VOICE TRAINING EXERCISES
A Dozen Voice Training Exercises Your vocal cords are muscles, and like any muscles they can become tired and damaged. The following exercises have been devised and compiled by my friend and singing teacher, Andrea, and typed up by me with various enhancements and addition of theory. The first two exercises are to loosen off the muscles in the next, around the vocal cords. 1. Starting with your tongue on the RHS of your mouth, make a figure of 8, so that your tongue goes across your top teeth, to the middle, then crosses to the bottom teeth, along to the LHS of your mouth, then, up, and across the top. Keep your mouth closed for this. 2. Put the tip of your tongue behind your bottom set of front teeth. Let your jaw drop and gently push out your tongue. Repeat a few times. The following exercises are mainly for exploring your natural range, and should be tried at different pitches, preferable gently undulating pitches: 3. Ga-ga! - Make baby noises up and down randomly within ...