Vocal Warm-up

1. Tongue and lip warm-ups
Say very fast
ta, ta, ta, ta
da, da, da, da
bah, bah, bah, bah
ma, ma, ma, ma,

2. Tongue twisters
Have your teacher or another student read the line first, then as a class repeat it. Be very certain you are really moving your tongue and your lips! You will be practicing good diction.

• Babbling Baby Bobby
• Ki-ki, the cuckoo, cuts capers
• Don didn’t do the difficult dangerous deeds
• Few folks find the fine flavor
• Jim, Jill, Jane and Johnny jammed jollily
• Little Lillian lets lazy lizards lie along the lily pads
• Nine nice nieces never noticed nine nice nieces noticing nine nice nieces
• Popular people, people popular places
• Suzy Sampson is surrounded by her sousaphone
• Sheila shall surely show her shining seashore shells
• Little Teddy Tucker toots his tooter toute suite
• Thick thistles throbbed in Thelma Thimble’s thumb