Singing Warm Up - Alto Full Range
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- Full Range Alto Singing Warm Up
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Title says it all. A progressive full range warm up for alto range singers. Starts easy enough with some gentle descending scales, quickly moves on to smooth and somewhat faster arpeggio/scale combos. Finishes up with some lip trill, range development exercises and pure vowel exercises in the upper register.
Enjoy!
This guy just bustin it out on the piano like the king he is
love this. perfect for my range. my choir teacher doesn’t take the altos very low at all.
Exactly and I’m a male alto so I can sing quite lower than most of the ladies.
Mine has started telling me to just sing with the sopranos, since I'm the only alto, what a joy...
@@thatbchanel1994 same 💜
My high school choir teacher (I was in the girls choir, we had two teachers one for guys and one for girls) would only go down to about G3. But the alto section in general could sing down to about E3 and one other girl and I could get to about C3 with no problems. Safe to say, I left that choir.
Im completely out of vocal shape. I havent done this type of warm up in years. This was fun and challenging thanks for sharing☺
Wonderful! Enjoy the channel and thank you for watching!
Jeff
I FINALLY DID IT I DIDNT SCREW UP ON THE U-E-U-E ONE IM SO PROUD OF MYSELF
yeah thats the hardest part for me to
I have never not messed up on that part :(
@@sofiaarzamendia7747 think about it like you’re sort of singing a song, close your eyes and slowly lean into it
Congrats!
For those struggling with that U-E-U-E-U-E-U section try this:
Imagine you're singing your way out of a spiral starting from the middle working your way outward.
For those of you who are visual, try drawing an actual appeal from the inside out and use that to trace your finger on while you sing that part.
We did very similar in my high school choir and when my teacher explained we were singing a speak it really helped to get it right.
Wow, this is my range. My choir directors expect the Altos to sing to C7 and we usually don't sing lower that a G4
Paula Mendoza C7???!! what do sopranos sing????
Alto range is F3-F5, but obviously that depends on the alto. I’m a tenor my range extends from G2-C5. So I cover three different voice types. Baritone, tenor & alto
@@Billy24Wiccan06 no not alto buddy
I can hit a D3
😂 i bet its full of inhuman singer. You know. . .alto born to be able to sing low key at ease. If an alto force to sing at 7th note, it must be a bunch of super sopran then. 😂
Im a girl and also alto but my lowest note can be compared as the bass singer. 😂 its E2-G5 by chest voice alone.
I sing soprano, but this warmup is nice in the early morning XD
knory123 that’s what I’m literally doing rn lol
Same
I literally cannot do a lip trill. My choir teacher says I need to be able to do it, but it is physically impossible for me.
You might try out my method on my website, jeffrolka.com. It's free and I go through a detailed process to start the lip trill.
Best,
Jeff
I love you profile
Well your picture
Yeah I had a really tough time with this too. I kept trying it. I guess my best explanation is that you need to make sure your lips are barely touching but also moist. also make sure to get a big breath and then breath out hard. idk if this helped me do it.
What helped me was to keep my mouth as relaxed as possible and start a lip trill without a note, just a plain lip trill. Additionally, you can place your index fingers lightly on the edge of your lips (barely there)
I'm a high soprano, but I need to work on increasing my range downward and this helps! Thanks!
I accidentally sang this like 2 octives up 😅
@@user-kt1no7yx1u 🤪 is it even possible? 😂
@@geometriaswiatla I don't know if it is or remember commenting this
Thanks to you to think in exercises for al kind of voices ;;
You're welcome! My pleasure!
Jeff
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This is amazing. I'm Mezzo Soprano but I couldn't comfortably sing most of those notes so I went to this one haha.
Do the alto warm up until you're comfortable and move to the mezzo soprano warm up because the one that correlates with your vocal fach will help you better
@@makr-thefabuloussonofgod1729 thanks
haven't thought about actually SINGING singing in a couple years. Thought I'd pick up singing while in quarantine. This was so nice and refreshing and just challenging enough! Thank You!
Wonderful!
Don't know if this is the right place to comment, but this warm up is of tremendous help. I'm a transgender woman and hormones won't raise the voice and surgery is way too risky (and expensive) to consider. This warm up helps with voice training so I can have a voice that's at least a bit closer to what I'd wish and to move safely in the world without risk of being discriminated against.
Thank you sincerely!
Yes! This is the place to post! I'm glad that the video and practices therein are serving you well! There's a lot of material like this here on the channel, and additional material on registration events, which would also help with your vocal tessitura.
Best!
Jeff
Trans woman too and my voice is naturally feminine so I guess I'm privileged, but I still want it to sound higher
I don't know if I can naturally raise my tessitura to mezzo or soprano but I'll give it a try !
Thank you Jeff ❤
@@JeffRolka I'm in the same boat (kind of - I actually have a bass voice that I like, but also want girl voice on top!) and I have enough range to just about manage this one in a nice, strong head voice, and also to manage your bass warm-up. I'll check out your other stuff. Thanks!
I am a female tenor and i need to be albe to sing alto so that i can get into nyssma, this really helped me warm up
I sing counter-tenor, I've found the alto range warm up to be perfect. Thank You.
Same! It always makes me happy to meet other countertenors
Jeremy Padovani that’s awesome. I just previewed your music on RUclips. Really nice voice. Great control!
Very Nice I'm a Countertenor as well. I sing comfortable in the Mezzo Soprano/Soprano Range! 😊
Same!
i'm a countertenor singer sir
Favourite expression: gets pretty real by the end. Yeah - true that. Thanks Jeff.
Since I'm an alto and i can play piano, i could use these scales to warm up my voice or my fingers! prefect!
Jenna Keith
Yeah! Obviously you don't need to be an expert on piano, you just have to play the notes in your scale and warm up your voice!
omgg i spot a tøp fan! 👀
i’m a soprano 1 but i’m singing alto (not a very low alto part) for a song and this warm up gave me a whole new respect for you low range individuals
I practice this every Sunday morning before going to church for choir practice. Helps a lot. Wakes up my dead throat/voice
im high soparno but i love these to work on my lower notes
I play your warmup so often that it started playing after my track at an open mic... and more people recognized it than my song.... thanks for the fun, Jeff!! And for improving my voice!!
Oh wow! That's amazing! Thank you so much for sharing that with me. Really made my day!
Jeff
This was very nice. Gave me nostalgia of my chorus days in middle school.
I used to be in choir and I've missed doing warm ups, so this helped soo much. I've been singing since the 4th grade and I'm 19 now. Gave a like and a subscribe!!
I sang for 8 years in groups and solo, but stopped entirely when I went to college. It's been 12 years, now, but going through these warmups with you gave me all the wonderful warm and hopeful feelings of sitting with my singing teacher in her studio. Thank you for making these videos, they are invaluable.
I’ve been using this video every time before church performances and I can definitely feel my voice more open and warm! Thank you so much Jeff
update: i sound so much better i dont voice crack in the middle practice
I do two of ur alto lessons a day, thanks so much!!
I have never found a warm up that works for me/my belt until this one. I have to belt my face off twice a day for my job and this warm up has truly changed the game for me and my voice. It has become a part of my daily routine! Thank you for this.
I recorded myself doing these! I know I'm awfully out of shape and I wanted to see where I needed to work harder. Thanks for this! I know I'll come back to it again.
I’m definitely not a singer but I loved this warmup. I was watching a comedy sketch about altos on Instagram and I decided to find a video demonstrating the different vocal ranges. It took like 5 minutes and I discovered that my comfortable singing range fell into alto. I played the viola for a year in elementary school and switched over to the trumpet in the 6th grade. I continued playing until high school. I fell off and it’s been almost 7 years and I’ve basically lost my chops but I still know my scales, I can read sheet music, and I have a fairly decent ear. I was never very good at sight singing though. I wanted to take AP Music theory my senior year but the class was full so I took Theory 4 which was basically like Theory 1 I imagine(I wouldn’t know I started in Theory 2 sophomore year). It was a bit of an adjustment because for a while I was failing my theory class because I hadn’t taken the previous course but I eventually caught on and learned. In middle school I got a new band director who was the former general Ed music teacher and he basically taught us like we were just learning our instruments. The high school I went to had a Visual Performing Arts program that I wanted to take but I neglected to audition(I don’t know how I didn’t know you had to do that to get in). So when I signed up for music classes the summer before freshman year I hadn’t realized that I was signing up for more general ed classes. I enjoyed it though, I learned how to play the piano a little bit, and had what was kind of like a music appreciation class. The teacher of those classes was also the marching band director and so I wound up being in marching band. I met a guy named Carl who was a junior and a good friend. The next year I saw classes like Class Piano Music Theory 2(I thought to myself I never took CPMT 1 lol), Concert Band, And Applied Music Band(which was just basically study hall for practicing). I thought it had been a mistake on my schedule but it turned out Carl had recommended me to join VPA to the director of VPA. I also wound up being put in Jazz band without asking because I would stick around after school and sit in and play with them. It was one of the most fun experiences of my life and I met a lot of cool people. I got to challenge myself and developed a love for music. The school even had volunteers who came and gave personal lessons to each instrument section(each of us got a particular lesson day). I thought I’d pursue music in college but I didn’t apply myself grade wise(it was pure laziness). I had the same slack attitude with my core classes as I did with studying and instead of being 1st trumpet my senior year like I thought I’d be, I was second(although I did go from 3rd trumpet initially to 1st trumpet behind a girl named Bethany a year ahead of me, who was like neck and neck with Carl; two of the best trumpet players I’ve ever met). I’m trying to get back into playing again but it’s difficult after such a long time of not consistently practicing. Sorry for the long story lol.
im an ex soprano and ive never been happier singing now than when i was a soprano. being an alto is so much more comfortable. thank you for this video, it was very helpful :)
OMG this is my exact range. Like, very very perfect, super confortable and didnt need to force. Thanks 7 years later
You're welcome! Happy to help!
Singing is my passion. Ever since I heard Crystal Gayle’s cassette when I was little. But I kind of sucked. A vocal instructor told me I was a soprano. I thought, I can’t sing any Whitney or Mariah, I must suck. I JUST figured out that I’m an alto. My point? This is a GREAT vocal warm up video.
Thanks Jeff. I'm a singer and vocal trainer myself, and I LOVE doing my vocal warm ups with you. Thank you for a fun, easy going, progressive vocal warm up. You rock!
Thanks! I really appreciate that! Enjoy!
Jeff
Just got over a month-long respiratory issue. Time to clear away the cobwebs with this fabulous warm up! Thank you!
Wonderful!
I literally do vocal warm-up every day
I love this guy after two kids and months of not singing I've noticed a huge difference in my voice thank you so much sir
This man is an absolute LEGEND, the amount of effort he puts into these videos 🔥💯
Thank you so much! You know what they say...job worth doing...worth doing well. I appreciate your kind words! Enjoy the channel!
All the best!
Jeff
man i’m so thankful i’m an alto hehe it’s so powerful, thank you for these!
My 10000th time doing this! Probably...2023, still going strong! Thanks Jeff!
Right on!!!! Thanks for that! Keep going!
I have been looking for alto singing lessons in utube for a while. I really enjoy yours jeff! 😊
This is great! Everytime I sing off key I see Jeff smiling just a little bit :) Thank you, it felt like a private lesson face to face.
Awesome! Keep singing and I'll keep smiling!
Jeff
I seem to be a mezzo-soprano but I can comfortably hit all but the lowest note here (I think an E3). I go down to F3/F#3 comfortably and up to about an A5 comfortably.
Love it man, but you are killing me. I am a newbie. Just working with my first vocal coach here in Minneapolis.
Thank you! Glad to hear that you're in lessons! Keep it up! If you're new to vocal training, might I suggest some of the videos in this playlist:
ruclips.net/p/PL2mQP7sE6PHg8wjZBjfJ3HGVqjxBF2swE
They are really more 'fundamental' than 'beginner'.
Even if you've sung for some time, vocal training is different, and limiting range and speed can help establish the practice more easily.
Thank you!
Jeff
Jeff Rolka never disappoints!!
This reminds me of my choir days, and I miss those days. Thanks Jeff :)
ya know, sometimes I hate having a wide range bc I have to go to three different warm-up videos, thanks to you I only have to go to two!
Same! What’s your range and what videos do you use?
@@ashleybrown8552 I'm not the op but I'd probably have to do this, E2-E6 is my range but my full range is E2-C#8
I’m a singer. This had totally rid my voice of hoarseness when needing to belt it out a lot! I do this everyday! Thank you
Dude, you just saved my life... I learned 20min ago that I'm alto and this is my first vocal lesson and I've never been able to cross from high to low or vice versa without hitting a turbulent patch where my voice 'breaks' and kind of sounds like my throat is dry.. but during these warmups towards the end I was doing things I've only seen on movies!! Totally handling my business high to low and I also did things I didn't even know I could do.. some of the sounds I've never heard come from my body before.. kinda weird but amazing.
Excellent! Keep up the great work!
Jeff
Just happened upon this video and I am glad I did. I have not performed vocal exercises in years. I just put my daughter on a bus to perform with our region's honor choir. Feeling nostalgic and missing my choir days....those days I HATED warm ups. Thank you for making this available. It definitely tested my range.
Awesome! Glad you found us here. If you have questions or just want to say hello, drop by my weekly live event. Here's a link for this week's:
ruclips.net/video/swWjCwgvfCM/видео.html
Thanks for watching!
Jeff
My go to warm up exercise video. Thank you Jeff!!!! 🎶
This was so lovely. I'm in my 30s and was terrified of singing for years, only recently started training my voice.
I gathered so much trauma from my school's music lessons!! The teachers would simply separate boys and girls. That's it. No sopranos, mezzos, altos. Just GIRLS. And BOYS.
I'm definitely no soprano and it was humiliating and painful to try to sing those high notes with other girls. I just felt like I had the smallest vocal range in the entire world and felt like there was something wrong with me because I couldn't perform as well as the other girls, most of them having very high voices.
I literally did not realise that altough I could not sing the same things most other girls did, I was actually able to reach notes that the other girls could not. I just felt like I was lacking something and that was it. No benefits.
So every warmup was just stress and pain because I was set up to fail and the teacher never really explained that we weren't expected to sing absolutely every note thrown at us.
Anyway. Thanks for the warmup. It's the first one I've ever done which felt natural and easy. No pain, I did not sound screetchy, my voice did not break... I was just singing, comfortably, and it sounded nice.
Excellent! That is why these are here! Enjoy the channel and more importantly, enjoy your singing voice! There's only one of you, only one of your voice!
Jeff
@@JeffRolka Thank you ☺️ It's good to keep in mind that we all sound unique! So many singers strive to sound like their idols and forget that they are special too and have something new to offer.
I'm definitely enjoying the channel. Your videos are brilliant ❤️
I am a high soprano and I just wanted to say YOU ARE JUST AS IMPORTANT in the vocal world. You have your place in it and I'm not able to touch what you can do. I may hit F6 but I can barely scrape middle C. You guys rock! Seriously!
@@courtneygrier2015 And middle C is where my brain starts to go 'oh no, must we?' 😄! Most of my nicest sounding range is below the middle C. My lowest comfortable note is D3.
C3 is doable with some extra thought on technique, and still sounds nice.
B2 is where I pretty much hit a wall. It's pure on a good day but unreliable and uncomfortable, better to avoid.
I really love this warm up. I have used it countless times over the past couple of years to prepare for gigs. Thank you so much!
Been using this everyday to warmup before rehearsals, and omg THANK YOU!! I've tried other basic vocal warmups, but how this is geared towards altos helps sooo much 💜 And that "ewi-ewi-ewi" exercise has helped with a cracking problem I have going from chest to mixed 😁🤗
6 years later and i use this a LOT. it helps me a a lot ;)
Thank God I found this lesson. I am doing vocal warmups since a year now and I always strained my vocal somehow after the warmups, though I kept my vocals nice and relaxed. I was very worried because I actually used to sing better earlier, though doing all those exercises developed my bass but still it did not feel natural. So I thought to check my vocal range and found out I am an Alto. I tried this vocal exercise and viola right after the first exercise a big smile on my face. I definitely felt relieved. Thank you so much. I have been learning on my own and figuring stuff out is really difficult in internet but finally I know which exercises to followup on.
My school is doing beauty and the beast and I REALLY want to be LeFou, but I don’t think I’m that good so I’m practicing
I am a soprano but it's kinda fading away so I'll start off with alto then try to work my way up.
How's it going?
I love this f****** guy. You’re awesome. This is the best alto warm up I’ve ever found. His personality is just charming while doing what he loves.
Thank you so much! Big Love right back at you! Enjoy the warm up! Very glad that it's serving you well!
Such a great warm up. My alto voice feels so good.
The warm up with the vowels is my favorite 💪🏾 I use this warm up all the time 😄
It's 4:20 am and this helps me with relaxing to go to sleep and vocalizing so once I get back into the choir. I'll be ready. Last time I had anyone tell me which range I was a mainly tenor/alto five octave range but hopefully once I get back after practicing I should be in the same area or maybe a little more
I find the lip trilling singing so hard, so I just practice at a level where I can! I practice a lip trill with no melody, or maybe one or 2 notes. It helps me warm up my lips, so I have even a CHANCE at achieving what Jeff is teaching
Definitely if you're still struggling, it might be worth investing in a brass instrument mouthpiece. Practicing with that helps build facial muscles. And keeping the mouth tight (the word I'm thinking of sounds like om-brish-ur but I'm not sure how to spell it). I hope if this helps and isn't repeat information you've heard a million times!
i always return to this video it's my favorite 😭😭🤗
I will gift my gift to God. Thanks for doing this
God, has helped me through your gift of vocal training, to develop my voice to "sing about His glory", I am so thankful, I am beginning to ENJOY MY VOICE much more because I am doing so "with knowledge, understanding and wisdom" Hallelujah unto GOD, that "gives and takes away" 👑❤...♪♫♬
Thank you! Enjoy! I appreciate your contributions to our comments and to our live events! Thank you!
Best,
Jeff
Thats exactly what I’m going through Trinity!
Amen! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Amen!!!! Amen!! Same here!!!! Thank you GOD!!!!
So on our most recent backpacking trip, as we finally arrived huffing and puffing at our campsite, our teenager says that one of your your catchphrases worked perfectly for the trail we were on: Starts out pretty chill, gets pretty real by the end😜.
That's awesome! I might've come up with that phrase on a backpacking trip myself! We're scheduled to head off in early August, but if the fires get too bad, we'll have to cancel. An all too frequent occurrence sadly!
Tell you teenager I said 'thanks for watching' and keep it up!
All the best!
JEff
This is my favorite one for a quick warm up before performance. Thanks Jeff!!
Always in the last min never give up even if you feel you want to, don't. It's all worth it.
Yess at last, alto is the top of my range
Combining this with the tenor to get my warmups. Tytyyy ive never found warmups that work!
All warmed up once again with a set collection of your videos! Thank you, Jeff!!!
This is my favorite vocal warm up video out there.
Why is it that my throat feels tight and sore after about only 4 minutes? I'm trying to use my abdomen to sing, but it feels super awkward.
Old habits die hard. If you have the habit of using too much vocal fold engagement adding additional abdominal engagement will be part of your solution, but you also have to cultivate more release at the vocal fold. Try singing with the softest viable sound. By that, I mean that the sound is in tune, of consistent quality throughout the sale, with good vowel alignment. That may help you start the process of balancing out airflow and vocal fold engagement.
Best,
Jeff
Fun! I especially love your expressions as you play. It seems you're actually listening and I even stand up straighter when you look into the camera. Thanks very much, I've really enjoyed warming up with you!
Awesome! I'm glad that you're enjoying the warm ups! Posture is key! (pun intended! ;-) )
All the best!
Jeff
Trying to work on my lower range, but this is so hard!!! So low! Thank you for the uploads, I’ll alternate between this and mezzo.
Every now and then I try other warm up videos, but always come back to to this, you can’t beay this one, Jeff is brilliant .
Fantastic work Jeff ‘
thank you for this warmup!! it’s perfect for my voice and i’m trying to do it every morning :)
Thank you!
I stumbled into this video after randomly finding out that my vocal range falls somewhere near alto. I can't point to what it is but there's something about the way you teach that just makes it so comfortable to follow along. I'm looking forward to explore other stuff on your channel
MaeLSTRoM1997 Mr. Rolka is the best!!! I’ve been doing this warmup about every day for two years now. I’m glad you’ve joined the community! Welcome :)
You’re like a more put together version of the guy from step brothers and that’s a compliment
I appreciate that, thank you!
I’m performing for my church today and I’m sick so my voice is weird but this really helped. Thank you (:
Edit: Everyone said I sounded great thank you so much!!
This is exactly what I've been looking for, thank you!!
thank you so much for making this video! so helpful! I am trying to get back into singing it's been so long-- and it's a challenge! But even from doing this for a few days I hear myself get more on pitch and have more control! thanks a ton!
Hi Jeff! As always, thank you for this Alto warmup!! It's amazing how much I improved in the last 6 months I started your daily warmups. From Baritone to Alto (sometimes mezzo-soprano), the accuracy of the pitch throughout the different vowels pronunciation along the accuracy of pronunciation of the different vowels throughout the pitch have both increased tremendously. Forever grateful!
Excellent! My hat is off to you for your dedication and practice! Keep it up and enjoy your voice!
Jeff
Thanks God for giving Jeff Rolka to us.🕊️
Thank you, very kind! I appreciate it. Enjoy the channel!
Jeff
This really helps I am a alto but I was kinda struggling with the last 2 low notes. I’m trying my hardest to get my voice higher my range is F3-G5
Thanks again for these Jeff. I do both your tenor and alto warm ups to try and extend my range - makes sure I practice twice a day :)
You're very welcome!! Thanks for your kind words!
Jeff
Gosh you're adorable- I love these videos! They're so helpful, thank you!!!
I LOVE YOU JEFF. Your warm ups give me so much peace. Thank you
Lots of love right back at you! Thanks for watching and enjoy!
Jeff
Getting back into singing again and was recommended this video, thanks!
I really love this! Thanks for you service of sharing and caring!!!!!
This was so helpful! Thank you so very much!
I’m a male alto and I do these warm ups before every show, thank you!
I haven't been singing seriously for 2 years and have lost my upper range. Great warm-up and here's to recapturing notes over b flat!
Thanks. I love the way you teach. You don't talk much but directly telling what should we do. It s really very practical. Love it🙏🙏🙏🙏👍👍
love doing your warmups before a performance they really help !
Awesome!!! Glad that they're helping! Enjoy the channel.
Best,
Jeff
Jeff, I want to thank you for these videos. I use this one in particular every Thursday night before “open mic.” You’re the best!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate that! This video really gets a lot of love and I'm glad it's working for you! Thank you for watching!
Jeff
Hey Jeff, this is super useful for altos! Hooray!!
My headtone was gone because of lack in practice due to this quarantine. THANK TO YOUR WARM UP VIDEOS! I'm slowly regaining my voice.
All glory unto GOD, this is my #1 "full range warm up" video, GOD has used you in my life tremendously, my prayer is that you come to the knowledge of the truth that has EVEN created you which such an amazing gift, with understanding and the ability to teach, all for God's purpose, and I, also bless you as God will be faithful to Himself, in the name of Jesus!
You are an AMAZING teacher, unto the most High I esteem your gifts, thank you for being selfless and sharing without financial gain, what you share via RUclips❤
Thank you! I truly appreciate your words and feel very blessed in my life. I love teaching and am very happy to know that these videos are serving you well.
Thank you!
Jeff