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As athletes have to complete warm up exercises before a race or a game, singers need to prepare their voices before a rehearsal or show. Singing warm up exercises get the air flowing and relaxes your muscles to prepare for the more demanding activity to come. It is possibly the most effective technique to prevent vocal weakness and overuse damage.
It may seem counterintuitive–more exercises to prevent overuse injury? Yes. Your vocal folds are controlled via very small muscles, and when they’re warmed-up they really are more flexible, a lot easier to utilize, and less liable to injury.
Before beginning your singing warm up exercises, carry out some whole-body stretching and relaxation. Start with the “rag doll” exercise. From a standing position, bend forward at your hips, allowing your head and arms to dangle freely. Shake them a bit, then just let them {dangle for another minute or so. A good exercise to begin with is the “rag doll”. Stand upright bending forward from your hips. Then allow your arms and head to droop and dangle for a little while.}Follow that with a stretching exercise for proper posture alignment. Stand together with your feet flat on the floor, approximately hip-width apart, and your arms at your sides. Bring your arms rapidly up and across your chest in a circular fashion until they are above your head. Now up onto your tiptoes, breath in deeply and continue to move your arms up. As you gradually exhale, bring your arms back down to your sides and come back down to flat feet. Make sure to keep the chest up and shoulders back, as they were at the top of the stretch, after bringing your arms down. You are now able to begin singing.
The first singing warm up exercise uses a technique that goes by various names: buzz, bubble lips, lip roll, or lip trill. Breathe out through puckered lips to produce a vibration, sounding a bit like a speedboat or even a “raspberry”.
involving three tones: the base tone, up a fourth, and back to the bottom (do-fa-do): within the key of C major, it would transpire C,F,C. Repeat, moving up a semi step each time (C, F, C, then D,G,D, then Eb, Ab, Eb, etc.). You can also do this on the syllable “ee” or “oo”, but the buzz forces you to use good breath support.~The buzz slide will be made between three tones: the bass tone, which is up a fourth, and then back to the base. (do fa do) so in C major the notes would be C, F and C. You want to replicate this and after that move up a semi-tone every time. Do this as well with the syllables “oo” and “ee” but the buzzing technique makes for you to make use of great breath support.}The next singing warm up exercise is the fifth-slide. Begin on the fifth tone with the syllable “wee” and slide downward to the base (so-do): in C major once more, it would be G, C. Do again on the same tones with “zoo”, then move up a half-step and repeat, “wee” and “zoo” on  Ab and Db. Remain moving up with half-steps.
After that is the five-tone descending scale. Beginning on the fifth tone, descend stepwise to the base: so, fa, mi, re, do. Firstly do the syllable “na”, next “nay”, “noh”, and “noo”. Go up a half-step and do again the scale on each syllable.
The fourth singing warm up exercise is a descending 8-tone scale (do, ti, la, so, fa, mi, re, do) on the syllable “noo”. All over again, move up a half-step with every repeat. You can additionally attempt further vowel noises, such as “nah”, “nay”, “nee”, or “noh”, or use “m” instead of “n” as the opening consonant. Strive to feel your mask, or upper resonance, when you perform this.
Follow that with a descending arpeggio: do, so, mi, do, on the syllable “nah”. Say again on “nay”, “nee”, “noh”, and “noo”, after that shift up by half steps and repeat on each syllable another time.
The final singing warm up exercise is the octave slide. Bring into play the buzz and begin on the base note; slide up an octave and back down to the base: do, do, do. Repeat on “oo”. Move up a half-step, execute the buzz, and followed by “oo”. Carry on moving up by half-steps.