The Sing Thing 2: Exercises
A series of more challenging exercises, for singers who already know their voices well.
Designed to improve vocal flexibility and accuracy, and aural understanding.

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Click to hear Exercise 1

Up A Bit, Down A Bit Up the Major Scale to the fifth, back to the first, then repeat the pattern starting on the second. Helps develop agility and accuracy with the intervals of this most common of scales.
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Click to hear Exercise 2 		Halfway Up Slowly Major Scale again, this time leaping increasing intervals. 1, 2, 1, 3 etc. Up to five and back down again, then continue the pattern a tone higher.
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Click to hear Exercise 3 		Halfway Up Quickly Good for agility but make sure you don't do it 'on the throat'. Quite long and fast... quite a challenge!
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Click to hear Exercise 4 		Going Down Slowly Dropping down the Major Scale, trying not to hold the 'tension' of the first and highest note in the lower notes. Free and easy - we hope.
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Click to hear Exercise 5 		All The Way Up Staying with the Major Scale and similar to exercise 2 but this time going all the way up to the octave. Be sure to maintain support for the intervals up near the octave.
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Click to hear Exercise 6 		Jumping & Sliding An octave leap with a slur back down. Looking for accuracy and comfort on the leap and smoothness and freedom from constriction on the slur down.
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Click to hear Exercise 7 		Little By Little Introducing the Chromatic Scale. This one is quite fast and fine. Make sure that your semitones are semitones. Keep the air flowing, don't control in the throat.
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Click to hear Exercise 8 		Happy Sad Blues Arpeggios on Major and Minor triads being careful to make that semitone distinction. This one in harder than it at first appears.
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Click to hear Exercise 9 		Sad Happy Blues The reverse of exercise 8. This one starting with a Minor triad.
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Click to hear Exercise 10 		Tritone Blues Practise that most awkward of intervals, the tritone or flattened fifth.
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Click to hear Exercise 11 		Whole Tone Blues Utilising the Whole Tone Scale. This one uses very long phrases so you'll need to make sure your breathing is in shape.
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Click to hear Exercise 12 		Diminished Blues The Diminished Scale that alternates semitone and tone intervals - in this case starting with a semitone. You'll need to get your ear used to it and again, long phrases so breath properly!