improving our breathing, diction, and endurance.
Some vocal exercises will focus on training our diaphragm muscles, some will target out mouth and tounge, and of course vocal exercises train our overall vocal muscles, giving them more power and endurance. Imagine a professional basketball NBA player without a proper fitness training, he/she will not be able to play for even one set.

Fourth, it will "make" your voice.
If you do your exercises properly and make it as a daily routine, your vocal range will stretch, you'll have very nice full tone on each high and low edge of your range, you will sing effortless, because the vocal technique is now automatic, so you'll be able to focus more on something else like lyrics handling and expression.

Those are just a few reasons to do vocal exercises, really, if you're serious about singing, you WANT to do vocal exercise. Click here for some vocal exercise examples.

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