5 Minute Vocal Warm-Up (You Can Do In the Car)

I feel like vocal warm-ups can cause a lot of stress for singers that is completely unnecessary.

I think the stress is if I don't warm up, I'm a lousy singer, which of course is not true, though I do highly recommend some kind of warm-up because it just gets your voice and your body ready for more athletic activity.

Or it's the stress of, "I don't really know what to do.

Should I do 30 minutes? Should I do five minutes? I don't have any time before my gig.

I have to drive there for two hours." Like, it just stresses people out because they feel like, "I should do it.

I don't really know what I can do that's gonna make a difference in the time I have in the way that I'm able to do it." That's what today's episode is all about.

I wanna give you a quick five-minute maximum vocal warm-up that you can do in your car because I realize we would all love to be able to get to a gig at least an hour early right after soundcheck and lounge in this wonderful green room and stretch our body and do all of these great things, and I hope you get the opportunity to have those times.

But I don't care how high level you are, we don't get those times always, right? [laughs] I wish we did, but sometimes it's like, hey, you're on in 10 and you, like, just got out of a van or just got from the plane to the car.

And so ideally the time that you had to work out your voice is that drive time.

So this is just gonna be four different exercises, four different things you can do in the car without a lot of thought because for heaven's sakes, I want your eyes and brain on the road.

[laughs] Don't hurt yourself, y'all.

I will be traumatized.

So safety first, of course.

But none of these take an instrument.

They don't take you doing anything besides looking at the road, focusing on what you have to do, and stretching out and working your voice a little bit.