Voice: Exercise

Breathing and posture:

• Keep your chin level, head up, knees loose, toes pointed forward with weight on heels and soles, and your neck, abdomen and back relaxed.
• Place your hands on your waist with your fingers aimed toward your belly button.
• Take a slow, deep breath and attempt to make your stomach rise.
• Keep breathing in until your chest slowly expands.
• Breath out slowly to a count of five. Repeat 10 times. 

Humming warm-up gently stretches your vocal chords to avoid any strain:

• Attempt to hum the expression, "Hmm."
• First, allow your pitch to rise at the end, as if you were asking a question. When your pitch rises, you should feel a sort of buzzing sensation in your nasal and eye area. This is a signal that you are doing the exercise correctly and not over-using the throat.
• Then, allow your pitch to lower, as if you are doubting something.  When your pitch lowers, you should feel the buzzing move downward to your chest.

 Pitch accuracy, flexibility and note durability:

• Sing up and down the traditional scale: do, re, me, fa, so, la, te, do at the correct scale pitches to practice flexibility and pitch accuracy.
• Sustain a note as long as possible to practice note durability. Breathe in deeply and slowly. Sing one note and hold it for as long as you can without becoming short of breath. Avoid sucking in your stomach.