Opera Singing Warm-Up Routine
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- This is exactly how I warm up my voice before any performance or important rehearsal. Use these when you need to be at your absolute best singing-wise. They help me immensely with each opera role I perform.
Make sure to take your time with each step because it's about singing them correctly than getting through them.
I owe a big thank you to my voice teachers for the inspiring me over the years, especially Marlena Malas.
www.lucasmeachem.com
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I can't believe how well this worked; it is like magic. I have been drinking tea, sucking on tablets, deep breathing until I am blue, napping before and after my usual exercises and nothing has achieved what I got out of this video. I sang a solo today and heads popped up.
Rick Van Weelden so happy to hear you found these exercises helpful. I’m so glad it worked for you. Keep at it.
@@LucasMeachem1 Thanks for responding; I have always had a fascination with opera, so I am especially affected that you would take the time to respond. My case is a little different; I only sing solos at church. It's to an affluent, somewhat cultured group, but we are all elderly. I used to sing in a little local troupe 30ya, but could hardly speak when my heart failed. Then I had a heart transplant and now I am getting better than ever. As I say, heads are popping up that are usually napping through my solo hymns. Thanks again for giving up the keys to the castle. It helps a lot.
Don't get me wrong, I am not affluent and cultured. I clawed my way to a house in this area. These people probably wouldn't talk to me if I were not in this church. Where I grew up, the people on the wrong side of the tracks wouldn't associate with my family. But we had a lot love: loved drinking, loved fighting;loved gambling; loved going forth and multiplying...
I get the feeling people tend to like you in real life
that's so sweet....i hope so
Right!
Hooooly smokes I just did this entire warmup today throughout the day like you said and today is easily the best I've EVER sung and the most free my voice has EVER been. I owe you a billion dollars.
I take credit cards, check or kind comments like these!!
@@LucasMeachem1 can I contact you? I am singer from Serbia.
@@LucasMeachem1 lol
@@LucasMeachem1 😅😅
Good, I didn't know I had such stunning falsetto.
And neither did my neighbours.
Lmaoooo
I’m a young opera singer and this HELPED SO MUCH THANKS
happy to hear!! best of luck.
Omg I cannot lip trill. For the life of me, I have tried for years and just can’t do it! Lol
I guess you can do my upcoming 15 Day Vocal Warm Up Challenge then.
Plus.....
I don't believe you...; )
ditto. Have to find the 15 day warmup challenge, or so it seems.
Ja ja ja, you can do it all!
Oh there is a hack you press your both cheek upwards and then you can do it
FV BUZZ that’s wat u do
This video saved me. I had problems with finding my natural timbre, so i didn’t know how to sing consistently with same color. In fact, i am doing this everyday and i just had been three days but a lot of thing changed and made my singing easier. Thank you Mr. Meachem, i hope one day i get to see you.
Though the picture shows a guy (my partner) I am a soprano. This is sooooooo like my warm-ups and the way I was taught to practise and test out the voice, that I had to Google you and see if, by chance you'd ever studied with my teacher ! This is the best video I've seen on showing how to practise.... and I've looked at a few ! I love your singing. All power, man !
Finally someone who understands me....Lip trills are life!! Love from Germany
Thank you so much for sharing! In the last year, I graduated with a degree in vocal performance just after the virus really start to spread. I missed out on having the big recital, experiencing an abroad program, and graduating and got bummed out and kinda stopped singing. I'm pulling my life back together and am so grateful I found your warm-up routine! My voice feels great! Open, more flexible, and brighter (I'm the dark sound who needs to come forward, haha). All-in-all, your warm-up is helping me get back in shape and improve my technique, and combat issues as well. Again, thank you!
This is truly the best advice I've gotten as a singer. Bits of pieces of things I've heard throughout my training but never put together like this, thank you.
This helped so much with tongue tension, especially the cue to keep the tongue down behind the back teeth. Huge difference!! Thank you 🙏🏻
that's amazing. keep it up! I mean down ;)
Best warm up lesson for Tenors! Thank you Lucas Meachem!
my pleasure!
This is gold, I love the non zero sum heart of those like Lucas whom care more about the artform and elevating the community of vocal artisans through dispensing key knowledge.
That is so incredibly kind of you, thank you for your words.
I am sopran, and my tones were always behind and now are they beautifull and with "forward vibrations"! Thank you very much,really!
awesome!!!
Dear maestro...in life ...we have to thank people like you...i have added to my routine your exercises...and are wonderful...God bless you always...this is very but very very helpful...bravo bravo
You are a singing machine Meachem! No keyboard for pitch reference, you're amazing! Great and simple exercises for voice flexibility
thanks!!
I can attest to the fact that these warm ups are ALL spot on! Bravo Lucas!
When he came in with that Hung-ih-dih-ma ma ma ma Mi Me Ma Mo Mu shit, my jaw dropped. He’s so fast! But I luv it!
Just discovered you and subscribed. I'm an aging perennial amateur opera-chorister and _comprimario_ bass. I have been singing since you were only a gleam in your father's eye. I sing with the petite-grand-opera companies like Regina Opera in Brooklyn and until recently Amore Opera in Manhattan, which is now on life-support because the director, producer, all-around-boss, and fundraiser-in-chief died suddenly in 2020. My favorite role so far is Antonio the gardener; I try to channel WC Fields' acting-style when I play him.
I also have Parkinson's disease, so singing has become a kind of physical therapy for me: a way of negotiating temporary periods of truce in the ongoing struggle between my will and my body.
Your advice on arpeggio singing is really helpful. I am just getting over a habit of landing hard on the high note, singing it without vibrato or motion, and then collapsing completely on the way back down. I would even go a bit further than you when you say the high note is not the destination: I would add that the ending note one returns to is not the final destination either - you have to sing through that note too, with motion and direction. The final destination is the moment after you finish the final note of the arpeggio and stop singing (just as the final destination of life is not the moment of dying; it's death. _"Eine_ _Strasse_ _muss_ _ich_ _gehen,_ _die_ _noch_ _Kei-i-i-i-i-i-i-ner_ _ging_ _zurück!")_
This was very helpful! I used to be a coloratura soprano in college before I transitioned and started on hormone replacement therapy. It’s been so difficult to find my range (mostly because my voice is still settling), but I’m probably leaning towards a baritone. I have to re-teach my voice and body to sing and support thicker vocal chords now 😄
Much Love to you Lucas Meachem,
You are an Amazing Song Teacher and Coach ,
Warm Greetings to you from Helsingborg Sweden from Abel Zorin
Danish is a normal language Swedish is gibberish
Thank you. We really never stop needing and/or searching for quality warm-ups, then finding in our craziness, Master classes and historical clips such that our online collections rival the National Archives...so, thank you, this was both informative and enjoyable. And a critter lover, too. It was as if I was learning from a friend...finally. Thank you.
best of luck and thank you for your kind words
Woa this warm up is by far the best I've come across, I'd say especially as a soprano.
I feel like a lot of videos start too high and doesn't let us varm up enough. Love this and see myself using this video a lot.
Hi Sir Lucas Meachem !
This is an Amazing Warm Up , it is Gold Worth . You are such a Great Singing Coach ,and you are Funny to ,make the students be relaxed and ready to be taught ,
I wish you a Great Summer ,and that you can do your Opera Singing the best Way,
Much Love to you from Helsingborg Sweden from Abel Zorin
Hello Maestro,
One question: your larynx is not in the yawn mode when singing, is it?
Because I'm getting the bright forward projection only if I let go of the yawn technique I've been taught, otherwise yawning makes me a dark voice that I can't tell if it's mine or not
Thank you
You can do both. Think of the yawn of 20% rather than 100%. A slightly lowered larynx.
Lucas Meachem thanks!
Your advice is absolutely in perfect sync with what I experience at practice. The main thing is the nice ringing vowels (I practice mainly on VEE), but then also that yawn, but maybe the feeling we get at the beginning of a yawn and not the fully pushed down larynx type of yawn
Keep us posted please. Thank you!
Thank you for making the Lucas. It is very helpful!!
I AM A TENOR, AND I THINK, YOU ARE A GREAT MAN AND A GREAT BARITON.
that's so kind thank you
Thanks so much for sharing. Many people do not appreciate how important a warm up is! Brilliant!
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This warmup worked so well for me! I am a Helden tenor and it caused my top to be so light n bright!
You are not a heldentenor
I want to learn opera but I found a lot of these really hilarious, helpful I'm sure but hilarious ❤😂
THANK YOU!! I have been using these warm up routines for almost a week in preparation for singing the USA and JAPAN National Anthem at a Black History Month ceremony. I did feel much more in control and relaxed before and after. Thank you, kind sir!
Thanks Lucas, this warm up has helped me so much. Just took on some new challenging music at age 74 and singing better than
ever that’s to you. Would love to send you a tape to hear your thoughts. Best
Great how cool advices are combined with some small jokes! feel really recharged watching this :)
You are charming and delightful! Thank you for these warm ups, so sweetly delivered.
I love it when world class singers share their tips with the rest of us. After having the pleasure of singing and speaking with several world class singers (I ain't one of 'em....yet...) many use lip trills and other similar warms up demonstrated here. Now its almost a ritual for me not only to get the voice working but put me in place mentally. I use it before I have to sing anything. I don't even go to my voice lesson before i do this. Thanks again Lucas...you rock!!!
wow! after I used this warm up for a week my voice sounded so free
A nice explanation without being boring! Thanks!
"My dog can do it" Ro-ro-ro-ro-ro o... Cracked me up!!😅
Hi Lucas and the rest of your audience! Thank you for recording your warmup routine! My voice teacher recommended to me your channel and it changes my singing quite a lot! If you will ever update or change it - could you record it so we can see your torso working as well?
Even when you speaking, sounds very musical to me 😆
HI! Just discovered your channel and love it. I am Mezzo Soprano but I can actually sing higher than I did just under a year ago. So, this lesson was extremely useful as I sing Musical Theatre and opera. Looking forward very much to your other lessons. Many many thanks! Love the dog!
Rock singer here. These opera warm-ups are so great though! Great for projecting my voice, and breath control.
This warm-up was the BEST I've found online thus far! I try to find great videos in between my actual lessons, and this was absolutely amazing for my voice! I am working on Carmen Habanera and this was exactly what I needed. You have a new fan--and follower! Thank you so much!
I've only just found this - very late to the party! Oops. Lucas, you're such a joy 😊
Hey Lucas , I admire you as a singer , as coach and as a person! Whish you all the best! And thanks for the good advices,there is always something to learn and improve! :-)
OMG I just followed you on Instagram and then I saw this vid when I was looking for warm up inspiration. You are an incredible singer, thank you for sharing your warm up routine!!
Excellent warm up! Thank you! Sharing with my husband. ❤
im doing this for fun
Me two
Yay! Love this so much! Thank you :)
You look a bit like Art UA-camr Jazza
Thanks for the video btw, it's a great help :)
Mr. Meachem, Thank you for your you tube channel and all the great vocal advice. I am a tenor, trying to rebuild the voice I lost . I look everywhere for any "tip that might be helpful. I find that many of the things you say are very helpful. I wish you good health and continued success. Marcus Haddock
Yoo! thanks Lucas you a lifesaver!
Great advice!! Especially not being too hard on oneself. Excellent! 💃🏿
Ever since I've watched this video a few months ago, I've been using the exercises ever since and it has made such a difference in my vibrato and range. As a baritone, I have always struggled with high ranges, I was wondering if you could release a video on sing exercises you use for increasing your upper register?
That's great to hear... yes I could put them up on Instagram. I post many of my exercises there!
7:52. To all those who think you're a tenor, listen to that resonant G#2/A2 (not sure which one it is).
A great lesson，effective demonstration and explanation，purposeful and helpful。
Thank you so much for this singing lesson!! I am watching this video repeated times,it has so many very very useful information concentrated in just a few minutes !!Again,thank you!!! It is helping me a lot!
so happy to hear that...best of luck Monteiro
Absolutely love this!! Bravo. Vibrate the sounded consonants... thank you!!!! Please everyone do that.
Opera is not my singing style but I enjoyed your video and will try the exercises. You are most pleasant to watch. Thank you!
Thank you for giving the keys to the castle! 😂😂🥰🥰
Lucas Meachem is the real deal.
Perfect. So helpful. Thank you!
Thank you so much for sharing! I love your approach and energy.
Don’t mind me! Just for future reference
Step 1
1. massage under your ear, cheeks, nose, under your cheekbones, under your tongue with ur thumbs, neck, back neck, throat back and forth one or two times
2. Hang your jaw open and shake, loosely. Relax your tongue out of your mouth and shape
3. Breathe in and our quickly through your mouth, then nose. Breathe out with a HMMMM
4. Do lip trills, lip trolls are life. Do them in d major, and go up! Relax
5. Octave arpeggios, keep the sound in the same space all the way through the arpeggio. Don’t start too low or too high. Go over the top note.
6. Jumping exercise! If ur feeling woozy go down, feeling good? Go up, don’t feel bad abt going down. Sound should be open and forward, not in the back.
7. Falsetto for MEN! Ladies skip
8. Bounce!! Diaphragm NEEDs to move
Step 2
Few hours later! Don’t worry about any snap, crackles, or pops
1. Sing “nay” don’t spread or go back. Go out! Keep ur tongue relaxed behind the bottom teeth naynaynaynaynaynay
2. Bright a vowel: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, DONT MOVE UR JAW. move the tongue. Place ur hand in the bottom of the chin, lick ur hand lmao. Stick tongue out at the end to avoid tongue tension
3.say nyumnyumnyum in a nasal way
4. Humimgahabamamamoooo don’t over articulate
5. Vierni vibrato
Step 3
1. Maaaaa from lowest note to highest
Listen to yourself and see what you should work on
2. Miiiiiiiii Miiiiii
3. Neeeeehhhhhhhh
4. Mi eh ah oh oo
*and then lick your hand* I actually licked my hand...
LOL
This. is. amazing! Thank you so much for sharing!
Wow, thank you!
Excellent video my new daily go to thanks so much Lucas
Where were you 2 years ago when I gave up singing aria's and now Jazz. But...my teacher always lets me warm up with classical training. Thank you for posting this routine, Lucas. I will let my teacher know about this post.
How inspiring is this video??? ⚘
Thank you!
i just bought a dog, just to be sure to respect all the process!!! thank you so much!!! :D i will try and tell you what works best for me, dog included :D
Thanks for your good training🌻
Love your channel
Amazing xxx
So insporational
I love you
Marry me
Great stuff! Thank you for sharing! ❤️💪🙌
This is gold!
thank you for the tips
I really loved this warm up, I find it complete and easy, definitely I'll do it everyday, thank you so much for sharing! I just found super difficult the nasal area but I'll keep practicing! Thank you again!!
Thank you!
Very very useful warm up.
It was a great Don Giovanni yesterday - Thank you very much. Debating whether to see once again :)
very happy to hear you enjoyed it
Thank you I do many of that already but I've never known it was called " lip trills" before. I do trillo, roulades and falsetto to relax the throat. I'm baritone too and it's so helping for the larynx to try to falsetto all of the vocalise when you climb to your high passaggio and then come back to the chest notes still trying to falsetto them you know...
OMFFFFFGGGGGGG! thank youuuuu.I'm gonna cry. this is a HoLE singing package! you're so generous! God bless you, man!
i'm happy to!
0:20 - YAS! GIVE US ALL THE SECRETS!! ψ(｀∇´)ψ I love how well put this vid is, snappy, straight to the point and entertaining 😂👌🏼 Thanks for sharing bro 💙
Lol, you brought me right back to Marlena's studio. I'm guessing you studied with her based on this :)
Wow! Such great advice here. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!
Lots of love from Bangladesh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Because of this wonderful and really funny video, I'm subscribing :)
I can’t thank you enough for making this video! Thank you!!
you're amazing. thank you so much. i'm in my 60's and was more or less giving up on my voice but now i sound 20yrs younger! thank you again.
I'm in awe at how quickly you can breathe in and out of your mouth and nose! Any tips? I've seen you do this in one of your insta story and couldn't for the life of me understand how you did that so quickly. My guess is amazing breath control and practice?
Thanks a lot for this video! I'll show it to all my friends at conservatory.
Repetition.Keep at it and practice it everyday. Thanks for the kind words!
I want to give this warm up a try, Mr. Meacham! I am a community college student who has sung in my college's choir before, but I am determined to hone my voice.
It's okay Lucas I forgive you...I'm really warming up right now...And then lick your hand
WOW I sound so much better now! thank you!😁😊
amazing!
Hello, Dear Lucas! 🌷🙂 God Bless You and Your Beautiful Voice! 💚🙏🏻💜 Thank you so very much for sharing with us such valuable and helpful information. This is a very generous gesture 👑👑👑 Especially for those who are begginers in vocal, these information are manna from heaven 😍🥰 I myself am a vocalist ( mezzo - soprano ). And I would like to ask you this question: are these exercises counted and for mezzo sopranos too? Considering that you are baritone ( by the way, a very pleasant one ) and this type of male voice goes in parallel with mezzo soprano. Because, if they do I would like to use them in my voice warm - up routine for they are absolutely unique 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Thank you for creating such amazing channel and for sharing us your helpful knowledges! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
THIS IS THE BEST MAN THANK YOU SO MUCH.. hey can you please show a slow version for the very last one??? Its unbelievable I am feeling waaay better warming up with these exercises.. rock on
Wow Lucas, that was amazing. That was an experience watching and hearing how a warm up should be done. Certainly must be a lot of work to arrive at 'perfection' but must be worth it. Thanks.
Thank you Dear! This was oh so help...and you're so talented, great sense of humor with a Great warm heart 💚💙
Lucas, thanks for sharing this. I would love to take lessons from you! I've been singing for a long time and studied fairly extensively in my younger days of 20-30s. I'm pretty much a hack who knows enough to be dangerous. I've studied the lyric baritone repertoire, art song, German lied, and pretty much decided to give musical theatre my dedication. I am all over the place and RUSTY. I played around with helden tenor rep for a while but once again, my lack of enough foundation probably sabotaged what could have eventually come out. That tesitura requires one to actually have the foundation.
I've had fun with it as a hobby but I seriously think there could have been more.
Your video was fun to watch and you seem like an amazing spirit energy.