Daily Singing Warm Up - Bass Baritone

[@jj53368]

Quick tip for anybody new to this video: at 7:15, you should start one octave lower than what he is singing. Sometimes I start at the same octave he is vocalizing and realize that I’m supposed to sing the note he’s playing on the piano, not what he is singing. 👋 Take care!

[@jj53368]

Same for: 12:45

[@JaBBaRiStaN]

oh thanks for sharing this. i were start thinking if im not bass baritone x

[@mantissings]

Thanks Jeff! this was actually very challenging- I have a cold and my lowest and highest range is compromised, as well as my breath capacity.

[@JeffRolka]

Feel better! Thanks for singing along!

[@marslpv2333]

Ok, this is easily the best vocal training Chanel I've seen on KZbin. . And I've sifted through many.

[@richardalward]

This and other videos have brought me back into singing from all the way back from high school

[@justJulian..]

Finally some exercises that I’m actually comfortable singing. Thx for these vids man they’re really helping out a lot👍🏻

[@JeffRolka]

Excellent! Enjoy! Thank you for watching! Jeff

[@felix_dmlrd289]

Do a vocal warmup for this range plz : C2 - E4 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@MrSiweusz]

This channel is changing/forming my whole approach and understanding of how to produce sound. I am a living room passionate bass player and I've decided to learn to sing couple of months ago. I've discovered I'm a baritone (my body and mind like keeping things low I guess) and couldn't really take anything out from "male singing exercises" videos I was trying to work with. I had no understanding of what am I supposed to do with my body in order to produce the desired notes, but something was telling me that there's a hidden potential somewhere down there on the scale and I already knew that most of the songs in popular music are not for me to be sang. When I stumbled upon Jeff's videos I thought that this is tickling me where I like it. Now, after doing these warm ups, I feel that the development and comprehension are finally starting to dawn upon me and that there's a hope for me to sing comfortably sometime in the future. Thank you for what you deliver with your channel Jeff!

[@JeffRolka]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching and enjoy! Jeff

[@thomasbusk561]

Thanks for the warm-ups. I've been enjoying working with you and just want to send some love and encouragement. I'm a professional singer that is benefiting from your work to get my voice back in the game.

[@chriswhiteauditions]

Thank you so much for sharing your expertise in these videos, Jeff! I used them over the past two holiday seasons to warm up for my performances at Walt Disney World. I found that doing this video and most of the tenor daily warm up video got my voice in perfect shape for each night of shows.

[@JeffRolka]

Fantastic! Thank you for watching and singing along! Enjoy! Jeff

[@carlosreyesmusica]

Thanks to Jeff I'm finally getting into a warm up routine I can identify with because of the range and the method... the triple A method is awesome!

[@mantissings]

Thank yiu

[@bonifass29011962]

Maestro, I am happy to have found your great lessons!

[@kirkhustle7596]

These ear training exercises are fantastic by the way! I warm up with this video every day and it helps me a lot with my ear training as well. Youre the only channel I've found so far with ear training-sing-along-to-chords exercises. Thanks again for this, youre great!

[@JeffRolka]

Thank you so much! I do what I can! Enjoy the channel!!! Best, Jeff

[@johnsanders3290]

Thank You Jeff- What a lovely offering, I really appreciate having a 20+ minute warm-up- Im drinking it in!!!

[@JeffRolka]

Brilliant! Enjoy! Doing another for this coming weekend! Best, Jeff

[@saturnvelvetclub]

Jeff, I cannot thank you enough! This is wonderful

[@jj53368]

Wow. Stunning workout. My new favorite of yours. Never knew my voice could go that deep... I felt the powerful vibrations and I think my neighbors may have too. I love the ear-training aspect-do you have more videos that dive deeper into that? Also, I love when your warmups take us into darker tonalities-that fourths exercise was so inspiring and ethereal.

[@JeffRolka]

Right on! Thank you so much! I have a new ear training video coming out soon, but in the meantime: kzbin.info/aero/PL2mQP7sE6PHgehL_Vorbr-_V42GkrYhv3 Thank you! Jeff

[@komangkrisna5963]

need more videos!! love from BALI

[@thudson9589]

This is a fantastic warm-up, and made me realise this is my range rather than baritone. Apart from the last two or three runs of the very last exercise where things suddenly got dicey when it took me mercilessly over my 'break'! Thank so much for posting these videos, Jeff.

[@jahnnyquest]

Thanks Jeff -I'm beginning to incorporate morning - gentle with full range great help

[@JeffRolka]

That sounds really nice. Great work! Keep it up! Best, Jeff

[@Nippelzieher]

to the point and super effective. your videos are the best!

[@d3ad.4gain]

Do it on a daily “Bass” is

[@ghettosupahstar3024]

lmaoo my first thought

Without any further ado at 0:46 😉 Thanks Jeff! 🐯

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[@emyru]

This is amazing! Just what I needed :) I had been using the full range for baritone video so far --- and this one is way more challenging. I hope I can do these exercises properly soon. Cause it looks like my singing would benefit from it :o

[@JeffRolka]

Awesome! Thank you for watching! I'm glad you're finding it a challenging! Enjoy the video and channel and I wish you all the best with your voice! Jeff

[@jjstenzoski]

Thanks much, Jeff.

[@EthanS1481]

That was beautiful and very helpful! thanks!

[@carwashslayer4235]

10:35 is my favorite one especially with the chords

[@J_paints]

And THIS is what I need. Im trying to learn to breathe correctly for singing. That last part goes too fast for me so I'm using the lip trill. I'm following this video in my own range and adding "ng" before the vowels sometimes, and my hands over my head or playing with my stretchy bands for strength. I sometimes put my lightest stretchy band around my lower rib cage while I sing with the video to feel if I'm using my abdomin to breathe and keeping my ribs out and my sternum up. Thanks for such helpful, sustaining lessons.

[@JeffRolka]

Brava!!!! Your practice sounds well thought out! Great work! Keep me up to date on your singing! Jeff

[@J_paints]

@@JeffRolka You are too kind. Maybe some day I can pay for the lessons. I noticed that singers I see on line stand still and seem so composed and relaxed. Their sternum are high, their backs are straight and their hands hang down easy at their sides. Part of my mortification seeing videos of myself singing is that I am all over the place. I look like a person with a palsy or tardif discknesia. I move, I twitch, my hands don't know where to be or what to do, my fingers curl. To me it is just awful. So my current goal is to be able to hold still when I'm singing. The breathing exercises you made have helped hugely with this so far, since I came across them. If I can ever sing better I will forward you before and after videos. Maybe by next year. God bless you. Thanks. J

[@KCOMSUPPORT]

Rock on Devil dog..... Its a daily drill... Super thanks....

[@iancoulterbuford]

Do you mind making a warm up for Bari-tenors please.

[@ВладимирДанилов-ь8ч]

Спасибо! Занимаюсь с Вами каждый день.

[@JeffRolka]

Wonderful! Thanks for watching and enjoy the channel! Jeff

[@link6576]

I see so many comments on someone's range. If I was to measure my low range, would I stop at my lowest chest note or just keep going down until I can't physically make the note? If it's the first option then I can go down to about a G1 or A1 in chest, but if it's the other, then my fry can go down to A0, but after that it just becomes toneless vocal flaps

[@dmytrotsvyntarnyi799]

You stop on your lowest usable (relatively loud) full chest note

[@danieldavidson5220]

Great video. Thank you

[@jahimendes]

Where my basses at ?!

[@kipponi]

I think this is average basses not for the extreme low bass voices. I am baritone and just I can make those low notes. My lowest in good day is D2. And extra extra air C2 but it is low volume.

[@evanchrisman7731]

Here

[@mackhomie6]

where da _English basics: prepositions_ book at?

[@santiagoschulzschulzkumar7457]

in my bass- ment .... Badum tch!

[@Wallhackingplusesp]

B1 right here 😂

[@losgalanes]

Hi Jeff thanks for your exercises, I read somewhere about the Bel Canto Singing. Is it something you teach ? Thanks Jose

[@JeffRolka]

My warm ups are based on Bel Canto teaching - though strictly speaking, I make some adjustments here and there. The basis however, is the same. Enjoy! Jeff

[@losgalanes]

Thank you.

[@thudson9589]

I think I might (might) have been getting the hang of switching between chest and mixed voice by the second-from-last exercise, so once again thank you! Would it be helpful/safe for my voice on the last exercise to do it very slowly? Day Two of working through this video, on that last one I sound like a choirboy who's voice is breaking, nay, collapsing.

[@JeffRolka]

Great to hear! In regards to the speed - maybe. It is often better to go quickly in the beginning in order to avoid accumulating vocal fold tension inadvertently. If your appoggio practice is really good, however, then moving a little more slowly makes for a bit more time to make adjustments as you change muscle groups. I hope that helps! Jeff

[@williamenright4726]

How do I subscribe to Rolka

[@jaakkot9661]

Hello Jeff. I'm a huge fan of yours and been doing your exercises for few months and improved my singing a lot, thanks to you! I've been struggling with keeping a note stable while singing especially in lower register. It kinda helps when I'm singing higher notes with higher compression. Do you think it's a breathing related problem? I've been doing breathing exercises quite a lot for past month but I'm not sure if there's any progression in that area. My range is around D2-E4.

[@kirkhustle7596]

Thank you, Jeff!

[@ВладимирДанилов-ь8ч]

Спасибо!

[@JeffRolka]

You're welcome!!!! Jeff

[@sebastiankrupa_]

Great, thank you!

[@JeffRolka]

Glad it was helpful!

[@samuelwiseman6217]

Is this exercise supposed to done with falsetto?? This is the first exercise I had trouble with on both ends of my range.

[@JeffRolka]

The idea is honor the changes of register as you move through them. Keep in mind-all the fachs are general. So this exercise, for bass-baritone, would cover all the tessitura for bass vocalists and as high as baritone vocalists. If it's ever on the ridiculous side for you personally, just take a moment to pause, let the keys carry on, and get back in when it's at a more reasonable range. Best, Jeff

[@colcoction]

Thank you so much!

[@degosiejani2774]

Thank you! 💚🤟🏽

[@andybasso1345]

Am I a bass singer if my range from B1-C3

[@KhanhNguyen-iq1lh]

Yeah you are

[@simonwesterlund02]

U could be a bass or a bass-baritone depending on ur timbre

[@kodiuchida5618]

Hi Jeff, thank you for the exercises! I liked them all and I think they will really help me to warm up without harming my vocal cords, but I couldn't understand the division of each vowel in the last exercise, so I wasn't confident about it and ended up giving up. I don't know what level of musician you are expecting to watch your videos, but would you consider demonstrating slowly what vowels you are using and the transition between them in future videos? It seems difference in language (I'm a Portuguese speaker) makes us pronounce vowels differently...

[@mannywilde]

Hi Jeff, I had a question about using more or less chest voice- depending on your natural voice. My voice leans more towards a medium to low baritone. So, would it be better for me to be lighter on my notes since my voice is naturally thick? Would it also be better for a tenor or high baritone to use more chest voice so that their voice sounds stronger/fuller? Thank you for the videos. This would definitely be my favorite warm up video so far.

[@JeffRolka]

Very interesting question - it is all about how the voice is balanced. The heaviness that we often experience is more about how much vocal fold engagement we're using. Depending on the instrument, that weight can sometimes be the natural colorations of the aural cavity (read: the person's voice). Too frequently, though, we're pushing down and trying to sound full, and what we're doing is actually engaging more muscle engagement than is entirely ideal for smooth registration event practice. To say that baritones are one way and tenors are another would be too great a generalization in my opinion. It comes down to the individual, their instrument, and how they intend to use it. All the best, Jeff

[@walterkilos]

hi

[@Cartoonlover4ever88]

What group does I belong to, when my range is: F2 (lowest) to C5 (highest note)? Note: I am able to sing both F2 and C5, comfortably. Falsetto: F5

[@poodah2013]

Jimmi Andersen Baritone

[@boundary2580]

Baritone or a tenor with a good low range, it all depends on how you sound when singing them. I personally would put you at a tenor based off your range alone, cause most of them can scrape an F2 pretty easily. It’s just not as rich as a baritone or bass would sound.

[@zacharywilson4233]

Thank you!

[@JeffRolka]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching! Jeff

[@19MadMike95]

I usually the baritone videos and i was halfway through this like damn this is harder than usual lol

[@JeffRolka]

Exercising those low pipes eh!! Jeff

[@worldofsonny]

thank you so much for this warm up video! My breaking point is an E (Middle C). I am a beginner in music theory so not really good right now. My teacher told me that is where most baritones break. How do increase my range from there?

[@JeffRolka]

Thank you for watching and thanks for writing in! Most male vocalists will have their break in that vicinity. Keep in mind, the difference between some varieties of baritone and tenor fachs is a half step right there at e4. Focus on airflow and alignment of your vowels below the secondo passaggio ( the 'break') then as that starts to come into focus have a look at my videos that details singing over the break or secondo passaggio as I prefer to refer to it as. You can always swing by a live event to ask me a question, they're on Saturdays at 10am Pacific Time. Best! Jeff

[@ballerzay]

If my range for a male is B1-B4 what should i warm up, bass baritone or tenor?

[@JeffRolka]

Kind of depends on the repertoire. Use the warm ups that have you singing in the range of the pieces that you are doing. Best! Jeff

[@davidduncan1362]

I tried this exercise and it mercilessly took me to very low notes. These notes are too low for me, unless if I wanted to show off my ability to sing bass notes, which I am very capable of singing, but I just cannot make these super low notes sound big on my voice. I have counted the number of riffs that Jeff Rolka has these bass-baritone guys singing and the seventh-lowest and higher riffs are the ones that sound very big on my higher voice, more like a tenor who has managed to sing all of the bass-baritone notes, rather than a bass-baritone, himself. If you truely are a bass-baritone, you should be able to deliver more richness on those super low notes than a tenor ever will, even if he has managed to sing all of your notes. When singing "Alone" by Heart, I go an octave down from Ann Wilson, not to show-off an E2, but to showcase how big my voice sounds around C4 with the same parts of the song that showcases how big Ann's voice sounds around C5. In a tenor-tenor-bass-bass arrangement, I am able to sing both tenor and both bass parts, but that second tenor part is where my voice truly shines and I would not sound very good, singing second bass. Do you have any similar exercises for guys that sing second tenor, instead of second bass?

[@JeffRolka]

Thanks for watching! Keep in mind - this is a bass baritone video, so it's going to cover ranges for voices that may be lower than your own. Just take a pause if it gets too low. Alternately, you could do the tenor videos and stop if it gets too high. I've also begun doing baritenor videos, the high end of which would cover second tenors quite adequately.

[@KhanhNguyen-iq1lh]

My lowest note is C2, I can stretch my mixed range up to A4, and the switch to falsetto up to A5. Am I a baritone?

[@KhanhNguyen-iq1lh]

Jack Kelly Jack Kelly my voice is pretty similar to yours. I think i'm baritone (idk lyric or bass baritone cause I havent been through training and i dont have enogh knowlegde about it) my supported range is F2 - E5 - B4/C5. My mixed voice sounds really bright but then I can switch and sing real dark too. If I sing out of my supported range, I'm able to mix G5 lol but idk if it counts lol.

[@chadthomson4596]

thanks boss man

[@JeffRolka]

You're welcome! Thanks for subscribing and being a part of the channel!

[@BrianFrancoeur]

Thanks, Jeff, for providing another great warm-up exercise! Question: Why am I able to sing throughout my full range on some days, but not others? Today, I am having trouble with intonation even well within my range. My voice is 'jumping' out of tune.

[@JeffRolka]

You're welcome! Consistency comes with practicing, and there can be a lag between being successful with a skill and having it be part of your habitual singing technique. So, specifically with this video, if your technique over the secondo passaggio is still forming, it would be expected that some days it would be better than others. This can sometimes be fixed, however, by taking a few moments with an easier video reminding yourself of what the registration event feels like. In terms of 'jumping out of tune' it's hard to say what could be happening without hearing you. Since you've used the word 'jumping' my impression is that the poor intonation is by a fairly wide margin, and as such, is more like singing the wrong note. That could be related to airflow, vowel alignment, adduction, or your aural concept for where the note is supposed to be. Narrowing down the reason for the intonation problems then informs what to practice to fix it. If possible, consider coming to my live event, Saturdays, here on KZbin at 10am PT. You can ask your question and I'll be able to do some examples to narrow down what's happening. I can then advise you more specifically. I hope that helps! Jeff

[@BrianFrancoeur]

Hi, Jeff -- Thank you for the prompt response. Do you have any videos that will help me troubleshoot why my voice is doing this? If not, I'll try to join your live session this coming Saturday. Thanks!

[@JeffRolka]

Hello! Probably best for us to talk about this during the live event tomorrow. Hopefully you can make it! I have a few thoughts and we'll get you moving in the right direction. Best, Jeff

[@jackerickson2184]

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[@0verw0rked.Art0]

If i keep doing these exercises every day will my voice get deeper by habit? Maybe a little bit, but that's what im goin for >:)

[@JeffRolka]

The lower boundary is more fixed than the upper, but yes, it's possible that with practice and attention to technique you'll get some additional pitches. If you're just getting started, think light and bright. If you try to push your larynx down to get the low notes, it has same limiting effects as trying to lift your larynx to sing high notes. It ends up constricting the flow of air and limiting your range. Best, Jeff

[@vaidarocyte4195]

woho thank you Jeff so much you are the best

[@JeffRolka]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching! Jeff

[@mortezaemamgholi2107]

Thank you for these Dear jeff

[@primaprimotv]

Im a woman with lower voice inclination...funny being called a gentlemen, though i guess its not a bad thing...

[@walterkilos]

Me falsete

[@tapoutluke]

That last one was waaaay too hard for me 😭

[@walterkilos]

🥰 🥰

[@catedoge3206]

Where my bass baritone at?

[@walterkilos]

Uffff Hard tall

[@thebullybuffalo]

Hi Jeff, I have a problem with my throat feeling constricted when singing. I feel like I can't open up my "airway" and my higher notes sound muffled like I'm wheezing. I've tried some breathing exercises with moderate success. If I workout or go for a run I notice it helps. Any suggestions?

[@JeffRolka]

Hard to say what you could be doing without hearing you. My upper register technique is laid out in these videos though: kzbin.info/aero/PL2mQP7sE6PHjHyIC-q4iZYjTUYnu5Nd9o Jeff