Opera Singing Warm-Up Routine
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2018
- 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!
Good, I didn't know I had such stunning falsetto.
And neither did my neighbours.
Lmaoooo
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 😅😅
I’m a young opera singer and this HELPED SO MUCH THANKS
happy to hear!! best of luck.
Thanks so much for sharing. Many people do not appreciate how important a warm up is! Brilliant!
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 !
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 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 ;)
Rock singer here. These opera warm-ups are so great though! Great for projecting my voice, and breath control.
"My dog can do it" Ro-ro-ro-ro-ro o... Cracked me up!!😅
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.
Best warm up lesson for Tenors! Thank you Lucas Meachem!
my pleasure!
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 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!!!
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!
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
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
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!
Lucas, I am so grateful for, and impressed by the simplicity and effectiveness of this routine. I am a professional opera singer and have taught voice for 12 years along the way, and am always learning and wanting to see how others do what they do! Thank you for sharing this, it's worked really well for me, as I'm training into the Verdi Baritone fach and have struggled to not see-saw between feeling like a more dramatic bass-baritone or a full lyric depending on the rep. These exercises are helping that uniformity in resonance and placement and flexibility feel easier in just 2 days. Blessings to you!
Finally someone who understands me....Lip trills are life!! Love from Germany
You are a singing machine Meachem! No keyboard for pitch reference, you're amazing! Great and simple exercises for voice flexibility
thanks!!
I AM A TENOR, AND I THINK, YOU ARE A GREAT MAN AND A GREAT BARITON.
that's so kind thank you
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!
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
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.
Thank you so much! My music teacher guitarist he told me I had great opera singing that’s why I’m here to challenge and improve myself
I was a vocal performance major all the way through graduate school, but when I switched careers, I lost a lot of my singing skills, and developed some really bad habits. This warm-up routine somehow gets me singing with excellent technique every time. I can't thank you enough! Please never take this video down!!
I can’t thank you enough for making this video! Thank you!!
How fun...I usually struggle....”am I good enough “ through all my singing...your
excellent healthy advice is refreshing....many thanks
I love octave arpeggios. when in doubt BOUNCE EVERYTHING!
Wow! Such great advice here. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!
Since 2005 I was trying to find some opera lessons like yours, but they were not there. I switch to jazz singing and felt that something was still missing, I'm back and thank you for this wonderful lesson. Singing like this really gives a person a sense of great power within.
Fun, energized and effective. Just what I needed.
Wonderful warm-up! Thank you so much for sharing!
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!
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 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...
You are legit a LIFESAVER. I just couldn't figure out how to sing any operatic note until I watched this video and a magical sound flew out of this mouth
Edit: I'm also a bass and I couldn't find ANYTHING that was applicable to me until I found your glorious channel
Oh my goodness, THANK YOU!! This has helped me free my voice so much! Young opera singer here :)
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!!!
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! :-)
Absolutely love this!! Bravo. Vibrate the sounded consonants... thank you!!!! Please everyone do that.
I feel so good after this warmup thank you so much I'm a lyric Baritone too and I'm so glad that I found this warmup.
Thanks alot Lucas Meachem!!! Great video!!! Thanks for always being so generous!
I have a callback for a character who knows how to sing opera so this helps me a lot!!! Thank you so much =)
Thank you so much dear Lucas! I am practicing with your video! ❤️
This is the only warmup that I ever do now! Makes my voice sound free and amazing! Thank you, Lucas!
amazing, so happy for you
Thank you so much for this video! I honestly have been looking for a warm-up that discusses the common mistakes and what to avoid.
You are very big person, when you are giving us your know-how for free. Thank you very much 👏🏼
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.
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!😊👍👏👏👏
I am a young soprano, thank u so much Lucas .
This lesson worth a lot .
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.
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 😄
Thank you so much for posting this lesson. Fantastic.
Thank you Lucas . it was totally helpful for me .
Love this warm up, makes me sound like an Angel!
that's the goal
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! :)
Thank you King Author I'm a tenor opera student you helped my voice sound amazing rock on !!
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!
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!!
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.
I've been trying to master Charlie Rutlage on my drive to and from work and this is a giant step forward. This is very similar to what I was taught in university but it has been a while since then. Very kind of you to share!
wow! after I used this warm up for a week my voice sounded so free
Love this soooo much!!!! Thank you Lucas! So fun. Thank you for the giggles.
very happy to hear that! I'll post more soon :)
Aha?just amazing....how great and trustful you are ....bravo and many thanks
Mr. Meachem, thank you for all of your videos.
Thank you so much for sharing! I love your approach and energy.
Bravo Lucas! All great information for young singers. Thank you for sharing!
That means a lot to me Cesar.
Fantastic video by a truely great artist.
Thank you very much!
thank you!
ive been an amateur drummer (on/off) since early 60s. never sang untill recent band mates demanded it. my daughter swears by the warm up vocal lesson here. already feel confident that i hav half a chance . its rock music but im sure it doesnt matter other than most rock vox is ego, screaming, and shaking yer ass ! going for it here in detroit ! oh your personality is great ! thx !
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
Great how cool advices are combined with some small jokes! feel really recharged watching this :)
Thank you for sharing this warmup, love how complete and concise and practical it is for use daily and it addresses all the areas where I tend to be thrown off when singing (ease and use, placement, vibrato, tone stability). Best wishes to you in your continued singing and artist journey!
Very interesting, thank you, Lucas
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 very much for sharing it. I loved incorporating your vocal warming into my routine. Your advice and exercises are really good and they have been very useful. Successes!
Yes this WARM UP really BRINGS MY VOICE FORWARD . I DO IT EVERY DAY SINCE LAST WEAK .
This is GOLD. Thank you!
Omg this is amazing! Thank you so much for sharing!!! 🙏🏼
Great advice!! Especially not being too hard on oneself. Excellent! 💃🏿
A nice explanation without being boring! Thanks!
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.
You are charming and delightful! Thank you for these warm ups, so sweetly delivered.
Wow, I just discovered this channel and I love it. I'm a baritone and today I realised that my tongue was the epitome of my vocal issues, so it was a big step in my training. And then i found this warm up!i think my lucky day is not over yet.
the way I warm up doesn't allow me to have tension. it creeps me into singing with good habits, that's why I like it. I'm really glad it helped you. I just uploaded a new video today, I hope you check it out. best of luck.
Same! My tongue is my enemy! It moves too slow.
I never had anymore fun doing a breathing exercise 😃 thanks!
Thank you Dear! This was oh so help...and you're so talented, great sense of humor with a Great warm heart 💚💙
Great insight thank you!
Thank you so much! You’re amazing!
Thanks! I just started this warmup and I love it! I became a director and AD a few years back and am getting back into singing. This feels right.
happy to help! best of luck getting back into the swing of things.
@@LucasMeachem1 do you by chance give lessons while you're here in SF for R and J?
@@PocketOperaSF yes I could do a one time consultation. Send me a message through my website;)
Even as a female singer I can benefit from this warm up routine. Helpful and real fun to watch 😆
It worked soooo well ! Thank you, Lucas 🥹🙌
7:52. To all those who think you're a tenor, listen to that resonant G#2/A2 (not sure which one it is).
Okay but why did I just get insanely better after this?!
I already like you. I sure need this. Thank you so much!! 🎶
Thanks Lucas. Love the different angles you come at it, without over-thinking. Thank you! My challenge is incorporating the relaxed tongue & throat AND keeping a forward resonance (I majorly tend to fall back), and infusing the energy of a constant vibrato. That balance for me is super difficult, and quickly can start to make my voice have an airy quality (maybe the battle between my muscles trying to take over and my mind trying to make them chill out.
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'm a metal singer and this helped a TON.
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