How to Warm Up For True Singing Freedom! (See my complete daily vocal warmup) NO Drills, NO Scales! 

Your voice is in between Freddie Mercury and Matt Bellamy and my mom when I forgot to do the dishes.

I’ve trained for YEARS and I’ve never experienced vocal freedom like this before! I sang notes I haven’t hit since college, and my belt was so effortless compared to before! Thank you so much!

Your warmup is like your body downloading the voice files haha

This video is gold. I just learned more about my own voice in 20 minutes than in the last 20 years. Thanks a million.

I cannot overstate how valuable it is to me that you put yourself out here in complete vulnerability to demonstrate how all this works. Your courage is contagious, and it’s helping people. Thank you. Also, 17:45 sounds like the lead up to a very intimate sensation.

This warm up is like a meditation 👍

I feel the wind blow...proper stuck in my head now

You are the first guy who's methods I tried and actually had some results. Thank you.

This video has changed my singing forever. Ive always been naturally good at singing since i was 3 yrs old, and ive been singing in a band for 4 years. The way you explain things is so easy for me to understand and it explains a lot of stuff ive been doing right and stuff ive been doing wrong. My band was blown away when i came to practice and started doing some Paul McCartney stuff lol. My range was instantly improved after warming up like this and watching your mixed voice video. Apparently it was the right information for me because now i can sing some lower range stuff like Danzig all the way up to Queen and Coheed. I literally have not stopped singing for 2 weeks straight just singing stuff ive always been able to kind of sing but now im just nailing them tone and all. Big confidence booster for me man im going to do myself a favor and watch all your videos! Lol so much good info and ive been telling everyone i know who is interested in singing to check you out. I couldnt believe you only had 77k subscribers, you definitely deserve more!

Must be fun to live next door to this guy. But seriously, thanks Chris for sharing your nontraditional warm-up.

The warm up looks as fun as singing tbh

I love how authentic these videos are. I really love the real ness and they do inspire me and keep me from trying to hard to perfect at first

I’ve watched probably dozens of hours of singing lesson videos and taken singing lessons. You sir, in this video, single-handedly helped me find my head voice in a way I’ve never felt. I literally didn’t know I had a head/mixed voice capability until I was just messing around trying the things you did in this video. Like I actually added distortion/growling up there and everything! Crazy, unconventional but in the best way.

This video is remarkable, maybe revolutionary. I used this before an open mic night and it transformed my approach to singing. I embraced all my voice does and took an overall approach to looseness to my singing. Yes there were some mistakes but my overall singing was free, easy, and expressive. I didn't get hung up on specific things. I found passages I used to struggle with are now EASY if you allow your voice ...DONT force!! Yes. Great. Focus on his words here as much as the singing. This video is a blessing to me.

Doing this along with you. So much more fun that traditional warm ups, plus I'm getting plenty of laughs as my dog is giving me the most peculiar looks and rawring along with me! Thank you :)

I keep coming back to this video before a gig. It's a great cure for all my Impostor Syndrome-symptoms... felt it creeping through the last few days, my thraot blocking out and doubting myself every step of the way... I can cope again now. So thanks again...and again!

Absolutely love the Jeff Buckley-esque quality of your upper register vibrato.

what i really love about Chris is that he shows you that when you study it might not sound perfect and gracious eheheheh keep it up Chris.

The thing that help me warm up is singing some of my favorite songs for 10 minutes

HOLLY COW! I watched this, and... POW! I did the warmups, and I sung amazingly after doing so. I usually warm up my voice by jumping in to powerful mixed voice straight off. but after doing this exercise routine JUST ONECE! my voice, my singing, and my mind just felt free. my headvoice register has been a weak point in my singing for a long time. but not any more. I feel like I have so much control over my voice now, and I can easily transition through high falsetto to mid/low grit singing. before, I would try warming up with powerful mixed voice, and my transitioning between soft falsetto and grit was sudden, and my soft singing was too quiet and hard to control. now I can easily (with control, and smooth transition) hit soft, high, soaring angelic sing, to powerful and emotion filled low/mid gritty singing. TLDR: it is like I unlocked a hidden power. I have more control over my voice.

I love this and I can't wait to try it! (Once my husband leaves lol). Traditional vocal Warm ups expect perfection and basically that you're already warmed up in order to do them.

I came here to refamiliarize myself with a more formal warm-up approach than what I've generally been doing... And then I find that my approach has been just fine. But wait, there's more! I learned some important things to change also!! Thank you very much Sir. Instant Fan!

i have seen great improvement over the days i have used this warm up…. thank you

...hi dear Chris... ...I'll tell you something... ...I've (very carefully) been doing something really similar to you, since the 90's... ...and you validate this method, so I'm very happy for this... ...I used Sheila Shandra music (CD "Quiet", for instans, 1988) 🎼🎶🎼 for it... ...it becomes really very natural and, as you say, "floppy"... ...and my voice became prettier and prettier... ...I'll say it again, I love your teaching style... ...(& not only your teaching style, I must explain)... ...indeed... 💕🕊️🎼🎶🎸🎤🕊️🎤🎸🎶🎼🕊️💕

I love your technique. It’s a lot better than the traditional method.

Thankyou Chris for your vulnerability and transparency. I love your intelligent, practical, intuitive, creative approach. Thankyou for this gift, it works a treat.

It's so comforting for me to hear another male with my tenor register who enjoys working in his head voice. That's how I used to warm up when I was able to sing Chris Cornell's master pieces Badmotorfinger and Superuknown back to back when I was 25. You inspire me to try to retrieve those types of notes that i've been afraid of for a long time. I'm 46 years old so I only have a few years left to play in this register.

I too refuse to warm up utilizing scales. Mostly because it's mind numbingly boring, but I agree about the inherent likelihood of introducing tension. I'm a Bass/Baritone that has a lifetime love of Rock and Metal, so I've spent the majority of my life developing my Falsetto range (with controllable levels of Grit) so that I could roughly imitate my favorite singers. In the last year, I've learned to access Mix and am working on strengthening my newly discovered Belt ability. I warm up in a similar fashion as you, Chris. But, do it to music throughout. I start by lightly humming along with the Bass line except an octave higher and slowly increase my volume. As that gets warm I'll throw it down and sing with the Bass. Once that's good, I'll go back to light humming in low to mid Falsetto range either with the singer or the guitar, again, slowly increasing the volume and VERY SLOWLY adding in Grit. Usually at this point I'm pretty good to go; takes 8-10 songs or 30-50 minutes from a cold start. On days when I know I either have a gig or rehearsal, I'll hum along with songs most of the day. From there, the warm up can take as little as 10-15 minutes. I've had people ask after hearing me sing with heavy Grit in high Falsetto how I don't have chord damage. I tell them that apparently I'm doing it right, because I've been singing that way since the late Eighties. 🤘🏼🔥🤘🏼🔥

i’ve watched this a couple times now and i am absolutely blown away. i love how meditational this is as well. i can literally hear that you haven’t got any tension and i’ve never watched a video like this before. woooow i’m speechless. i’m so motivated now jesus i have to sleep at some point ahhahahah oh no edit: it feels like i’m listening to jeff buckley edit no.2: i’m gonna listen to jeff buckley now

This benefits me so much more than the scale! It helps the singing and screaming, makes it easier to engage my head voice, and gain complete control! Thanks man

Best vocal coach on the web! PERIOD.

Chris I cannot overstate how useful this video has been for me. I'm always in a dark room - bar cellar/basement before every show and it's stopped my voice becoming exhausted and is much more powerful and clearer. Thank you so much.

this is literal gold because it actually helped me yesterday and just now too, my voice even grew a bit more on the range.

I've signed an event for 20 years screaming my freaking head off not known any of these things at all. I am totally amazed at the things that you've shown me. Thanks Chris

Relearning my break is something that has been very frustrating to me so it's really great/interesting to hear that this is something I should expect as part of warming up

This is the best warm up ever.. seriously. Thank you!

This is tremendously helpful. My range is a little over 4 octaves, and I belt and scream over the whole range, so being able to warm up my whole range evenly has always been a challenge

11:17 YESS!! I notice that when I sing in chest voice or use chest voice, I kind of refresh the vocal fry and it adds me the power to sing high notes if i 'ran out' of the voice texture when singing quietly high notes using the mixed voice technique And also I feel this vocal fry texture the most in the mornings

Absolutely stunning and so generous to demonstrate such a great warm up session. Loved it. Its kind of trip you put me to.

I am very very very glad I have found this channel!!! Everything seems so easy to understand and follow!

Best vocal tuition on RU-vid!

A word "floppiness..." I immediately clicked subscribe lol

Brother I couldn't agree more with everything you said here about warm ups. This is precisely how I do my warm ups and it's something I also encourage to my students as well. Keep up the good work Chris. God bless you sir😀😀🤘🤘🤘✌

This is GREAT! I'm adding this on to my Zen of Screaming warm up. Really appreciate your videos Chris.

This is called a recording session for Yoko Ono.

I'm now paying attention to my vocal chords to use the top side of vocal chords and my throat doesn't get dry and scratchy feeling and the lower push let's me sing out when going to higher range like in the song "" WILDFIRE "" by Michael Murphy THANK YOU!! and I use the yodel style for warm up and your right on breaking up/ cracking / squawking working thru to smoothness for about 10 minutes I'm a OTR DRIVER and have the privacy to not ex intimidated by anyone lol a little Frye is very helpful THANK YOU AGAIN wish I could spend a hour PERSONALLY bet you could really make me sound good I'm just karaoke but used to do some songs well 20 years ago now being 60 I see if you exercise your vocal chords your voice really doesn't change as critical as a person thinks lol

I followed you in that warm up and it was the best one I have ever had. That is for sure my new warm up routine. Thanks man!

Beautiful. Truly grateful for this channel. Much Love!

Even your warmups sound good hahaha by far the best all around coach on RU-vid! Thank you so much for the content. I've been looking for good information on mix voice and support and I always see the same people on RU-vid who all say the same thing and then sell a course that still doesn't have the answers. You my friend are just giving us this info and it all makes sense. Very trustworthy and honest. Keep up the good work.❤️ Notifications on

This warm-up has completed changed the complexion of voice, amazing! Thank you Chris! 🤜🤛

I've only seen two of your videos and part of this one, but my voice already sounds so incredible. Thank you so much for showing me and so many others such amazing tips!

Thank you for sharing your insights Chris. This acknowledges my personal thoughts on warming up. Im used to warming up the classic way but I always feel like my body takes more time to wake up when practicing through scales. It’s like I’m forcing myself when producing counterintuitive sounds. I prefer warming up by following where my body leads me. It also makes warming up much more fun. As a female vocalist I practice intentional vocal workouts on a daily basis (2 rest days). So good warmup and cool down is essential. Now that I know the intuitive warming up is ok, Im going to use it more.

This was fantastic and I had so much fun doing this warm up

Ive been watching your vids for awhile and it's led me to discover my voice beyond what I thought I was capable or comfortable with and it's made me so comfortable making those wierd cracks during band practice thank you so much dude

Im still fascinated by your Videos Chris. You are one amazing man! I have never practiced this regular but since i found your channel im really into it. Much love!

Man, I absolutely love your approach. You're awesome. Please keep doing what you do. I'll keep learning.

I cannot put in words how thankful I am for your willingness to help people. This is valuable stuff that's gonna help me go to the next level

Man, you helped me so much! Due my anxiety disorder I almost lost my high notes in the voice. Now I learned something new how to relax my singing muscles and sing with freedom. Huge thanks!

Wow, simply phenomenal.

Chris, thank you for helping me find my voice again!!!

Hey Chris, I love this video. It'd be great to see another follow up video on free warm-up idea!

Thank you! You teach very useful things without giving us unnecessary information, really thank you.

Great stuff. Things that will add more internal awareness to where one is in terms of looseness and tightness. These are the mysteries of the voice exposed that I haven't seen any other teacher reveal in such an open and free format. Bravo!

Been here since near the beginning of this channel and mixing this with scale exercises has brought me visible improvement. Chris for best vocal coach lol ✊

This is the best explanation about warm up I have ever seen

Over the moon to have discovered your channel and the gifts of insight you share. Love your unconventional, innovative approach, your clear and powerful message and techniques, and the liberation this generates. Am also enjoying all the positive feedback from other delighted people. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I can’t say enough how much this helped me

Since MCR seem to be back can we look forward to a video on how Gerard Way screamed back on their first album or just his vocal style in general?

Man, thanks universe! i found your videos ! Very clearly and informative lessons, one of the best channels of that kind !!!

OMG!! I love youu I started watching your videos this week and I just love them, I feel so comfortable warming up this way and it feels natural and fun 😊

Chris, Really like warming up like this!! Hallelujah man

ive found my mixed voice, thank sir, your vid helped me a lot.

When he said: "I feel the wind blow", I felt that! :))

I’ve been doing traditional warm ups for 8 months now and I’ve seen An improvement but not as much as I’ve expected. So I’m relieved to hear this, cuz I felt this way but didn’t hear anyone talk about what I felt. Thanks for thinking outside the box!

This guy is the best teacher I have ever seen 👏👏

I’ve followed along to this video every day for a few weeks and I’m singing so much better than I ever have. Thanks Chris!

I'm really really enjoying just sitting with you on this video Chris! I'm not practicing with you but I'm listening and enjoying very much! I love your philosophy and I'm always happy to listen to whatever you want to talk about in your videos!

Best video I’ve ever seen. Thank you

You, sir, are awesome and incredibly helpful. Thanks!

Thank you Chris!

Do you have hidden cameras in my studio? I do this exact same thing! I'm all about the body/emotional feel and compare this to clearing a drain pipe gently.... Scales and stuff to me is more about technical ear/muscle training for agility but if you already know the song and need to warm up, this is great advice! Add core power to this and you will never suffer damage or nodes.

still the best warm up ever. I love that slow access to fry you get. That was something i didnt really understand a year ago. still loving it, still coming back to it!

I like everything about your videos and how you teach. Great job Chris. I have enrolled in your course and it's great.

Absolutely fantastic content, I'm so happy I've found your channel.

Love this warm up. Very helpful.

Very good examples of how to look for natural voice.

This video has helped me the most from your videos! I have been doing very specific exercises to warm up for years which have worked fine for me and made me develop my mix, but just after trying your warmup I felt more relaxed than I usually would with exercises and that C5 in mix is a piece of cake within minutes of doing what you do here!

What a great video! Thanks Chris.

I have started doing this warm up every single day and the result is that certain sounds I have been striving for suddenly came out without me particularly trying. Chris you are a genius and thank you

Creat singer. Unique perspective. Youre awsome.Thanks man! Great material!

I really love your videos ,out of all the vocal coaches on you tube I feel more relaxed learning with you 🌟could you do a video on finding out where you stand in singing (the singing level you on)

Yay I found the warm up video. Thanks!!

Bono improvising at a stadium show starts around the eight-minute mark

Wow my voice feels great after this. Downloading!

I know I sound corny with all of my comments but damn this exercise is so freeing and every time I do it I sing with more control!! Going to come back and post a comment once I put up my RU-vid cover for any feedback 👍

still one of your best videos man

great and insightful warm-up! This makes so much more sense than other warm-up videos that imply "just do it, just make these sounds and hit these notes!"... Thanks! Now all i have to figure is how do i try this without angering the neighbors xD

Thanks fo all your videos !

This literally just changed my singing life forever. Also turned me on to warming up to a drone which is really relaxing and brings out creativity. I used to take your guitar lessons on jamplay - amazing great hard work on all your helpful teaching - thank you!

some of this i cant help but laugh BUT it is incredibly helpful and you learn a lot about your voice from it