25 Warm- Up

for Pop and Jazz Choirs. What choral conductor or soloist has not looked around for new ideas for warming up the voice? Here are over 39 creative exercises which do more than just warm up the voice: they help to relax the body, train the ear and develop an awareness of dynamics and rhythm. Two top authors, Deke Sharon and J.D. Frizzell, have provided a wide array of warm ups specifically designed for pop and jazz choirs but these warm ups will work well for contemporary a cappella groups of all sizes and styles. Every vocal ensemble has its strengths and weaknesses which vary from year to year. The warmups within can to help polish your weak spots and hone your strengths. Regardless of your group_x001A_s strengths, this book is can help you address the full range of skills required for great musicmaking. Topics include: Rhythm, Syllables, Tone, Intervals, Dynamics, Intonation, Blend, Balance, Pitch, Improvisation, Solo Techniques, and Vocal Percussion.

A Winter Musical for Young Singers-Melton is everyone's friend. In fact he's so full of love and cheer that the tiniest thing sets his heart aglow and his body a-meltin'. One chorus of “Oh Christmas Tree” and he shrinks an inch! Not a good situationif you are a snowman! With a heart that warm he'll soon be nothing but slush! 20 minutes long with five original songs rhyming dialog and a castload of your favorite winter characters make up this charming musical for primarygrades that reinforces the 'heart-warming' message of the season: “it's about love!” Complete piano/vocal arrangements choreography staging and costume ideas are all included in the Teacher Edition. The ReproduciblePak offers vocal lines lyric sheets and dialog for your star performers. The available CD makes a professional-level performance a real possibility for any elementary students. Ideal for a small classroom or a cast of thousands “Melton the Warm-Hearted Snowman” will warm the hearts of performers and audiences alike! Songs include: What a Perfect Winter Day Melton the Warm-Hearted Snowman Tough Love! Cool Carols It's About Love.

Complete Warm-Up for Classical Guitar contains short and concise exercises for use in a warm-up before practice or performance and for general technical advancement. The book is divided into foursections: I Arpeggios II Scales III Tremolo and IV Slurs. Each section contains a description of the exercises and general instructions on how to play them. The exercises are intended for guitarists who are looking for a simplewarm-up that does not require learning many complicated Etudes exercises or routines. In this book only one Etude is used for a variety of arpeggio and tremolo patterns. The scale warm-ups are based on a two-octave one-position scale that is shifted up and down the fretboard and a simple one-position chromatic scale. The pull-off and hammer-on slurs are combined into one exercise to save time. This same routine when practised with themetronome gradually increasing the tempo can also double for technical work. With the exception of one chromatic scale exercise the rest are on closed strings. Besides being able to move the scale up and down the fretboard thefirst finger can be barred. This will increase the left hand difficulty and improve the left hand position and strength.There is close to an hour's worth of material if all the exercises are played with all of theirvariations at different tempos. Not everything needs to be played everyday so the warm-up session can be as long as desired or as short as time allows.

Nancy Litten\'s Choral and Vocal Warm-Ups for Pianists provides the perfect accompaniment for a whole range of warm-ups she herself uses regularly with choirs. This invaluable guide leads the choral director, step by step, through the various stages of the warm-up and provides a suitable keyboard accompaniment. Litten also offers valuable advice about what and how to practice common harmonic progressions, allowing the pianist to provide precisely the accompaniment the director needs to get the choir warmed-up and ready to sing. / Choral Music, Methods

The benefits of warming up sufficiently before practicing have been the subject of various studies in keyboard journals and scientific publications on performance health and medicine. One of the easiest and safest ways to warm up remains to simply perform the activity for a short time period at a lower rate and intensity. Warm-ups included here are relatively short symmetrical in progressive difficulty and based on the physiology of the hand and its proper relation to the keys. A wonderful companion for every player!

Warming up your choir has never been this much fun! These 18 educational exercises are written in a variety of styles based on American popular music including Swing Rock Latin and Cajun. Piano accompaniments are included but a CD (HL08201244) is also available for a great-sounding and stylistic accompaniment! These warm-ups can be used to improve intonation balance and blend enunciation and vowel unification and to extend vocal ranges. Can also be used creatively as the basis for group composition and movement exercises. With these fresh starts you're limited only by your imagination!