Off to start with. On, it sounds even while you are looking elsewhere.

Exercise 1 of 8

Diaphragmatic breathing

Standing, one hand on your belly. Breathe in through the nose for four, feeling the hand move out; breathe out through the mouth for eight on a steady "s".

01:00

To the end: 10:30

The sequence

  1. Diaphragmatic breathing01:00
  2. Sirens on MMM02:00
  3. Lip trill01:00
  4. Humming01:30
  5. Open vowels A-E-I-O-U01:30
  6. Tongue twister01:00
  7. Fifth leaps on NG01:30
  8. Gentle glissando01:00

If anything pulls or hurts, stop: a warm-up should not cost effort. None of these exercises is done by pushing.

The sequence is the standard one — breath, sirens, lip trill, humming, vowels, articulation, leaps, glissando — in the order it is done. It is a starting point, not a method: take the lengths that suit you.

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How it works

  1. Pick the length — quick, full or extended — and see how long it takes in total.
  2. Press "Start": the timer counts down and moves to the next exercise on its own.
  3. "Next" and "Back" move you by hand; the chime on change is off until you turn it on.

What it does

It takes you through eight exercises, one at a time, showing how long is left on this one and how long is left overall. It moves from one exercise to the next on its own.

The three lengths

Full runs ten and a half minutes and is the sequence as written. Quick halves it, extended adds a half: five and a quarter minutes, or fifteen and three quarters.

The total is written next to each choice, before you start, because that is the number you decide on.

You can change it mid-sequence: you do not go back to the top, you stay where you are.

On the sound

It is off to start with. Someone opening this page is about to sing, and setting a chime off in their face is not a service.

On, it sounds when one exercise gives way to the next — two notes going up — and two going down at the end. It sounds even with the tab in the background or the phone face down: the chime is scheduled ahead of time on the sound card’s clock, which is the only one that does not slow down when you look away.

On the sequence

It is the standard one: breath, sirens, lip trill, humming, vowels, articulation, leaps, glissando, in the order it is done. Breath first, then sound without effort, then range, then words.

It is not an author’s method and it is a starting point, not a prescription. The lengths are not all the same because not every exercise asks for the same time: a scale up and down has to be taken slowly, while the lip trill does its job in a minute.

Before you start

If anything pulls or hurts, stop. A warm-up should not cost effort, and none of these exercises is done by pushing. If a leap will not come, the answer is to start from a lower note, not to force.

On your data

Everything happens in your browser. Nothing is sent or stored: the only thing that outlives the page is the chime volume, for this visit.

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