I've been using g your tenor warmups for a few years now, I start doing this one earlier this week. For whatever reason this one gets me warmed up the easiest/fastest, and gets the higher range warmed up and extended without wearing out my voice. Killer warmup, thanks Jeff!
Thank you for all your wonderful lessons and exercises Jeff, you've helped me discover and work on my vocal range. When I was younger I was classified as a Baritone, little did I know, that I was an undeveloped Tenor. This has opened so many doors for my career. Keep up the great work. Thanks to you, I now have a clean A4 and still working on it. I'll keep on practicing to reach C5 some day.
Thanks for this, after 30 years I decided to start taking voice lessons again. I've lost most of my high range and this is really helping me to stretch my vocal chords back into those high notes. I really appreciate you putting these out there.
Well I like this one, too. I'm going to alternate it with the Daily Warmup you posted in September of 2021. Gentle warmups, agility exercises, and vowel alignment in everything I work on make for a full palate. Thanks for all your work. (You know, for a CCM focused musician and teacher, you sure teach a bel canto style!)
I always appreciate hearing from you, David, thank you! You are absolutely spot on. To have those seamless transitions across the secondo passaggio one has to come to an understanding of bel canto imho. To sing contemporary styles we make accommodations on vowels, knowing that we may pay a penalty on range, tone, sustain, etc. The trick is to balance it so you only pay as much a penalty as you absolutely have to, and perhaps have the flexibility to adjust the amount of penalty to allow for stylistic expression. Well spotted! Thank you! Jeff
Thanks Jeff! This is also my first concert as a tenor and your videos have helped me immensely as I transitioned from baritone, especially as I navigated the treacherous waters around the secundo passagio. Many thanks for the work you do 🙂
Jeff, congrats for your record "the Atlanticean" ...I liked so much the song "blackbird" that evokes some Radiohead sound to me, and I like that mix. Stunning material 🎶🎶
Hey Jeff, I'm finding out that being highly caffeinated during the warm-up is bad for my focus. Will try to save the coldbrew for after the lesson. Tried to relax my tongue and make good vowel shapes this lesson. Thank you.
Hey, Jeff -- you ever try inversion tables for singing practice? I mean the kind you suspend upside down on. I just got one for back issues, and I sang a little bit -- using deep core breathing techniques -- and something changed. I don't know if my cervical spine or mid-back or something just got a little bit better aligned or what, but everything I sing now feels better and feels different than before and sounds better. It's a trip. Unfortunately, I think it's making my disc problem in my back worse, so I'm not going to keep going with it right now. Just wondering if you've heard anything like that. Looking for "singing inversion" type keywords just gives long lists of musical inversions, lol.
I was thinking of chord inversions when I first saw your comment too! No, I haven't tried that, but I'm not surprised that it changed things for you. I did a video a few weeks ago where I ask you to try some hand and arm motions while you're singing. It does a similar thing in that by moving around, you're moving the muscles that you use to engage with your voice, and it can jog things loose or make you aware of how you're using your body. The inversion table is allowing you access to some muscles in a fashion that you're not doing while seated or standing in an upright position. The thing to do is to go on the inversion table, do some singing, and try to notice how your physical body feels during phonation. Go to an upright posture, and try to recreate the physical feeling. Often, with positioning practices like this, you'll have to alternate back and forth quite frequently to get the feel to be consistent. Nice work noticing that! Keep it up! Jeff
@@JeffRolka Rt on. Thanks for the reply. A musician friend recommended singing while lying down because it takes the weight off of certain muscles or what have you, and that's what I was thinking about when I tried singing upside down. I don't know what it was but the difference was phenomenal. I'm looking forward to doing more but unfortunately it makes my back a little worse right now, so it will be a few more months I think before I can try it again, since I really, *really* don't want to keep re-injuring the disc. Anyway, thanks again for the reply, and thanks for all the great warm-ups and lessons!
You're welcome! I hope your back gets better! Lying down may also be a good exercise to try if that doesn't hurt your back. I actually recommend that in a course that I teach! Best, Jeff
This tenor video is offset by one semi-tone (not a lot! Only one piano key different) on the high end, but I go a little lower here to accommodate those with more notes on the low end. I hope that helps! Jeff
first concert since covid tonight, so thanks for the timely new warmup, Jeff!
Break a leg! Enjoy!
Jeff
Break a leg! Hope your concert is awesome. Jeff's warmup are GREAT!
I've been using g your tenor warmups for a few years now, I start doing this one earlier this week. For whatever reason this one gets me warmed up the easiest/fastest, and gets the higher range warmed up and extended without wearing out my voice. Killer warmup, thanks Jeff!
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Jeff
Thank you for all your wonderful lessons and exercises Jeff, you've helped me discover and work on my vocal range. When I was younger I was classified as a Baritone, little did I know, that I was an undeveloped Tenor. This has opened so many doors for my career. Keep up the great work. Thanks to you, I now have a clean A4 and still working on it. I'll keep on practicing to reach C5 some day.
Thank you Jeff for this new warmup! The Rossini ''U'' was both challenging and rewarding this morning!! Have a great weekend!
Thank you so much! You too!
Jeff
Thanks for this, after 30 years I decided to start taking voice lessons again. I've lost most of my high range and this is really helping me to stretch my vocal chords back into those high notes. I really appreciate you putting these out there.
Thanks for these!
They help me to sing at church! Good gracious Lord save and strengthen and help us train!
Thanks JEFF!!! Always here.
Well I like this one, too. I'm going to alternate it with the Daily Warmup you posted in September of 2021. Gentle warmups, agility exercises, and vowel alignment in everything I work on make for a full palate. Thanks for all your work. (You know, for a CCM focused musician and teacher, you sure teach a bel canto style!)
I always appreciate hearing from you, David, thank you!
You are absolutely spot on. To have those seamless transitions across the secondo passaggio one has to come to an understanding of bel canto imho. To sing contemporary styles we make accommodations on vowels, knowing that we may pay a penalty on range, tone, sustain, etc. The trick is to balance it so you only pay as much a penalty as you absolutely have to, and perhaps have the flexibility to adjust the amount of penalty to allow for stylistic expression.
Well spotted!
Thank you!
Jeff
always such a great warm up :) thank you Jeff
Thank you, Jeff!
Thanks Jeff! This is also my first concert as a tenor and your videos have helped me immensely as I transitioned from baritone, especially as I navigated the treacherous waters around the secundo passagio. Many thanks for the work you do 🙂
Thanks Jeff 😇🥰
Love this one!
Jeff, congrats for your record "the Atlanticean" ...I liked so much the song "blackbird" that evokes some Radiohead sound to me, and I like that mix. Stunning material 🎶🎶
Thank you so much! I really appreciate that! I'm very happy with that album! Thanks for listening!
Jeff
This one was excellent 🫶🏽 thank you Jeff
i'm a trans man working my way down to being a full tenor, and your videos definitely are helping! you the best bro.
Right on! Keep it up!
Thank You
Amazing!
Thank you so much!!
Damn those endurances
Thanks for s great lesson! Rick S
My pleasure!
I am recording this warm-up and will send it
Hey Jeff, I'm finding out that being highly caffeinated during the warm-up is bad for my focus. Will try to save the coldbrew for after the lesson. Tried to relax my tongue and make good vowel shapes this lesson. Thank you.
As we sometimes say, too much of a good thing is a bad thing!
"Hello Tenors" Me- " Hello Jeefffff" in my beautiful tenor voice :)
Yay!
That man was not playin when he said mixed range ENDURANCE BOOOOY I feel like I just ran a marathon
Hey, Jeff -- you ever try inversion tables for singing practice? I mean the kind you suspend upside down on. I just got one for back issues, and I sang a little bit -- using deep core breathing techniques -- and something changed. I don't know if my cervical spine or mid-back or something just got a little bit better aligned or what, but everything I sing now feels better and feels different than before and sounds better. It's a trip. Unfortunately, I think it's making my disc problem in my back worse, so I'm not going to keep going with it right now. Just wondering if you've heard anything like that. Looking for "singing inversion" type keywords just gives long lists of musical inversions, lol.
I was thinking of chord inversions when I first saw your comment too!
No, I haven't tried that, but I'm not surprised that it changed things for you. I did a video a few weeks ago where I ask you to try some hand and arm motions while you're singing. It does a similar thing in that by moving around, you're moving the muscles that you use to engage with your voice, and it can jog things loose or make you aware of how you're using your body.
The inversion table is allowing you access to some muscles in a fashion that you're not doing while seated or standing in an upright position. The thing to do is to go on the inversion table, do some singing, and try to notice how your physical body feels during phonation.
Go to an upright posture, and try to recreate the physical feeling. Often, with positioning practices like this, you'll have to alternate back and forth quite frequently to get the feel to be consistent.
Nice work noticing that! Keep it up!
Jeff
@@JeffRolka Rt on. Thanks for the reply. A musician friend recommended singing while lying down because it takes the weight off of certain muscles or what have you, and that's what I was thinking about when I tried singing upside down. I don't know what it was but the difference was phenomenal. I'm looking forward to doing more but unfortunately it makes my back a little worse right now, so it will be a few more months I think before I can try it again, since I really, *really* don't want to keep re-injuring the disc. Anyway, thanks again for the reply, and thanks for all the great warm-ups and lessons!
You're welcome! I hope your back gets better! Lying down may also be a good exercise to try if that doesn't hurt your back. I actually recommend that in a course that I teach!
Best,
Jeff
every time i say..."helllloo Jeff'
Hello Octavio!
hey jeff, what do you mean by "narrow" as we descend in the warm down exercise?
thank you!
Great question. I will answer this in Questions from Comments 43! Stay tuned!
@@JeffRolka awesome, i will tune in!
I am a new female tenor singer and was wondering if you have any recomendations for a solo?
Depends on what the solo is for!
@@JeffRolka Just for fun! To sing for my family.
Just out of curiosity: how is this different from the baritenor one? I can do the baritenor one without any trouble and this one is good as well :)
This tenor video is offset by one semi-tone (not a lot! Only one piano key different) on the high end, but I go a little lower here to accommodate those with more notes on the low end.
I hope that helps!
Jeff
@@JeffRolka thanks. I was wondering why it felt the same as the baritenor one. One semitone is not different at all :)
No, not much difference at the secondo passaggio.
Best,
Jeff
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