I've been sick lately

Hi, sorry it's been awhile. I actually injured my voice & got a cold as a result from having to sing too high at a job. I hate it when you have to sing above your range & push because you are getting payed & the songwriter can't change the key of the song.
Anyway, my voice is hopefully coming back little by little.
So a tip for all. Don't sing higher than you are used to.

do your own warm ups.

After becoming disillusioned with people taking so much & not doing the warm ups with us, on youtube, I figured we'll have to improvise.

So you need a piano so you can know what key to start singing in.


The reason you should practice with an instrument & not just random notes you hear in your head, is to firstly keep track of how much progress you are making. Secondly, hearing a piano while you sing is good for your ear training & pitch training as well.


So if you have no piano at home here are some cheesy online pianos:

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/music/piano/
http://www.pianoworld.com/fun/javapiano/javapiano.htm

Where you should start your warm up depends on your voice. Start comfortably. Not too low or high. For girls, Find middle C & go down a few notes maybe to G & do what Eric does, first go up & down the scale comfortably doing lip rolls & then start changing to to La la la & then different sounds like, ma & mu & li & da, yei & so forth. Doing different sounds works out different parts of your voice.
The hardest sounds to sing nicely are eeeeeeeeee sounds. Like the word "me", it tends to get all nasal. So practice that too, by opening your mouth/throat & make it sound more like ay. Of course I always thought the eeee sound was really modern so whatevs.

About Youtube vocal videos.

Well, sometimes they just blab the whole time instead of sing. I'm still looking for one where they just play the darn piano & do all the warm ups you need for 20 min.