Personally, over the last year, I have truly benefitted from vocal exercises in singing. Before I started the course, I had never had voice training or carried out technical exercises. In the long term, these exercises strengthen your voice. This is because, they can warm you up so that when you sing, your voice is ready to reach its full potential. They also help you establish a vocal range, so that when you sing you can find a suitable note/range of notes which are suitable for your voice. They also help you to prepare, as you could start singing unprepared, and not feel able to reach the capacity you could when your voice is warmed up. I think my voice is a lot better now I have used technical exercises. I am mol"a tuneful, and can hold a breath for a lengthened capacity of time. The exercises have helped me learn more about my own singing range too. I already knew that I was a metro soprano, but I am now aware how varied my voice is. For example, in one song, my voice might naturally fall in to a lower category. However, I could sing a different song and sing a higher note quite naturally and competently. This makes it harder to fit me in to a singing group, but at least I can explore and enhance my abilities in both of my main voice groups. The exercises can also be used to practice scales, in different note ranges, and I now can identify the key quite easily, or whether it is a major scale or minor, or arpeggio. Without technical vocal exercises, my voice would never be. Prepared, and would not have improved at all. The technical exercises have helped me improve in a variety of ways. For example, my vocal range has grown, and I can easily reach the top, and bottom of my range, which is quite wide. I can also hold my breath for longer, this was something I really struggled with. Also, my pronunciation and articulation during songs has improved, as I used to struggle with swallowing my words and not articulating. Below is a video of me carrying out scales and technical exercises:
https://youtu.be/VD6GLVa2r04
It would be useful if you could identify exactly how exercises impact on your singing. Ability to reach notes at either end of your range, strength to hold longer notes, impact on phrasing etc. You could actually damage your vocal cords if you don't warm your voice up. Please spell check before uploading your blog posts.
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