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.
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
😂 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.
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.
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!
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)
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
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!
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!!
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.
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 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 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.
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 :)
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.
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!
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.
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
used to take voice lessons but that’s been like 8 years and over the past years i stopped singing, or am singing a lot less than i used to and i‘m not liking my voice nowadays. i used to be a mezzo, but in my school choir i sand alto. and i’m currently more comfortable doing alto warm ups compared to mezzo, bc my head voice is even worse than it used to be. i’m only 3 minutes in and noticed how it feels much better than the warm ups & exercises i did yesterday. i’m missing the lower range in most warm ups. hoping i’ll get back to how my voice used to be. but i know i need to stick to these. and i know you’re not supposed to have like a sore throat afterwards so i’m trying to figure that out for myself. :/ edit: still day 1 of doing this exercise (day 2 since i started doing vocal exercises again). wow towards the end i noticed how the transition to my head voice was A LOT better than yesterday. idk if yesterday‘s vocal warm ups helped getting rid of the „cobwebs“ but wow i really liked how this warm up went. i can’t access my vibrato easily, sometimes it comes out, but usually very briefly and not intentionally. and i could swear that it came through during the „oh“ exercise towards the end (the second last one). when i tried recording that part, of course it didn’t. hmm now i’m wondering if i’m imagining it but just transitioning from chest to head voice was a lot smoother. so… yeah i loved this. and i’m hoping i’ll stick to these exercises 😄
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.
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
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 😁🤗
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.
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!
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
my voice has been out of shape during the summer! no choir or musicals to keep it practicing. I was having a harder time harnessing my low range recently, but just a week of these warm up videos has really helped!! many thanks ❤
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!
I just had my first rehearsal for a solo in a musical revue. The musical director, who knows my alto is not great, expressed surprise at how I nailed my range. I told him I'd been working on it all week with your videos! Thanks so much!
Nice! If there are specific modes that your band does let me know. I've done a bit of locrian and mixolydian based warm ups in this playlist: ruclips.net/p/PL2mQP7sE6PHi3oZNbMUZkCkDXFwpL918N but am a bit overdue for more of that. Best, Jeff
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
really love those exercice, i do this everyday. My tessitura is precisely in the alto range i feel more comfortable in the alto than the tenor range, it is where my voice color is the best i believe! Thanks for sharing and caring! Best regards
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" 👑❤...♪♫♬
I love this one. I had to mature to the delicacy of singing this vocal warm-up. Thank you Jeff, you are my favourite specialist of vocal exercising, unstoppably since a few years. All good to you 🌾
Thank you so much! Iv just joined my church’s choir and haven’t sang since I was in middle school your video literally was amazing I felt way more confident than how I began! Going to be using this video often and I’m excited to look through the rest of your content!
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
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
Hey, Jeff! :-D I loved it! I´ve been looking for this kind of warm up several times, every now and then, and finally I found yours! This is the best warm up session I´ve ever had.
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!
omg, thank you very much sir! this help me a lot since this week, i have cough and cold. i am member of a choir in my school and we have to perform the national anthem and the prayer LATER. i'm really nervous coz my voice is not in a good situation but now, i finally am sure that i can sing my parts since my notes in the song is very low, like very LOW. I REALLY AM THANKFUL OMG 😣💖
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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.
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 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.
@@TheKitsukitsu Wow E2 that's impressive
I'm a male alto (too high for a tenor) and my range is B2-G5
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.
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!
God gave you what voice you needed from the beginning. So be thankful. And don't try to change what God did. God know what best for you.
@annierodgers539 God made me trans the same way God made wheat, but not bread: so that I can experience creation and change from within
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
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
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
I sing soprano, but this warmup is nice in the early morning XD
knory123 that’s what I’m literally doing rn lol
Same
Me too!❤
Thanks to you to think in exercises for al kind of voices ;;
You're welcome! My pleasure!
Jeff
Calentamiento vocal
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!
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 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’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’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
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
Favourite expression: gets pretty real by the end. Yeah - true that. Thanks Jeff.
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
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.
My 10000th time doing this! Probably...2023, still going strong! Thanks Jeff!
Right on!!!! Thanks for that! Keep going!
Me too! I have years doing this warmup is my fave
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 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 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 do two of ur alto lessons a day, thanks so much!!
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 :)
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.
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!
Jeff Rolka never disappoints!!
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
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!
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
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.
I have been looking for alto singing lessons in utube for a while. I really enjoy yours 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
I literally do vocal warm-up every day
used to take voice lessons but that’s been like 8 years and over the past years i stopped singing, or am singing a lot less than i used to and i‘m not liking my voice nowadays.
i used to be a mezzo, but in my school choir i sand alto. and i’m currently more comfortable doing alto warm ups compared to mezzo, bc my head voice is even worse than it used to be.
i’m only 3 minutes in and noticed how it feels much better than the warm ups & exercises i did yesterday. i’m missing the lower range in most warm ups. hoping i’ll get back to how my voice used to be. but i know i need to stick to these. and i know you’re not supposed to have like a sore throat afterwards so i’m trying to figure that out for myself. :/
edit:
still day 1 of doing this exercise (day 2 since i started doing vocal exercises again). wow towards the end i noticed how the transition to my head voice was A LOT better than yesterday. idk if yesterday‘s vocal warm ups helped getting rid of the „cobwebs“ but wow i really liked how this warm up went. i can’t access my vibrato easily, sometimes it comes out, but usually very briefly and not intentionally. and i could swear that it came through during the „oh“ exercise towards the end (the second last one). when i tried recording that part, of course it didn’t. hmm now i’m wondering if i’m imagining it but just transitioning from chest to head voice was a lot smoother. so… yeah i loved this. and i’m hoping i’ll stick to these exercises 😄
Keep it up! I hope that this, and the other practices on my channel help!
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
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
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 😁🤗
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!
Combining this with the tenor to get my warmups. Tytyyy ive never found warmups that work!
Thank you!
Such a great warm up. My alto voice feels so good.
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.
These exercises are so helpful.Thankyou😊
This is my favorite one for a quick warm up before performance. 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
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
This reminds me of my choir days, and I miss those days. Thanks Jeff :)
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 :)
6 years later and i use this a LOT. it helps me a a lot ;)
This is my favorite vocal warm up video out there.
update: i sound so much better i dont voice crack in the middle practice
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!
my voice has been out of shape during the summer! no choir or musicals to keep it practicing. I was having a harder time harnessing my low range recently, but just a week of these warm up videos has really helped!! many thanks ❤
That's great!
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
The warm up with the vowels is my favorite 💪🏾 I use this warm up all the time 😄
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
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
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.
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
I just had my first rehearsal for a solo in a musical revue. The musical director, who knows my alto is not great, expressed surprise at how I nailed my range. I told him I'd been working on it all week with your videos! Thanks so much!
Fantastic! Great job! Keep it up! You're very welcome and thank you for singing with me!
Best!
Jeff
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 :)
This was great! I'm a singer in a power metal band and I'm constantly looking for good warm-ups!
Nice! If there are specific modes that your band does let me know. I've done a bit of locrian and mixolydian based warm ups in this playlist:
ruclips.net/p/PL2mQP7sE6PHi3oZNbMUZkCkDXFwpL918N
but am a bit overdue for more of that.
Best,
Jeff
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!
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
i always return to this video it's my favorite 😭😭🤗
Gosh you're adorable- I love these videos! They're so helpful, thank you!!!
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
third video of the day! Thanks as always jeff - can't stop singing!
This one video has done for my singing than anything else. I'm a preK music teacher singing 10 hrs a week!
really love those exercice, i do this everyday. My tessitura is precisely in the alto range i feel more comfortable in the alto than the tenor range, it is where my voice color is the best i believe! Thanks for sharing and caring! Best regards
Thank you so much for this.
Beautiful voice! Thanks for that!
Thank you so much!
You are awesome!
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!!!!
This videos really really help me❤😊
I will gift my gift to God. Thanks for doing this
Not even a singer, only been in band, but damn, this is fun. 🗣🔥
I love this one. I had to mature to the delicacy of singing this vocal warm-up. Thank you Jeff, you are my favourite specialist of vocal exercising, unstoppably since a few years. All good to you 🌾
Awesome! Glad to be of service!
Jeff
Thank you so much! Iv just joined my church’s choir and haven’t sang since I was in middle school your video literally was amazing I felt way more confident than how I began! Going to be using this video often and I’m excited to look through the rest of your content!
Wonderful and welcome to the channel! Enjoy!
10/10 my fav vocal warm
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
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
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
Hey, Jeff! :-D I loved it! I´ve been looking for this kind of warm up several times, every now and then, and finally I found yours! This is the best warm up session I´ve ever had.
Thank you! Thanks for watching!
Jeff
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 Jeff Rolka, you make the far best exercises on youTube
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🙏🙏🙏🙏👍👍
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!
omg, thank you very much sir! this help me a lot since this week, i have cough and cold. i am member of a choir in my school and we have to perform the national anthem and the prayer LATER. i'm really nervous coz my voice is not in a good situation but now, i finally am sure that i can sing my parts since my notes in the song is very low, like very LOW. I REALLY AM THANKFUL OMG 😣💖
This really good from me I know can sing but I needs to get the Alto Full range of my voices thank you Mr Jeff Rolka.🙂👍👏
My go to warm up!