Foolproof Daily WARMUP for Singing High 

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I typically sing sober, but I see your point.

Tried it, and it was like 80% raspy air. 10 minutes later, I'm cooking and practicing your melody, then like magic, a clean high C just came out. Good stuff.

Warm ups, yes, I need to adopt that.

"I warming up my mind just as much as I am my voice". That's the key!

This is clearly one of the best examples to check on chest, mix and head voice / warm-ups. Amazing Chris!

7:20 look Chris' head moves really fast he has entered a completely new realm of singing 👻✨

For me, I've noticed that singing gently during my morning routine seems to help me warm up for the day I feel like if I don't sing early in the day it's harder to warm up later Just me? But I'm really grateful to your videos for helping me learn to safely use my voice better and grow as a vocalist

This is literally what I have been waiting for. I am currently working on my headvoice/mixed and trying to blend to sing higher. Thank you yet again Chris!

Thank you for all that you do, brother. I’ve appreciated your approach for being so holistic and whimsical. Hope to take one of your courses soon.

I used to sing all the time when I was in school and when I was in a bad for school but after graduating with class 2020 I stopped my vocal warm ups and training and thought I couldn’t sing like I used to but now after trying this I feel confident again in my voice and realize I can still sing like how I used too. Thank you for this video🙏😊

These videos are always so good, I've been struggling with singing in my break and mastering my mix this seems like a great exercise to help with that thanks Chris!

This is solid gold. I’m applying it to my life every day from this day on.

I came here because of jeff buckley 🤠 this was super helpful thank you!!

Fuck yes. Literally just singing high notes after seeing MCR and Greenday. They were amazing and hearing their voices live inspired me so much. My wife mentioned my voice sounding good and now I'm more obsessed than ever with playing my voice and your Gerard Way, Cornell and various other videos have been essential to my improvement. Seriously thank you. I have a bunch of projects (animation/music) and might be reaching out to you. I look forward to meeting you one day maybe lol.

Love this Chris, I feel like I'm finally getting past the fear of letting my voice out more clear and much louder and freeing.

This is incredible! I've finally found what the next step was in seeking consistency and freedom - chord closure! When I go high I was losing chord closure, this warmup is everything for me right now

This warmup is magic.

Cant believe the great timing this video have, like just today i needed this Also just bought your master class course on aggressive singing and it's so great, best buy ever

just finished my morning vocal routine and seeing this now! gonna try it out

This brought back so much resonance for me!

I love it when you expose your break to me, Chris

I watch this every day to help me sing punk and rock music, thanks Chris! Any tips for female screamers? I am not ready to scream but I will eventually when I get more control

now I'm emotional I would never think of this and someday I'm gonna hit c5 but of course good closure and amazing mindset done that for me.

Love the way you teach Chris. Thank you 🙏🏻

This approach changed my whole perspective on singing. Such a great technique!

Ahhh thanks for another freaking gem brother Liepe🙏🙌🙌🙌

Chris!!! I had a question that I think would be very interesting if you talked about it in a video! I am currently in a Into To Singing class in college and one thing our professor does that is interesting is that she does not use the typical "head/chest" register descriptions of singing but rather much more anatomical descriptions of what the vocal folds do to produce the sound. It goes: Thick fold - "Chest voice" Thin fold - "Head voice" Stiff fold - breathy (I'm not sure I'm remembering this one correctly) Slack fold - Vocal fry. I found these anatomical descriptions to be extremely helpful for me to understand my voice and I'm wondering if you've ever heard of them! If not, it'd be cool to see a video about you exploring these new, more exact definitions!

My favorite head voice warm up for sure! No other warm up really helped me until I found yours!

Going to start tomorrow! Thank you so much

This is way more interesting and thoughtful than the old school scale warm-ups I used to do in choir practice thank you

Posted the day after watching (and attempting to follow) your Chris Cornell videos. The timing is almost eerie

Thanks for answering a question I had for a long time. If head voice - mix and chest voice had a sort of "blurry" border. Now I see that of course there are benefits to mix voice, it does sound fuller. But at the same time if you want a lighter version because the song requires it. You can also do that. As a stylistic choice sometimes keeping your head voice could also work. Although I admit that I need to be very aware of my support during mix. MOre than during head voice.

Man this is perfect for me! Never did this or really any warmups before but im catching on quick thanks to you

I was working on my mixed voice for a while and there was a lot of things in my head like "is it chest or head? okay now I do it different way is it still head voice or mix?" but while doing this warm-up it just triggered me to bump in an unfamiliar but comfortable position and sound. And you know, that was really the first time when I realized that I made a good mix sound which is full, relatively loud but not strained or screamy. That. Was. Cool.

This works!! Just tried this on the way to rehearsal. Amazing results. We do Toto's Rosanna. Tough high C. Hit MUCH more comfortably and then an A5 on Def Leppard Let It Go. Thanks, Chris!

Hi Chris, It's a great exercise but I wouldn't call it a warm up. Maybe I'm being too picky 😅 I use the term warm up to describe excercises that use all the muscles and structures involved in singing in the same way we warm up to run or play sports. Focus is on activating short and long muscle fibers, increasing blood flow and relaxation by stretching and release of any tension in the body, head or neck. That's warming up. Then I move on to exercises such as your excellent one in this video to work on specific techniques. In this case to avoid tension and "reaching" for high notes by practicing placement. You've got a lot going on here and it's great that you break it down. Very valuable. Starting in head voice. Don't reach! learning to blend head to chest voice going down Learning to blend chest to head voice going up. Learning to extend head and chest voice without tension and understanding your limits and increasing flexibility. Making specific choices about how you want to sing a passage to get the sound you want. This is all really great advanced stuff that takes practice to learn and before singing something that requires you to use those techniques is great to practice them before singing the song. But this is not warm up This is technique practice. Thanks for putting this out there for everyone. Kudos for supporting singers to achieve their goals by giving back in this way!

Thank you for your work! it`s literally must-have for every vocalist!

Thanks Chris.. Always on a 100%!!

I had never ever thought of STARTING in head voice and descending, my voice automatically goes into chest voice and each time I do this it gets better!

This actually really helps to find / improve my mix… I’m doing it on every vowel up and down my range … next step I’m going to work on my distortion

Awesome Warmup!! All of your warmups are amazing! I use them daily, and it makes such an amazing difference.

great lesson!

I always like to start with my head voice when I warm up, way softer for the vocal apparatus especially on bad vocal days and I actually also get suprisingly good results for my chest voice, in my resonances for exemple ! I sometimes also do start in chest voice, but only with resonant sounds, trying to feel the vibrations in my body using different consonants and mouth/jaw placement (chest, spine, back of the neck, cranium). This is also a fairly soft and good warm up (chest or head) to ease into a richer sound and get a good feel for your vocals

It is 8:28 am and I thought I could sing all these notes that i usually sing but i cannot do it, thank you so much man!

Hey Chris, please do videos of daily warm up & workouts for chest, mixed & head voice.

Thank you, Chris!

This is a great approach Chris thanks!

This is perfect for the songs I like to sing, thank you

Great lesson again, clear and convincing! :-) seems like a good way to "beef up" the higher registers

Saved to singing Playlist. Awesome.

Transitioning between the resonance in the nose. Genius

I always thought about this when I practice songs, it all makes sense now thank you I’m following your videos from now on ♥️

exercise start: 2:11

Great technique brother thank you

Well. This let me discover a voice i didnt realise i had. Brilliant

Thank you, Master! 🔥

NOW, this is perfect during my morning shower. I like to multitask 😅😊

This is absolute diamonds!!

This really is a great tip. Thanks!

lovely...

Thank you, brilliant stuff, as usual :)

dude thanks for these

So rad dude, cheers. So helpful

Fantastic, great exercise!

This was helpful. Thanks for sharing

Thanks!

Thanx, Chris. Beste Grüße aus Deutschland 👋

Thank you this is the best

I'm a metalhead but I practise head voice by singing Madonna - Like a Prayer and its actually helped increase my range and power. Like a Prayer isn't a particularly high-pitched song, but its the consistency, the drawn out notes, no belting or sudden spikes that really helps and enforces proper technique. Its like getting strong lifting weights by lowering the weight and using really good consistent form.

Cool!

you should make a video like this like 5 minutes after waking up so we can see your actual warming up process

Thnx I found this helpful

Absolutely stellar video chris. Thanks for the post. Any chance you could check out the song "hey man nice shot" by the band filter? He does these screams in the chorus very similar to maynard from tool. Would love your insights on it, and keep up the wonderful work, god bless ya!

"Don't Change" a thing IN(XS) this exercise ;)

You are absolutely amazing Bro. I love everything I have seen from you. Would you please critique ‘Black Sabbath’z Sabotage album’ with “Ozzy Osbourne???” I am interested to see what you think of his high notez on this album. Maybe if you would compare some of this to Ozzy’z other Black Sabbath music or his music as a Solo Artist (your choice.) Even the song ‘Sabbath Bloody Sabbath’ (from the ‘Sabbath Bloody Sabbath’ album) although a little pitchy at pointz towardz the end of the song is sung in a high range. Of course back in those dayz they basically just recorded live. I love the dramatic feeling of Ozzy’z voice. It’z Theatrical with feeling. Love or hate it… all Artistz have fanz for a reason. It movez them & takez them to a place that they enjoy the feeling & the ride getting there. I have been a huge fan of Ozzy for yearz. People love for me to sing Ozzy’z music. I am so glad I found you. I am a HUGE FAN of yourz. Thank you so much for everything. You ROCK!!! 🤘😎🤘

So THIS is why I like warming up with Coldplay!

There are vocal exercises and vocal warm ups these are 2 different things so I don't know which exercise is a warm up and which one is a vocal exercise please if you may create a list of vocal exercises and vocal warm ups i would really appreciate it

Done.

ever since I started T head voice is actually harder for me to access than belting 😭 def gonna check if you have warmups for head voice bc I can sing that note after a while but when I start the video it's a nope even in head voice

I never thought you'd work from high then go lower.

This is great, thanks. After just one session practicing with you I feel more comfortable with the chest/head break (I usually get stuck in head when I get up there and can’t get back down until I stop and take a breath). Could you let me know the notes you are singing so I can practice with my keyboard? I can tell C-A-F-A and that it ends on a C but can’t work out the rest.

Hey Chris, Any chance you analyzing Snot's singer Lynn Straits vocal technique? I haven't seen any other channel taking a shot at him since his career was pretty much short-lived but his only studio album was an interesting deviation from formulaic Ñu-Metal.

@chris I looked through your videos (MAN that's a lot of content!) but didn't see one specifically about getting better cord closure. If you've made such a video, could you post a link? Thank you!

i can easily do the head voice warm up but adding that edge without over straining or grunting will be the bane of my existence. you and Bohemian vocal dude do this with such ease and no heavyness, i'm at my wits end after 2 years to get this without bring weight up. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! please help lol at 6:46 you switch into mix, what are you doing in your throat to make the change?

I swear I’m getting de ja vu after hearing this exercise. I feel like I’ve heard it before.

Thanks heaps for this video Chris. It has helped me figure out what I really need to work on. After attempting this exercise a couple times, I feel like I am struggling to get good chord closure in head voice and I am unsure how to fix this. When I am doing the vocal pattern in the video I feel like there is an air leak in my vocal chords and at times I run out of breath (especially if I dont take a short break between attempts). I am also finding that if I drink water between each attempt, it helps me get a cleaner (not raspy) sound. I am noticing this only in my head voice. Is there anything I can do to strengthen my chord closure in my head voice? Or do you have any other suggestions that I could try? Any help is greatly appreciated!

It's certainly good exercise. Is there some method to extend my vocal range upward? I'm not even close to your higher notes...:) Edit: Thought it's impossible, I did it though. Question of attitude, I think. Thank you, Chris. I get it into my daily routine

You shouldn't sing high. The professional move would be to wait until after your set to get high.

This is a great lesson but I think I broke my head voice from years of improper singing... Can't seem to find it no matter what I do.

Great video! I feel I am blocking my head voice sound somewhere. Having trouble figuring out what I’m doing wrong. Do you have a video specifically on troubleshooting your head voice to get that bell sound you are getting

"I'm already starting high" yeah, that's that's the things...i Menan thing, what, that I was going to say.

I just sing high and dry by radiohead once through

Start this warmup from absolute dead cold?

Hey Mr.Liepe, if you dont mind, can you do a deep analysis video regarding Jon Bon Jovi awful performance during 2022 Tour recently? it has been criticized by people lately, and i want to know what is really going on with his voice, and things i need to do to prevent it from happening to me.

Awesome, I gotta try it! Also, a question (as always 😂): I learned how to make distortion using your "breaking" technique and it works pretty well, BUT (of course there's a but) often, especially when playing a show, I can't make the "break" as short as possible, so instead of a powerfull gritty sound I get a ridiculously sounding voice (sounding like someone who can't sing a simple note for shit). How to make this break before getting into distortion shorter, so that noone would even notice? Does it have to do anything with support?

Chris is that one breathe?

Jeff Buckley type stuff all day right here!!!! Have you done any vids on him?

Is it normal when I try to sing a bit quietly, the voice might not come out immediately and appears as just air?

Remember the Frito Bandito commercial? That’s what I use to warm up. Check it out and see if it works for you