Good warm-ups/exercises to hit low notes?!


Question:

Good warm-ups/exercises to hit low notes?

When I work on my higher notes, I tend to lose my lower ones. I sing high a few times and then go to lower notes and realise I can't hit them anymore.

so my question is... Are there some good exercises that help me sing my lower notes?


Answers:

this is a phenomenon that happens to most people who have normally higher voices. Mezzos, altos, baritones, and basses are generally exempt.
Three things to think about: how do you start your warm-ups and how do you ease into your upper voice? (This will provide a clue for the next phase: if you aren't sufficiently warmed-up in your mid register before you start moving up, you will start to force or strain on your throat muscultature in order to get some of those top notes.)
do you warm up your upper register before your lower register? ( you wouldn't set up a statue without knowing that the pedestal is carrying the weight properly, would you?)
after you are done singing in any one session, do you cool down again? ( specifically, do you touch one last time in your middle and lower registers to make sure there is no tension left over?)
OK, a couple of effective low register exercises:
on a descending 5-3-1- arpeggio, the vowels ooh-ah-ooh. Start somewhere middle-ish, like key of Eflat, and start moving down, half tone by half tone.
Probably around about middle c, you should feel the switch into your lower register, perhaps a little higher, depending on if you are a very high soprano or tenor. It's quite all right to switch into "chest voice" at this pont, if you stay aware of the fact that you don't need to sound like a truck in low gear. A good carrying low note in chest voice to the outside world is a slender-feeling stream of sound to you. ( the difference between a flashlight beam and a laser beam- the laser beam carries)
the ooh vowel should help you focus into that tight beam of sound. You'll find it feels very much as if you were speaking in terms of the amount of jaw, throat and mouth opening involved, nice and easy, not too large.
another exercise is to "siren" down by octaves on an eee vowel. Be very sloppy in terms of intonation, but very alert as to breath flow and throat/mouth/jaw opening. The upper note will be the most open, and the lower notes will gradually become more slender. Low notes need no overextension of jaw or mouth, they need less space, without getting anywhere near tight or closed up.
don't be too upset if your lower register is not your strong point. Most classical sopranos don't need much below the A220 ( a below middle c), except as a sturdy base for the rest of their voice.
Best wishes and keep on singing


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