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Calentar la voz significa que ponemos en marcha la vibración de las cuerdas vocales con ejercicios suaves, que no obligan a la musculatura laríngea a hacer grandes esfuerzos. Para ello, los ejercicios de tracto semiocluido ( boca cerrada, trino de labios, r rulada, etc...) así como los ejercicios de resistencia aérea practicados con botella, agua y tubo, son ideales para despertar poco a poco el instrumento. Es conveniente hacer este tipo de calentamiento antes de empezar a cantar para que nuestra musculatura esté más flexible y podamos coordinar mejor todas las funciones que intervienen en la voz.

The best way to prepare your voice for the day is to first release any tension in the body since we know that tension in the body equals tension in the voice. From there start with a tuneless hum. Lips together, teeth apart-find a tone that sits in your chest resonator and then do a light hum for, at least, 3 minutes. This hum is just for you- it doesn't need to be out in the room. Then you can introduce some lip and tongue trills to warm up your speech articulators followed by sirens up and down your range, touching base with all the parts of your range so you know that throughout the day you will be able to express how you want. At the end of your day-warm down! Our voice is a muscle and needs its own kind of care.

Start every day with a morning practice of humming in the shower; any piece of music that comes to mind will do. Next (when you're out and dry), try scales and arpeggios on an 'ooo' vowel. If you get bored, sing (wordless, to 'ooo' only) any song that truly appeals to you. DO NOT JUDGE THE SOUND! Simply 'blow the instrument' for now.

I think it's all been said right here. I'm not teaching voice anymore but warmups are so important Doing warmups helped my students to train their ears as well.

Vocal warm-up is very important for singers, I usually tell my students not to sing without warming up their voices to avoid vocal issues.

One of the vocal warmups that works for my voice is - YAWNING. When I feel a strain or discomfort in my vocal cords, I just take some to yawn. This allows my throat and mouth to open, and the larynx to depress, causing my voice muscles to relax. When the voice muscles are relaxed, you'll be able to sing clear and rich high notes conveniently.

Another excellent and easy exercise that anyone can do for their vocal warm up is breathing! Inhaling through our nose and gently exhaling through our mouth can make a significant difference in our delivery. This breathing exercise also helps us to feel comfortable, which further allows us to present our vocals impressively. Breathing is one of the most, perhaps the most important exercise and habit we should use in helping us to execute our oral and vocal ability.

Expanding your repertoire in any creative art is essential. We easily fall into our 'safe zone', the place we know we sit really comfortably. However, we then begin to draw borders around ourselves, limiting our possibility. Be aware where you sit, but never stop pushing out those lines a little bit at a time to continue to challenge and grow.

Remember to check out the “talent” going up against you in the room and be sure by asking the right questions who the judges are and if they are related to any one auditioning beside you. To drive away competition from their relative because you could be more talented and sign brighter than their family member. So that NEGATIVE FEEDBACK might be given just to be a deterrent to you auditioning so that you would just leave before the actual selection process has been completed! That way part of “her” competition is already gone and ranks their family member higher within the “talent” that is still competing!

I am a creative and have gotten 'feedback' in a dance rehearsal that was so consistently negative and constant that I lost all trust in my ability to do the dance at all. It destroyed my confidence entirely. Feedback needs to be constructive-keeping in mind that the space has to continue to be a safe one, where the learner is inspired to try again. That is the job of the coach.