Opera Singing Warm-Up Routine
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- 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.
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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
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 !
*and then lick your hand* I actually licked my hand...
LOL
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 ;)
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
I AM A TENOR, AND I THINK, YOU ARE A GREAT MAN AND A GREAT BARITON.
that's so kind thank you
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.
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!
You are a singing machine Meachem! No keyboard for pitch reference, you're amazing! Great and simple exercises for voice flexibility
thanks!!
Thanks so much for sharing. Many people do not appreciate how important a warm up is! Brilliant!
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. 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
Finally someone who understands me....Lip trills are life!! Love from Germany
You look a bit like Art UA-camr Jazza
Thanks for the video btw, it's a great help :)
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!
"My dog can do it" Ro-ro-ro-ro-ro o... Cracked me up!!😅
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Rock singer here. These opera warm-ups are so great though! Great for projecting my voice, and breath control.
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!!!
Even when you speaking, sounds very musical to me 😆
7:52. To all those who think you're a tenor, listen to that resonant G#2/A2 (not sure which one it is).
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!
Best warm up lesson for Tenors! Thank you Lucas Meachem!
my pleasure!
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! :-)
Great how cool advices are combined with some small jokes! feel really recharged watching this :)
im doing this for fun
Me two
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!
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
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
Absolutely love this!! Bravo. Vibrate the sounded consonants... thank you!!!! Please everyone do that.
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.
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 💙
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! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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...
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!!
It's okay Lucas I forgive you...I'm really warming up right now...And then lick your hand
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!
This is a very interesting video. It would be great to have a longer video of you doing you're warm up ! Especially the idea of humming. Thx for your content !
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!
I have a problem doing the trill in "front". It is as you describe way in the back. Any suggestions to how I will practise resonance in the "nose"?
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 😄
I find this quite funny and ridiculous but at the same time
it's working
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
I can imitate Micheal Jackson's lower range (but not his high range) and Johnny cashes full voice so not sure what range that would be. I'm thinking high baritone cause I'm definitely not a tenor cause I can't hit anywhere near as high as tenors can but I can still do pretty good imitations of some singers who have mid to high voices and I can go very high in my head voice in certain placements but not so much I'm others. I'm a singer and impressionist/actor from america.
Thanks for posting this. It was a lot all at once! Q. I'm retired at 67. Once upon a time I was trained in opera. Can I regain my voice at my age? I have no vocal damage, but there is definitely atrophy. My goal is not to audition for an opera company, but I would seriously love to sing for a major chorus like the L.A. Master Chorale. Thoughts?
@LucasMeachem1 Would you do the same for females, specifically for sopranos?
I am sopran, and my tones were always behind and now are they beautifull and with "forward vibrations"! Thank you very much,really!
awesome!!!
Next lesson; make your best chicken noise impression bugh bugh bugh
To warm up all those muscles.
The last excercise sounds like he's opera singing the word Meow
( Mi Eh Ah Oh oo )
I am so sorry to bother you. I know this is about belting. I found this online about the tenor range: By Some Standards
Tenor = B2 - F4 or C3 - B4. I sing B2 - A4 and I can hit B4 and C5. My voice reminds me of the range Ed Sheeran sings in. I’ve noticed that my voice blossoms as I get higher in my range, it doesn’t sound deep but kind of brassy, bright, and a high tone. Please help. What vocal type do you think I may be? I would greatly appreciate your help.
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.
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.
Thank you for making the Lucas. It is very helpful!!
That definitely works! Thank you for your tips. My voice has never felt that flawless coming out of my mouth 😅
My neighbours might be suffering, but I'm willing to pay the price to relax my voice box.
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?
Have you ever seen the Q.X. exercise? Five tone scales in the low to middle range, alternating keeoo and ex. You stretch wide on the ee and really chew into the eh. At the same time you screw your upper facial muscles including your forehead this way and that. It's great for loosening the tongue, jaw and facial muscles. If you've been using this exercise for a while you even stretch neck muscles down to your collar bone
Bravo bravo bravissimo in verita...forte abbraccio maestro...blessings for you and your family
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
Mr.Meachem, i enjoy your enthusiasm in the video, but i have some comments.
What you do is 'placement' and that means constriction! but you don't recognize this off yourself, so what you think, that its oke' but it is not.
What important is to train the lowest!!! part off the voice so you can feel and discover the true voice.
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.
Thank you for this ! Although in the breath support part, the falsetto exercices are also for women with very low voice ;) At least it works for me anyway, maybe I could become a female baritenor or some freaky abnormality of the sort haha
Este Señor Machin.
Expone maximas de tecnica vocal y le pone nota a cantantes liricos de Primer nivel...
Creo que en la lirica no hay maximas.tecnicas.Solo opiniones.
Y El Gran Kraus.y otros de su altura merecen todo el respeto por su contribucion al mundo lirico.
Nos giste o no su tecnica timbre etc.
Un humilde abrazo desde Madrid.😒
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!
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
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.
Hi Lucas, your dog is a beauty (thanks for the exercises too) 😁😁😁😁
@LucasMeachem1 how high/low do you go on each exercise?
I was seriously about to spend 1k for a month of opera..but this is better 😅
Thankyou so much 💓
works very well and inspired for new stuff.. Thank You😊
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.
What do a dramatic baritone’s low notes sound like?
They way you pronounced the word massage proves you’ve been to China, lol
Smart, and right to the point. Even if we got to re-start the video. Valuable information
Can you do a video on accessing that powerful blasting opera sound??
You are very big person, when you are giving us your know-how for free. Thank you very much 👏🏼
I can’t thank you enough for making this video! Thank you!!
i have lots of trouble initiating a lip trill. i find it much easier to do it unvoiced. but when i do it voiced i seem to slip off the track very quickly and lose it. and i suspect i'm doing what you call an "oversupported" lip trill. i fear i am just naturally defective.
Very good, thank you.
But how many scales/repetitions do you do for each exercise ?
It really helped me thank you for the great video🙏🏻🙏🏻
I want to learn opera but I found a lot of these really hilarious, helpful I'm sure but hilarious ❤😂
How much time do you spend on each part, can we have a list ? :P (on daily basis)
Dear Lucas, I really really, but really want to thank you for this video.
It changes my life as a student singer. Thanks to you I am a kind of Born again singer now really ,thanks
that's amazing, I'm so happy for you
need some insight. lip trilling always dries my throat out. any pointers???
My dear you have a wonderful voice to my opinion you are a spinto tenor you must rework your voice . Samson tessitura as aeneas in les troyens is the correct for you .i have an experience over 60 years in operatic voices i am 77 years old i m not a voice teacher but my ear is correct l have seen many tenors with the type of your voice as prevedi bergonzi zambon etc you must stop singing arias as boheme and generaly the italian tenor repertory . Try french / german arias they are more comfortable for the present state of your voice . You have an easy tenor high b .stop singing for a while . Only volalises up to high c my english are bad sorry i am a greek i live in athens .
Thanks for these exercises, they've been very helpful :) (and I'm a high soprano)
nice!!
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
Thanks alot Lucas Meachem!!! Great video!!! Thanks for always being so generous!
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
Thank you so much for sharing! This is just a super video! No one has explained and showed everything in such detail! You really helped to get on the right way! I can not express how grateful I am to you! Thank you so much and great success!😊👍👏👏👏
Fun, energized and effective. Just what I needed.
I love him I have this video saved and now I can pull opera man out of my pocket and the best is when it auto plays at where I last paused the video
This is super helpful! I'm leading chorus rehearsals for "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" at my university and wasn't sure how to lead warmups (especially for the guys in our group!). Definitely gonna some of these out. Thank you! :)
Probably should not be doing these while drinking and smoking.
Haha if you're doing it right there's never a bad time to warm up ;)