Perfect Pitch is the most important exercise - 40 min {twice a day if you are a pro}
This trains the ear to know intervals. It trains the voice to sing the exact pitch by "jumping intervals" practice.
Three Note Walkup (consecutive intervals)
Play and sing three consecutive notes of a scale. Then move up a semitone to the next scale and repeat. Start at your lowest note and stop at your highest note.
Jumping intervals --- (in all vowels and in all scales)
Examples: [the last root note can be eliminated]
Root note always first, then 4 5 4 then root last [sub dominant, dominant]
Root note always first, then 3 5 3 then root note last [chord]
Root note, then 3, 3 flat, 3 then root [minor]
Root note, then 6, 4, 6, then root [sixth]
Root note, then 8 then root [octave]
Make up your own sequence comprising of eight notes. First play the root note, then 3 notes that are in the upper part of the scale, then 3 notes in the lower part of the scale, then the root note again as the final note. Practice custom sequences in every key and every vowel. Always the root first, then the sequence, then the root as the last note. Mentally think and feel the note positions in the scale as you vocalize them. Besides the vowels you can vocalize the scale positions with words - examples: one, three, five, three, one.
Zig Zag 4 (up and down)
Root note first [1], then 4, 2, 5, 3, 6, 4, 7, 5, 8
Zig Zag 5 (up and down)
Root note first [1], then 5, 2, 6, 3, 7, 4, 8
Slides
A continuous raising of one note to the next note of a scale. Start at your lowest note. Go through all the scales until you reach your highest note.
Knowing the Interval Spacing
Minor Second = Jaws (a semi tone, a minor second)
Major Second = Frere Jacque Minor Third = Madworld. "It's a ..."
Major Third = David Bowie’s. "Let’s Dance"
Perfect Fourth = Summer Nights "Summer lovin" - Grease Movie theme
Perfect Fifth = Star Wars theme, ET theme "da da"
Minor Sixth = The Entertainer "da da"
Major Sixth = "My Bonnie" lies over the ocean
Minor Seventh = "Somewhere" West Side Story "There’s a" Place for Us, Maria
Major Seventh = "What a" wonderful world - Louis Armstrong
Octave = "Some Where" Over the Rainbow - from the Wizard of Oz