Vocalist’s Tip: Warming Up
Do you like to take a nap in the afternoon before a performance? Most vocalists do, but what they often think is that napping resets the vocal muscles. This leads many a vocalist to avoid warming up during the day because they think it’ll be useless if they sleep.
Fortunately for singers, warming up is more about the connection between your mind and your throat - reminding your mind where certain pitches are. Only a very small fraction of it is warming up the muscles themselves. Essentially, warming up is for reminding your mind where the ‘keys’ on your voice are.
This means you can do you full warm up earlier in the day, and then recap with a ten or fifteen minute warm up after your nap. Now you can save a good hour of time before your show!

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