Singing Lessons: 2 Foundational Exercises

Learn how to sing. Explore how musical relationships work in chords, scales, and intervals, learn how to train your ear to identify common sounds, and more.

Introduction

• Welcome

1. Understanding Scales, Chords, and Intervals

• Singing scales
• Introduction to range and register
• Chords and intervals: Major triads
• Chords and intervals: Minor triads
• Chords and intervals: 7th chords

2. Ear Training

• Ear training: Intervals, part 1
• Ear training: Intervals, part 2
• Ear training: Intervals, part 3
• Ear training: Rhythm and meter, part 1
• Ear training: Rhythm and meter, part 2
• Ear training: Pitch

3. Warming Up Your Voice and Body

• Vocal warm-ups: Mountain pose, neck rolls, toe touch, and roll up
• Vocal warm-ups: Hmm…sweeps and scales
• Vocal warm-ups: Vowel scales, part 1
• Vocal warm-ups: Vowel scales, part 2
• Building a warm-up routine

4. Yoga for Singers

• Yoga for singers: Introduction
• Yoga for singers: Breathing exercise
• Yoga for singers: The forward fold

5. Shaping Your Vocal Sound

• Pitch exercise: Mock me, part 1
• Pitch exercise: Mock me, part 2
• Pitch exercise: Mock me, part 3
• Pitch exercise: Practicing with a tuner
• Phrasing and diction
• Tone