B7U3 Under the sea Warming up and Reading Task 1 Warming up.
Warming Up to Belt!
Transcript of Warming Up to Belt!
1. Know your own range and the range of the song or songs you want to sing.
2. Have a keyboard handy.
3. Accept that you are going to be loud.
Pick a song that takes you just over your break, and belt it.
Use good technique! ◦ Sing from the diaphragm ◦ Focus the sound through the mask of the face
Take the song up a step and sing it again ◦ Use the keyboard to ensure you don't revert
back to the original key
Belt songs often allow you to stretch your range a little at a time ◦ Start in a lower, more comfortable range ◦ Build to the climax
Emotional impact ◦ Power in strong emotion ◦ Helps overcome mental barriers that might hold you back
Belt this time, without flipping into your head voice ◦ Five note scale in thirds
Pick out the highest note you’ll have to sing and try to go a whole step beyond it
Descending lines ◦ Helps to keep your throat from tightening ◦ “Ee” syllable
Beginning of “Fortune Favors the Brave” from Aida
“Think” by Aretha Franklin
Last verse and chorus of “Defying Gravity” from Wicked