How to Warm Up For True Singing Freedom! (See my complete daily vocal warmup) NO Drills, NO Scales!
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- Опубліковано 4 лис 2019
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I've never been to fond of traditional vocal warmup routines. Choosing scales or sequences and practicing them with rigidity and a focus on time, pitch and support all at once seems to be self-defeating mixture that leads to lots of TENSION. Then, after the warmup is done, having trained with "singing well" as our focus, we carry that tension into our songs! Don't shoot yourself in the foot (or throat) while trying to warm up your voice. Join me for my daily warm up routine where the theme is "FLOPPINESS" :)
Your voice is in between Freddie Mercury and Matt Bellamy and my mom when I forgot to do the dishes.
your mom got to break free, or something?
Great tastes xD
Love you. Your getting out my scared singer secretly writing lyrics for years, here while cooking ❤️❤️❤️
lolllllllllll
I hear more Freddie but it’s all relative
Your warmup is like your body downloading the voice files haha
I’ve trained for YEARS and I’ve never experienced vocal freedom like this before! I sang notes I haven’t hit since college, and my belt was so effortless compared to before! Thank you so much!
This video is gold. I just learned more about my own voice in 20 minutes than in the last 20 years.
Thanks a million.
You’re welcome!
I could not relate to a comment more than this. I literally just learnt how to sing without tension after years of struggle.
I cannot overstate how valuable it is to me that you put yourself out here in complete vulnerability to demonstrate how all this works. Your courage is contagious, and it’s helping people. Thank you.
Also, 17:45 sounds like the lead up to a very intimate sensation.
That’s awesome! Thanks man.
@Music, raw. Men, you're so true about health and foods!! My body overreacts to a lot of things and sometimes I'm feeling miserable when I'm singing. Today is a good day fortunately! :-)
I do fasting also but in general "taking charge" of food for me is very difficult. I tend to cheat, but I pay a lot after...
I totally agree with you, OP. These are such weird techniques that I would NEVER teach in practice if I had the knowledge of the man in the video! 🤘🏾🤣
LMFAO intimate sensation hilarious
Very helpful indeed!
This warm up is like a meditation 👍
Came to say that 🧘🏼♂️
Tuning your voice and getting into music mode is definitely a meditative process.
This video has changed my singing forever. Ive always been naturally good at singing since i was 3 yrs old, and ive been singing in a band for 4 years. The way you explain things is so easy for me to understand and it explains a lot of stuff ive been doing right and stuff ive been doing wrong. My band was blown away when i came to practice and started doing some Paul McCartney stuff lol. My range was instantly improved after warming up like this and watching your mixed voice video. Apparently it was the right information for me because now i can sing some lower range stuff like Danzig all the way up to Queen and Coheed. I literally have not stopped singing for 2 weeks straight just singing stuff ive always been able to kind of sing but now im just nailing them tone and all. Big confidence booster for me man im going to do myself a favor and watch all your videos! Lol so much good info and ive been telling everyone i know who is interested in singing to check you out. I couldnt believe you only had 77k subscribers, you definitely deserve more!
This is great man! And thanks for spreading the word!!
Must be fun to live next door to this guy. But seriously, thanks Chris for sharing your nontraditional warm-up.
You are the first guy who's methods I tried and actually had some results. Thank you.
I feel the wind blow...proper stuck in my head now
This video is remarkable, maybe revolutionary. I used this before an open mic night and it transformed my approach to singing. I embraced all my voice does and took an overall approach to looseness to my singing. Yes there were some mistakes but my overall singing was free, easy, and expressive. I didn't get hung up on specific things. I found passages I used to struggle with are now EASY if you allow your voice ...DONT force!! Yes. Great. Focus on his words here as much as the singing. This video is a blessing to me.
A word "floppiness..." I immediately clicked subscribe lol
Doing this along with you. So much more fun that traditional warm ups, plus I'm getting plenty of laughs as my dog is giving me the most peculiar looks and rawring along with me! Thank you :)
I’ve watched probably dozens of hours of singing lesson videos and taken singing lessons. You sir, in this video, single-handedly helped me find my head voice in a way I’ve never felt. I literally didn’t know I had a head/mixed voice capability until I was just messing around trying the things you did in this video. Like I actually added distortion/growling up there and everything! Crazy, unconventional but in the best way.
LOVE SEEING comments like this! So glad you've been helped!
The warm up looks as fun as singing tbh
It is! :)
I love how authentic these videos are. I really love the real ness and they do inspire me and keep me from trying to hard to perfect at first
...hi dear Chris... ...I'll tell you something... ...I've (very carefully) been doing something really similar to you, since the 90's... ...and you validate this method, so I'm very happy for this... ...I used Sheila Shandra music (CD "Quiet", for instans, 1988) 🎼🎶🎼 for it... ...it becomes really very natural and, as you say, "floppy"... ...and my voice became prettier and prettier... ...I'll say it again, I love your teaching style... ...(& not only your teaching style, I must explain)... ...indeed...
💕🕊️🎼🎶🎸🎤🕊️🎤🎸🎶🎼🕊️💕
I keep coming back to this video before a gig.
It's a great cure for all my Impostor Syndrome-symptoms... felt it creeping through the last few days, my thraot blocking out and doubting myself every step of the way...
I can cope again now.
So thanks again...and again!
HOLLY COW! I watched this, and... POW! I did the warmups, and I sung amazingly after doing so. I usually warm up my voice by jumping in to powerful mixed voice straight off. but after doing this exercise routine JUST ONECE! my voice, my singing, and my mind just felt free. my headvoice register has been a weak point in my singing for a long time. but not any more. I feel like I have so much control over my voice now, and I can easily transition through high falsetto to mid/low grit singing. before, I would try warming up with powerful mixed voice, and my transitioning between soft falsetto and grit was sudden, and my soft singing was too quiet and hard to control. now I can easily (with control, and smooth transition) hit soft, high, soaring angelic sing, to powerful and emotion filled low/mid gritty singing.
TLDR: it is like I unlocked a hidden power. I have more control over my voice.
what i really love about Chris is that he shows you that when you study it might not sound perfect and gracious eheheheh keep it up Chris.
I’ve learned more from Chris’s first video I watched than the hours of videos I watched prior. Great stuff 👍
Absolutely love the Jeff Buckley-esque quality of your upper register vibrato.
i only know Keith Buckley but i will google Jeff !
oh shit he´s fucking dead already
I love this and I can't wait to try it! (Once my husband leaves lol). Traditional vocal Warm ups expect perfection and basically that you're already warmed up in order to do them.
Yes!!! That’s how I feel about them too!
@@chrisliepe I agree and my vocal teachers attempt at perfection locks me into analysis paralysis and shackles my mind my voice my growth. You set me free.
I came here to refamiliarize myself with a more formal warm-up approach than what I've generally been doing... And then I find that my approach has been just fine.
But wait, there's more! I learned some important things to change also!!
Thank you very much Sir. Instant Fan!
Best vocal coach on the web! PERIOD.
Chris I cannot overstate how useful this video has been for me. I'm always in a dark room - bar cellar/basement before every show and it's stopped my voice becoming exhausted and is much more powerful and clearer. Thank you so much.
Thankyou Chris for your vulnerability and transparency. I love your intelligent, practical, intuitive, creative approach. Thankyou for this gift, it works a treat.
You're so welcome!
It's so comforting for me to hear another male with my tenor register who enjoys working in his head voice. That's how I used to warm up when I was able to sing Chris Cornell's master pieces Badmotorfinger and Superuknown back to back when I was 25. You inspire me to try to retrieve those types of notes that i've been afraid of for a long time. I'm 46 years old so I only have a few years left to play in this register.
I am 53 limit your alcohol and don’t smoke and dance around c5 to g5 with agility and power. Check your testosterone level and if it’s low go get shots
i have seen great improvement over the days i have used this warm up…. thank you
i’ve watched this a couple times now and i am absolutely blown away. i love how meditational this is as well. i can literally hear that you haven’t got any tension and i’ve never watched a video like this before. woooow i’m speechless. i’m so motivated now jesus i have to sleep at some point ahhahahah oh no
edit: it feels like i’m listening to jeff buckley
edit no.2: i’m gonna listen to jeff buckley now
this is literal gold because it actually helped me yesterday and just now too, my voice even grew a bit more on the range.
Thank you for sharing your insights Chris. This acknowledges my personal thoughts on warming up. Im used to warming up the classic way but I always feel like my body takes more time to wake up when practicing through scales. It’s like I’m forcing myself when producing counterintuitive sounds. I prefer warming up by following where my body leads me. It also makes warming up much more fun. As a female vocalist I practice intentional vocal workouts on a daily basis (2 rest days). So good warmup and cool down is essential. Now that I know the intuitive warming up is ok, Im going to use it more.
I've signed an event for 20 years screaming my freaking head off not known any of these things at all. I am totally amazed at the things that you've shown me. Thanks Chris
This benefits me so much more than the scale! It helps the singing and screaming, makes it easier to engage my head voice, and gain complete control! Thanks man
That’s awesome to hear!
This is called a recording session for Yoko Ono.
ha
I feel like you could also be an excellent yoga teacher
:) Just you wait :)
The thing that help me warm up is singing some of my favorite songs for 10 minutes
I’m working still on not caring what my neighbors think when i’m making these noises. When they start slamming doors downstairs I can’t help but wonder if it’s passive aggressive shut the heck up door slamming. I imagine its similar to your neighbor learning the trumpet or violin. 😅
I’ve noticed the times I have just messed around like this then tried to sing something I was way better, you can really works kinks out and feel where your tension is. It’s really really really helpful, very good advice.
Bono improvising at a stadium show starts around the eight-minute mark
3:20 The way you sound reminds me of an angry cat lol 😂
Great advice tho! Your video on how to get proper cord closure and how to feel the stomach muscles (poop muscles) has helped me tremendously! Thank you for teaching us!
I love your technique. It’s a lot better than the traditional method.
Relearning my break is something that has been very frustrating to me so it's really great/interesting to hear that this is something I should expect as part of warming up
Confidence is the deal here folks
Since MCR seem to be back can we look forward to a video on how Gerard Way screamed back on their first album or just his vocal style in general?
This is tremendously helpful. My range is a little over 4 octaves, and I belt and scream over the whole range, so being able to warm up my whole range evenly has always been a challenge
Awesome!
I too refuse to warm up utilizing scales. Mostly because it's mind numbingly boring, but I agree about the inherent likelihood of introducing tension.
I'm a Bass/Baritone that has a lifetime love of Rock and Metal, so I've spent the majority of my life developing my Falsetto range (with controllable levels of Grit) so that I could roughly imitate my favorite singers.
In the last year, I've learned to access Mix and am working on strengthening my newly discovered Belt ability.
I warm up in a similar fashion as you, Chris. But, do it to music throughout. I start by lightly humming along with the Bass line except an octave higher and slowly increase my volume. As that gets warm I'll throw it down and sing with the Bass. Once that's good, I'll go back to light humming in low to mid Falsetto range either with the singer or the guitar, again, slowly increasing the volume and VERY SLOWLY adding in Grit. Usually at this point I'm pretty good to go; takes 8-10 songs or 30-50 minutes from a cold start. On days when I know I either have a gig or rehearsal, I'll hum along with songs most of the day. From there, the warm up can take as little as 10-15 minutes.
I've had people ask after hearing me sing with heavy Grit in high Falsetto how I don't have chord damage. I tell them that apparently I'm doing it right, because I've been singing that way since the late Eighties. 🤘🏼🔥🤘🏼🔥
11:17 YESS!! I notice that when I sing in chest voice or use chest voice, I kind of refresh the vocal fry and it adds me the power to sing high notes if i 'ran out' of the voice texture when singing quietly high notes using the mixed voice technique
And also I feel this vocal fry texture the most in the mornings
This is the best warm up ever.. seriously. Thank you!
So welcome!
Been here since near the beginning of this channel and mixing this with scale exercises has brought me visible improvement. Chris for best vocal coach lol ✊
I'm now paying attention to my vocal chords to use the top side of vocal chords and my throat doesn't get dry and scratchy feeling and the lower push let's me sing out when going to higher range like in the song "" WILDFIRE "" by Michael Murphy THANK YOU!! and I use the yodel style for warm up and your right on breaking up/ cracking / squawking working thru to smoothness for about 10 minutes I'm a OTR DRIVER and have the privacy to not ex intimidated by anyone lol a little Frye is very helpful THANK YOU AGAIN wish I could spend a hour PERSONALLY bet you could really make me sound good I'm just karaoke but used to do some songs well 20 years ago now being 60 I see if you exercise your vocal chords your voice really doesn't change as critical as a person thinks lol
This warm-up has completed changed the complexion of voice, amazing! Thank you Chris! 🤜🤛
Great to hear!
Very good examples of how to look for natural voice.
You rock! Thanks now I got to unlearn a whole bunch of junk! Thank you!
Best vocal tuition on UA-cam!
I know I sound corny with all of my comments but damn this exercise is so freeing and every time I do it I sing with more control!! Going to come back and post a comment once I put up my UA-cam cover for any feedback 👍
This guy is the best teacher I have ever seen 👏👏
Man, you helped me so much! Due my anxiety disorder I almost lost my high notes in the voice. Now I learned something new how to relax my singing muscles and sing with freedom. Huge thanks!
Absolutely stunning and so generous to demonstrate such a great warm up session. Loved it. Its kind of trip you put me to.
Glad you enjoyed it!
great and insightful warm-up! This makes so much more sense than other warm-up videos that imply "just do it, just make these sounds and hit these notes!"...
Thanks! Now all i have to figure is how do i try this without angering the neighbors xD
ive found my mixed voice, thank sir, your vid helped me a lot.
I would experiment with my voice and just let it be. And when I got to scales, there is soooo much tension in my voice. Lol TYSM! This is sooo helpful
This was unintentionally a meditating video. Thanks for the cool tutorial tho. I'm just starting to sing and you teachings help ALOT
Even your warmups sound good hahaha by far the best all around coach on UA-cam! Thank you so much for the content. I've been looking for good information on mix voice and support and I always see the same people on UA-cam who all say the same thing and then sell a course that still doesn't have the answers. You my friend are just giving us this info and it all makes sense. Very trustworthy and honest. Keep up the good work.❤️ Notifications on
I've only seen two of your videos and part of this one, but my voice already sounds so incredible. Thank you so much for showing me and so many others such amazing tips!
I like to say "Juuuuustin Hawkings rides aaagaaaaaaaiin....againnnn" several times 😂
Great warm up--thank you!
you are amazinggggg, thank youuuuu
Absolutely fantastic content, I'm so happy I've found your channel.
Thanks fo all your videos !
Loose and free, relaxed and experimental. Cool
Going through each video to start my day :P
Love this warm up. Very helpful.
I am very very very glad I have found this channel!!! Everything seems so easy to understand and follow!
wow, i love this for two more reasons! 1. it’s a more intuitive way of discovering and allowing one’s voice to just be. much more enjoyable! 2. scales hit on specific frequencies but this allows one’s voice to roll through the frequencies in between. it’s cool! thank you so much! 🙏
Beautiful. Truly grateful for this channel. Much Love!
Love it! its like meditation!!
omg, that's just awesome.
This was fantastic and I had so much fun doing this warm up
1:58 idk i bookmarked it just cus its beautiful
17:26 wow
wow this is a fabulous technique! congrats man
What a great video! Thanks Chris.
Great video, thanks for sharing
This video is awesome. Thank You
Enjoying your videos
Another golden video... damn useful
Man, thanks universe! i found your videos !
Very clearly and informative lessons, one of the best channels of that kind !!!
I followed you in that warm up and it was the best one I have ever had. That is for sure my new warm up routine. Thanks man!
I’ve been looking at youtube singing lessons for 4 years now and you are by far the most interesting teacher outthere for me. And I insist on the « for me » because of all the youtube teachers, you’re the one I’m the closest singing style wise. Therefore, an advice for all the young singers out there : find your teacher that can give you the right advices. Though yours seem to be adaptable and very useful for everyone 😂
I can’t say enough how much this helped me
Thank you Chris!
You, sir, are awesome and incredibly helpful. Thanks!
Man, I absolutely love your approach. You're awesome. Please keep doing what you do. I'll keep learning.
This guy is awesome, extremely unique!
Wow. It so relaxing afterwards
Chris, thank you for helping me find my voice again!!!
Brother I couldn't agree more with everything you said here about warm ups. This is precisely how I do my warm ups and it's something I also encourage to my students as well. Keep up the good work Chris. God bless you sir😀😀🤘🤘🤘✌
Wow, simply phenomenal.
Yay I found the warm up video. Thanks!!
Honestly a lot of this is just good advice for life, and for learning new things in general. Ease into things without judgment. Explore and experiment without shame. Frequently reassess where you are and don’t be afraid to follow new threads if they present themselves. Push yourself gently, gradually and without excessive strain. I feel like you can apply that to a lot of things and I’m going to do my best to take it to heart
Unrelated to the topic but, how to do the 'fry scream'
I'm not talking about grit, but a full on powerful fry scream
lol got a heart but no answer
This is the best explanation about warm up I have ever seen