Warm Up Arrangements (Choir)

Warming up, with a plan. Warm Up Arrangements is a collection of exercises for choir directors — made for the tablet on your music stand, not for the desk at home. 134 exercises from choral practice, sorted into the three phases of a warm-up: • Body and Mind — relaxation, focus, energy • Voice — easing in, going low, going high • The Gym — short and long workouts Every exercise comes with instructions, a "Why? Here's why!" on the thinking behind it, usually a graphic, and for many of them an audio example. YOUR WARM-UP IN THREE STEPS Choose — In the exercise pool you put together what suits today. Every rehearsal starts differently: sometimes the choir is tired, sometimes restless, sometimes a concert is coming up. Arrange — In your arrangement you set the order, show graphics and texts as reminders, and pull out a keyboard when you need to give starting notes. In rehearsal you simply…