5 Minute ⏰ Voice Warm-Up Challenge (opera) | LUCAS MEACHEM 

Just did this on the way to church. Now I sound awesome! Thanks, Lucas!

Wow. This is total genius. Thanks so much for sharing. As you know YT is massive for upcoming generations in opera, and it boggles me that more of your contemporaries don’t do what you do on YT (obviously it takes time and you clearly enjoy it). There are some teachers putting out fab material, but apart from sporadic interviews, opera singers hardly show their actual reality. This disparity from reality has a negative impact on future generations because they don’t ‘see the picture’. Thanks for sharing ‘the picture’. Shall definitely give this 5min-er a go! Thanks muchly!

Love this.....it's practical for those of us who have day jobs who have to run home, change clothes, and then have to sing beautifully after putting in an eight hour day. I haven't had a voice lesson since COVID hit..nice to have your very own world class singer at the click of a button to give you pointers.

Hello Lucas, Thanks for the video. I am also a baritone and sing in church on occasion. Singing, "The Lord is My Light," at 9:30AM can be a killer with a G2 at the top. I make sure that I am either jiggling, dancing, or moving my body up and down during warm-ups to get my whole body warmed up!

that is SO MUCH to pack into 5 minutes. Love it

You’re awesome! We need more cool guy singers on youtube like you! More advice for pro singers please :)

amazingggg!!!!!! wowww The best content I've ever seen. Definitely more videos to come.

I am looking forwards with more videos like this thank you so much for this one though , 😘

Hello beginner in lyrical singing. Baritone too. Your videos are precious to me. Your videos are good and well explained. Thank you lucas

That was super helpful! When in concerts/recitals you have plenty of time to warm-up but then need to wait for your turn for 1hr, this quick warm up is perfect!

Thank you!

I like how disciplined you are. As a baritone this was not such an issue for me unless it was a performance before 12pm in which case it takes me hours of showers and scales and prayers to get in 80 percent voice . Otherwise I would just sing some 9th scales throughout the range and maybe some octave leaps into long notes and warm up the rest on stage haha 😂 but after I started singing tenor repertoire it was a whole different ball game because you really need to constantly be hitting your highest notes, warming up on stage is not an option . If I have just 5 minutes and it’s a time of the day where it is possible, I get my French horn or trumpet and play high notes for 2 minutes to get the air working . Then I sing 2 octave scales quite quickly starting in the low octave and trying to at least pass over my top notes . If that isn’t working more horn and then sing arpeggios going back and forth to the highest comfortable note with the most tilt possible . That said sometimes if it is 7pm etc I don’t need to warm up because I have spoken enough all day that I know my voice is warmed up. And sometimes it’s just too early and no amount of warm up is going to make the impossible happen.

Beauty! Thank you my good man! I start with [i o oo a ei i] mid-range (sung and unsung with just air) to open up the jaw and focus on the air particles passing freely all the way up into the frontal sinus. I really like the 'Aiing' directional movement Pavarotti talks about in Jerome Hines' "Great Singers on Singing", just helps the placement go to the right place for my passaggio. Stacato exercises on "AWE" in the lower range and then followed by 9th scales back into the passaggio while maintaining the "AWE" posture. Meuller Manaeuver with the Flagstad NG really helps so I don't over compress into the top. That all usually helps but I am a helden tenor so I need 47 hours to warm up.

Just saw you last night at the Santa Fe Opera as Eugene Onegin and you were SPECTACULAR!! Kudos on being amazing both onstage and off!!

With only 5 minutes, I would combine tongue and lip trills, up and down the scales. Yours ROCKS!!!! I need lessons... 😁

😍👏👏👏👍🏾🥰😘🙏🐺I like the wolf howling best!😘😍🤣😂 awesome 5 minutes!🥰😍👏👏👏👏yeah so precious ! Thank you so much! 😘

Keep goingg❤

You're great

Thankx 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Everytime i make it with you. It is funny Thx for all videos

You Show them, Lucas!!!

Bravoooooooooooooooooo💯

As an emerging novel writer, I'm using your warm-ups for my book's characters .. they too are finding their voice and sending you thanks. I call it Voice Judo or Voice Yoga. The path for resilient characters'.

I could never warm up in 5 minutes...good for you! You say that Lip trill is Life for you...could you break down your version of lip trill...a lot of space or little space at the back/front teeth....exact position of the tip of tongue...and whether the middle or back of tongue changes as you ascend...do you think of a particular vowel during lip trill..Thanks for your input!

Love your videos Lucas

I'd love to see someone use a videocamera and duplicate Jerome Hines's interviews with great singers on their technique. Thank you, Mr. Meachem, for what strikes me (still a work in progress) as a very wholesome approach.

Great

Question of the day: to have such a brilliant voice, do we have to have bright blue eyes like yours haha ?! Thanks for the video!

It would be great if this series comes for 10 minutes. and maybe it would help us a lot if you could get a guest for the mezzo sopranos.

Excellent! Remember the Tequila for 30 seconds warm up :)

May I add a comment. I like everything you are doing to warm up. It is kind of funny watching you, but great to see. My only question regards "nasal resonance" I was taught as I'm sure you were also taught to place the sound forward. I think now that there is no "nasal resonance" this from the research of Dr. Ingo Titze. I am not sure what to call it, except to say, in my experience I found a security by singing more through the nose, especially once when I was really sick. I learned that as long as my throat remained open and larynx stayed low, I felt totally free to sing loud and soft outside in Orange, France So, I don't know how to explain it, but it worked. I would welcome a dialogue with you about your thoughts. I wish you continued success and especially a long, healthy and happy life. marcus haddock

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When I was young, I could do a 5-minute warm-up and usually got my voice in serviceable shape (I was never a professional singer...). I usually did a few non-singing breathing exercises, such as the sss exercise, and the quick short breathing out that you also do. Made some ugly nasal sounds to find the placement. Then sang a few easy phrases in the middle and low registers lightly, and threw in a few light high notes. That's it. But for now when I'm nearly 50 of age, I need much more time to warm up, especially with the breathing support.

Do you have a video on specific targeted voice "exercises" for male opera singers?

This is gold - your routine is excellent and I'm going to follow as a leggiero tenor. One question, do you prefer doing this seated over standing - or should it even matter.

Absolutely love your videos. Was just wondering if for the next one you could elaborate a bit more on when it is a good time to go into a specific warm-up. In the case of this video I think it was for ah that you were listening for something in your voice before you attempted the ah. What exactly were you listening for? Otherwise thanks for the info.

I suppose that other than practicing vocal abilities you also practice lines individually by speaking them? With all that has to be communicated that must also be very important?

This was so interesting to watch as a Jazz vocalist. Thank you for sharing🌟🌟 how long and what do you suggest singers do everyday? I do 40 minute warmup routines🥲. Am I doing something wrong?

Are there piano exercises that work the free edges on the vocal cords? :)

i wanna learn how to sing!

How to sing Vibrato?

I m indian and My voice is not such that I can sing opera but I have to learn opera in any condition.. Plz give me some tips sir...

If I do this in a bus, I would end up in a police station/mental hospital

YOU BARITON O TENOR?

Hi there, why do you touch your nose? around 2 minutes in

ok so the blue eyes were a bit too bright, bring the blinds down next time please! k thanks.

Some good ideas here, but the nasal bit is going to encourage the error of forward placement or placing the voice in the mask. I also suspect you are forcing the jaw down rather than letting it get to the right place by relaxing.

Man you forgot to lick your hand when stretching your tongue

Thank you!