QUICK AND EASY VOCAL WARM-UPS

Find a quiet spot and briefly close your eyes,

 take a few cleansing breaths and relax.
When you feel completely relaxed, begin slowly...

* stretch and yawn; hold the ending "ah" sound; relax your throat and jaws

* take a deep breath (from the diaphragm) and on the exhale say and extended hhhhhmmm.
Repeat X 10 allowing the lungs to release all of the air. Collapse your abdomen as you exhale.

* * Do a hum-slide up and down your vocal range with "hhhhhmmmmmmmm."

* * feel different parts of mouth and nasal area or "Mask/Mid-Range" vibrate with the different sounds:

MMMMMMMMM... ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...EEEEEEEEEEEEE... NNNNNNNNNNNNN...
VVVVVVVVVV... Mum Mum Mum Mum Mum Mum Mum

* open your mouth , eyes, and face as wide as you can on the last syllable of:
Mumula Mumula Mumula Mumula Mumula Mumula Mumula Mumula

SILLY PHRASES
* each phrase features different difficult consonant combinations.
Start slow, over-articulating and then increase speed
Red letter, yellow letter~
Good blood, bad blood~
Eleven benevolent elephants~
Teaching ghosts to groove~
The big, black-backed bumblebee~
A critical cricket critic~
Selfish shellfish~
Really rural~
Unique New York~
The tip of the tongue, the lips, the teeth~
To titillate your taste buds, we've got these tasty tidbits~

COGNATES
* Feel a pulse in your diaphragm with the following sounds
unvoiced: PUH PUH PUH PUH PUH PUH PUH PUH
VOICED: BUH BUH BUH BUH BUH BUH BUH BUH
unvoiced: TUH TUH TUH TUH TUH TUH TUH TUH
VOICED: DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH
unvoiced: KUH KUH KUH KUH KUH KUH KUH KUH
VOICED: GUH GUH GUH GUH GUH GUH GUH GUH

TONGUE TWISTER!* This long tongue twister contains many buzz sounds and difficult
consonant combinations. It is possible to say all in one breath if you
use diaphragmatic breathing and carefully control the volume of air
expelled. Articulate every sound!

What a to-do to die today at a minute or two to two,
a thing distinctly hard to say but harder still to do.
for they'll beat a tattoo at a quarter to two:
a rat-ta tat-tat ta tat-tat ta to-to.
and the dragon will come when he hears the drum
at a minute or two till two today, at a minute or two till two...GREAT JOB! YOU FINISHED!!!