How To Start Singing Again After A Long Break - Quickly Recondition Voice with 4 Exercises

How To Start Singing Again After A Long Break
- Recondition Voice Quickly with 4 Exercises

Haven’t sung for months or years? Here’s
how to start singing again after a long break.

Here’s 4 exercises to quickly recondition
your voice. And you can help me recondition

an historic building. What am I talking about?
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Hi, I’m Chuck Gilmore, International Vocal
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Today’s video is different. I’m going
to give you something of great value to help

restore and recondition your voice. In return
and I’m going to ask a personal favor of

you. I’m going to ask for your help to recondition
a structure of historical significance. My

daughter, Jessie, and her partner, Dave, own
this building and need our help. More about

that later.

After months or years of not singing, I’m
going to give you four vocal exercises to

quickly recondition your voice. I’ll teach
you these exercises using this historic building

as my studio.

I’ll assume you sang a little or a lot,
months or years ago and now you want to get

your voice working again. Your voice feels
“out of shape”. It’s been too long since

you’ve used it to sing.

Just like your body reconditions with the
right exercises, the right vocal exercises

can get your singing voice to come back again.
Your singing future is bright.

Our bodies are like this building. It was
a gem when it was built and remains a gem

now...just older. And like our voices, wear
and tear on this building takes its toll.

For example the front porch is sinking with
age. It’s like losing your high notes.

Maybe you weren’t “born” with high notes,
like this building wasn’t “born” with

a ramp for easy wheelchair access.

Your voice is beautiful, but like this building,
it needs some reconditioning.

Here are four powerful exercises guaranteed
to recondition your singing voice so you won’t

be embarrassed. Soon you’ll be able to start
singing again with confidence.

To make this simple, I’ll demonstrate the
exercises for you now. At the end of the video

I’ll give you a download link so you can
get all the exercises on your phone or computer

for easy practicing.

Exercise One - Bubble Lips - 1 ½ Scale

Why
This exercise is deceptively effective.

First, it helps stretch and thin the vocal
cords in a controlled and safe manner and

shorten them as well.

Second, it trains the vocal cords to adjust
from your low voice, (Chest Voice) to your

high voice (Head Voice) without straining,
cracking or breaking into falsetto and back

down again.

Third, it keeps the larynx down in a neutral
position. This enables you to sing higher

without straining and allowing the vibrations
to shift easily from chest to head voice and

back down.

How

Say “uh” as you place your fingers along
your jawline and lift your cheeks up. This

takes the weight of your cheeks off of the
lips so they are free to bubble without tension.

Now blow air through your lips while lifting
your cheeks and saying “uh”. [demo]

Use the 1 ½ scale as you do the bubble. It
sounds like this: [demo]

Because you’re reconditioning your vocal
cords, if it’s too high, you can come in

or stop whenever you feel you should. Also
don’t do it too loud. Just medium volume.

Bonus Exercises: Do the same 1 ½ scale only
this time use a tongue trill. It sounds like

this. [demo] If you can’t do the tongue
till...use the word “goo”. It sounds like

this. [demo] Notice it goes hooty as I sing
higher. It shouldn’t pinch for strain like

this. [demo]

[ On balcony filmed from below]

Exercise Two - Ney’s Octave Repeat Scale

This is another powerful reconditioning exercise.
It does many things at the same time. First,

it reduces the heaviness of the chest voice
and second, it deepens the head voice so it

doesn’t go into falsetto. Third, it connects
the tone when singing from chest to head voice

and third, it creates an even tone between
all the notes from bottom to top and back

down again.

Do this exercise medium soft, and add an exaggerated
sound like this using the Octave repeat scale.

[demo] You can gradually increase the loudness
over time slightly, but not louder than medium

loud.

The download will take you through a series
of Ney’s.

Bonus Exercises: Do the Neys on the 1 ½ scale
like this. [demo]

Exercise Three - “E” - Arpeggio Scale

Using the E vowel and a slight hooty sound,
this scale sounds like this. [demo arpeggio]

Say “oo” as in “new” and with your
“oo” lips, say “E”. Allow the “E”

to have a hooty sound as you sing higher like
this. [demo]

Bonus Exercises:
Do the same scale, only this time use Bubble

Lips. It sounds like this. [demo] Then do
the arpeggio scale using “Oh”. It sounds

like this. [demo]

Exercise Four - Mum

Using the Octave Repeat and the 1 ½ scales,
say “mum”. The Octave Repeat Scale sounds

like this. [demo] The mum on the 1 ½ scale
sounds like this.

General Instructions for All Vocal Recondition
Exercises

1. Don’t push your voice hard. Come in or
stop singing when you need to. You don’t

recondition your voice by pushing to extremes.
2. At first, sing these medium soft. Over

time you can increase the loudness to medium
to medium loud.

3. Discontinue any exercise if you feel any
discomfort.

4. Limit your total time daily to 30 minutes
a day. You may find it more effective to do

15 minutes twice a day.
5. There is no one best time of day to practice.

Find what works best for you.

So what is the Clubhouse and why do we need
your help. I’ve love to show you around.

Over a century ago in 1913, this architectural
masterpiece was commissioned by the Ladies’

Literary Club of Utah, a group of well-educated
and ...well-off women! who met regularly to

cultivate knowledge in history, science, arts,
literature, and politics.

While women all over the US formed these kinds
of social clubs, the Salt Lake City group

was the oldest women’s club West of the
Mississippi River (est 1877) and they remained

active right here in this Clubhouse until
2013, just a handful of years ago.

In 2016 this incredible hall was purchased
by my daughter Jessica and her partner Dave.

Through the support of their creative community,
they’ve renovated its features and opened

it to the public for events, performances,
weddings, workshops, recitals, etc

Sounds great, right? So what’s the deal?
I’m glad you asked! This month, October

of 2019, the Clubhouse is competing nationally
for a grant which would allow them to build

an ADA wheelchair ramp...

(Chuck: What’s ADA? Jessica: American Disability
Act

American Disability Act wheelchair ramp. The
wheelchair ramp is required…)

...and to restore the sinking and deteriorating
front porch, and tend to some of the historic

preservation projects required to keep this
beautiful building standing another 100 years

and to make it accessible to all people for
the first time in history!

Out of almost 200 historic sites across the
country (all related to women’s history),

Clubhouse is now 1 of 20 finalists for this
$150,000 grant! In order to win, they need

our help! Every day until October 29th, we
need YOU to get online at VoteYourMainStreet.org

to VOTE for Clubhouse in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The voting link is included in the PDF for
the exercises HERE, (up in the corner of the

video) and in the description area below this
YouTube video. If it’s past October 29,

2019, I’ll post the results on the download
for the exercises so you know the outcome.

So the voting link and the exercises you can
get on the same PDF.

Until then, VOTE daily at VoteYourMainStreet.org.
YOUR VOTE IS SO NEEDED AND VALUED! Thank you!

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I’m Chuck Gilmore with Power to Sing and
this is my daughter, Jessica. . You can sing

higher with beauty, confidence and power.

I’ll see you inside the next video.