STANDARD TUNING

OBJECTIVE

This conditions you to sing in the 12 scales. This warm up is mainly to loosen up the cavities under the frontal cortex and the upper nasal cavity loosening the soft palate. As you vocalize your resonance should be focused there. Humming naturally stimulates that area so that is another way to tune up.

Scales are important.  Most of the time the sheet music is written in the scale of F or G for easy piano playing with only one shrap or flat compared to 4 sharps in the key of E.  This typically is 4 scales off from the original scale.  If you have practiced to the original song, and the piano player or yourself is playing the simple scale sheet music, you will have to adjust your singing to that simple scale and not fall back on your memorized practice notes of the original scale.

HOW

Go to your lowest note and play the chord of that scale. Then correctly finger that scale going up. Take a breath. Then finger that scale going down.  Move up a semi tone. Play the chord of that scale. Then finger that scale up, take a breath, then finger the scale down. Repeat this to the highest note you can sing. Remember to focus your resonance to the frontal nasal chamber under the frontal cortex. By humming you can feel this area.  Note duration is quarter notes.  Keep the inner smile as you do this.  Feel the vibration in the nasal cavity while at the same time opening up the chamber in the back of the mouth and resonate that also.  This produces rich sound.

Then repeat this tuning but this time resonate the chest instead of the nasal cavity.

PRO TUNING

Do the same as above but tuning is extended to two octives in length.  Note duration is eighth notes.  Make the “yy” sound right before the vowel sound to make the vowel sound distinct.

Do twice a day.  After a week you will notice it’s effect.

TUNING APP

You can use a tuning app to see how accurate you are when singing the notes.  You can record your tuning on a DAW that has pitch correction to see your accuracy.