https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PYLfrViW-Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6_UGiV3KeI

During this lesson, we learned how to properly warm up our voices. This is particularly important as educators, as our voice is vital to teaching lessons throughout the day, and a proper vocal warm up before a music lesson allows us to ensure our main mode of communication is still in tact.

Vocal warm ups are also important for children because it can teach them things about their body that they may not have previously known (e.g. how high/low they can pitch their voices, how well they can use the air in their lungs). It also teaches them to look after their bodies, tying in to Health and Wellbeing.

As with the ukulele lessons, there are many online instructive videos to give different breathing and vocal techniques to achieve different results. There is also information on the website Charanga, including interactive lesson plans that can be altered to fit the teacher’s goal.

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