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MY GO-TO WARM UP, by Deidra Douglas (Cypress Falls high School)   Daily reinforcement of the basic vocal development skills—breath control and support, vocal tone, vowel formation– and consistent teaching of vocal placement within the choral rehearsal and individually, contributed to my students’ success.   One exercise that I use consistently with my women is […]

MY GO-TO WARM UP, by Art Lapierre (American River College Vocal Jazz Ensemble)   I use a basic ascending/descending major 9th arpeggio with various combinations of neutral vowels, vowels with voiced and unvoiced consonants, as well as text. I usually (although not always) harmonize this with a rolling I major 7th chord which moves to […]

MY GO-TO WARM UP, by Kim Davidson, (Roanoke Valley Children’s Choir)   In 28 years I’ve tried so many warm-ups! At conferences and festivals I write down everyone’s warm-ups and try many of them with my choirs as I work to cover all of the important aspects necessary for building our best choral sound and […]

MY GO-TO WARM-UP, by Anthony Arnold (Miller Middle School Advanced Choir)   I believe that 90% of singing is air and controlling the air. Due to this belief, I incorporate breathing exercises that engage the students to focus on controlling their air flow to produce their beautiful tone. The exercise we use is a modification […]

For an apparently significant percentage of us, the hunt for new music is a never-ending quest.   Like so many made-for-TV zombies, choral conductors prowl the musical countryside in an effort to feed that burning yearning for “The New.”   The matter of “new” music verses “old” music has been something of a mini-controversy for several […]