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Blend acappella12/11/2023 ![]() ![]() If you run a mixed group, have sops stop on 8 tenors on 6 altos on 4, basses on 2. Also great for working on intonation and tuning. Really opens up the tone and gets a nice lift in the soft pallet. Have them switch to a "NG" sound hold that for a second and then have them resolve down (t1 stay on 8, t2 go to 5, baris to 3, bass to 1) and switch to a nice mezzoforte with lots of breath supporting it. Have the tenor ones hold 8, T2s hold 6 baritones hold 4, basses hold 2(you can have a bass drop down to the 5 below the orignal note for fun if you want!). Then without stopping repeat the top note and come down the scale. 1 2 ti(ti is easier to say than three) 4 5 6 7 8. On numbers or solfege, sing up the scale. Say you are starting on C#(I like avoiding C and F in warm ups, they are weird for intonation if you are using a piano). It's about feeling a relaxed free sensation in the throat and larynx, not showing off what a strong falsetto >you have.Īlso for raising soft pallet, here's a fun exercise. Also when they are singing up a little higher, they DO NOT want to push to make the loudest strongest sound they can. It's important that they stay in their falsetto as long as possible on the way down, as the goal is to incorporate headvoice into their chest voice. For example, on an ooo, just VERY LIGHT but supported, go from F G A G F then up one or two, and then back down until everyone is back in chest register. Only particularly tired days I'll sometimes have people do 15 push ups or jumping jacks(not in a slave driver way haha, just tell em it's to get blood pumping and >energy levels kicked up).Īlso doing some light falsetto work is great too. ![]() Physical activity also works really well. Lip buzzing from C to G to C(or whatever key you are in) is pretty good for getting air moving. I'm all about engaging the breath when singing. This will help align many vowels at once, and helps you practice more difficult harmonies. This not only helps with vowels and tuning, but helps the group feel the pulse >together.Īnother exercise we used was to select a line of text from a song and divide the group to sing it on scale degrees 1, 2, and 4. Have the baritones/tenors go up to a third or fifth above, perhaps the altos go down to the fifth of the chord, first sopranos can go up a third, etc. As you proceed, also divide the group into more pitches. We used the syllable "dah." Once that is in tune, shorten the note values on each beat, starting with two eights, then triplet eights, then four sixteenths, etc. Start off in unison (or perhaps an octave if you are a mixed group) and sing quarter notes on beats 1 and 3 of a 4-beat measure. ![]() Here are a couple exercises we used in my group that worked really well. If we get a bunch, I'll re-edit this post and put them in list form.Įdit: I'll work on better formatting below when I get free time later. I've collected the warm-ups suggested in past /r/acappella posts and put them below, please share any of your warmups any that haven't been said. I feel like we're not getting anything from doing them. My group usually cycles through the same warm-ups every single time. I think we should start using this sub to collaborate on techniques and other good habits for a cappella groups! Let's start with warm-ups & exercises. ![]()
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