Favorite Head Voice Warm-ups
From: Daily Head Voice Workout For Tenors And High Baritoneby Abram Poliakoff
Description:
The easiest, most effective head voice warm-ups for beginners use narrow vowels like OO and EE. The resonance of these vowels is such that your voice has an easier time lightening and thinning into that head voice function. Wide vowels, like those in the words HEY and YEAH, on the other hand, are more helpful for chest voice, and could actually make it harder for you to enter your head voice.
Exercises:
- Thoo-ee 5-1 (high G)
- Hollow cuckoo 3-1, 3-1
- Sliding EEE- OO (head voice push up) 4-1-4-1
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Instructor: Abram Poliakoff
Abram Poliakoff is a singer, guitarist, pianist, teacher, conductor, and composer. He received a Bachelors of Music in Vocal Arts from USC’s Thornton School of Music and has been teaching music for 8 years. He is currently both the Associate Artistic Director and a tenor in the L.A. Choral Lab, which recently released its first studio album Sonic Visions in the fall of 2019. Abram teaches and performs a wide range of genres including Classical, Jazz, Folk and Popular music in the Los Angeles area. He has also sung with the San Francisco Opera and Pocket Opera in the Bay Area. His teaching mission is to help his students utilize vocal technique to find their authentic and healthy voice while maximizing genre flexibility and a naturalness of expression.