vocal warm-ups from elizabeth's workshop

 Vocal Warm-ups

SOUNDS

* Feel a pulse in your diaphragm with the following sounds

unvoiced: PUH PUH PUH PUH PUH PUH PUH PUH
VOICED: BUH BUH BUH BUH BUH BUH BUH BUH

unvoiced: TUH TUH TUH TUH TUH TUH TUH TUH
VOICED: DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH

unvoiced: KUH KUH KUH KUH KUH KUH KUH KUH
VOICED: GUH GUH GUH GUH GUH GUH GUH GUH

*Go through all the beginning consonant sounds

Bay-buh, bay-bah-bee-buh, bay-buh-bee-buh-bye-buh, bay-buh-bee-buh-bye-buh-boh-buh, bay-buh-bee-buh-bye-buh-boh-buh-boo-buh.

Day-duh, day-duh-dee-duh, day-duh-dee-duh-dye-duh-..... (etc)

B D F G H J K L M N P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

PHRASES

Red letter, yellow letter	Good blood, bad blood
Eleven benevolent elephants	Teaching ghosts to sing
The big, black-backed bumblebee	A critical cricket critic
Selfish shellfish	Really rural
Unique New York	The tip of the tongue, the lips, the teeth
To titillate your taste buds, we've  got these tasty tidbits Toy boat, toy boat, toy boat Beep, bip, deep, dip, reap, rip, sheep, ship	Hemorrhoidal removal Aluminum, linoleum, aluminum, linoleum Red leather, yellow leather

PARAGRAPHS

Trinidad!

And the big Mississippi

and the town Honolulu

and the lake Titicaca,

the Popocatepetl is not in Canada,

rather in Mexico, Mexico, Mexico!

Canada, Málaga, Rimini, Brindisi

Canada, Málaga, Rimini, Brindisi

Yes, Tibet, Tibet, Tibet, Tibet,

Nagasaki! Yokohama!

Nagasaki! Yokohama!

What ta ta do to die today at a minute or two ‘till two,

A thing distinctly hard to say, but harder still to do,

‘Fore they’ll beat a tattoo at a quarter ‘till two,

With a rat-a-ta, ta-ta-ta, ta-ta-tattoo,

And the dragon will come when he hears the drum,

At a minute or two ‘till two today,

At a minute or two ‘till two.