vocalisation

Here you can find different vocalisation exercises that will stretch your vocal cords, strengthen your diaphragm and sharpen your pitch.

They can also be thought as musical mantras, or as excuses to do singing laughter.

I share both the audio and the LMMS file just in case you want to adapt them to your vocal range.

brr and rrr: free your lips and tongue

1. Practise the sound brr where your lips should vibrate and the sound rrr with your tongue:

vowels: articulate/exaggerate

2. Practise vowels with the word mamemimomu, exaggerating the articulation of every vowel.

Consider as well to practise long brr's and rrr's without producing any sound, just by channelling a minimum stream of air.

intervals: perfect relative pitch

Forget about the overrated absolute pitch, which is more a curse than a virtue. Practise instead for a perfect relative pitch, based in intervals.

3. Choose a two-syllable word, or just two random syllables and practise minor seconds.

4. Practise major seconds

5. Practise minor thirds

6. Practise major thirds

7. Practise perfect fourths

8. Practise tritones

9. Practise perfect fifths

10. Practise minor sixths

11. Practise major sixths

12. Practise minor sevenths

13. Practise major sevenths

14. Practise perfect octaves

modes: expand your ionian mind

15. practise the ionian mode

16. Practise the dorian mode

17. Practise the phrygian mode

18. Practise the lydian mode

19. Practise the mixolydian mode

20. Practise the aeolian mode

21. Practise the locrian mode