The exercises you teach in your videos give me tremendous vocal control, and it’s addicting

@JeffRolka

9 ай бұрын

Excellent! That's the idea - good vocal health and control. The addicting thing, well, who wouldn't get addicted to singing well!??!

"thank you for checking out my warmup" Me: umm actually thank you for posting this so I can work on things at home maybe??

@JeffRolka

9 ай бұрын

Nice! Thanks for that!

One of the best warmups I have ever done as a concerto tenor. Can’t wait for the algorithm to give you the viewership you deserve

@JeffRolka

11 сағат бұрын

Thank you for that. I would love to have the algorithm smile upon me!

You Need more subscribers. No BS in your videos, lots of really great warmups and i'm slowly picking up your techniques from listening to you, they have really helped me work past some bad habits. Thanks for all of the great content!

@JeffRolka

Ай бұрын

Thanks for that! I really appreciate it! True, it'd be cool to have more subscribers - slowly but surely!

I keep practising your warm up exercise and I really benefit from it , a lot !

Thanks Jeff for making the 🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹 visible

Loving this warm up Jeff! Thank you!

Congratulations from Brazil 👏👏👏

Thanks Jeff this is great!

Wahoooo 🎉 Thank you!

Best warmup video on KZread 🔥

Thanks a lot man, great material.

Thank you! :) really helpful!

I was missing one of those, thank you!

I feel so much better right now than I ever have, honestly. It’s amazing feeling in control with these warm ups before going and singing

These videos are incredible 👏🏾

Without any further ado at 0:48 😉 Thanks Jeff! 🐯

3 ай бұрын

11/03/2024 (grit)

This YT is pure gold!!!

Another ingenious demonstration/ tutorial

Thank you Jeff! Your videos are helping me a great deal!

I liked this one very much!

Nice work Jeff.

Ah, a new version of the tenor warm-up! Glad I discovered it, perfect for my range.

Thanks for this!! Your warmups are very helpful!

@JeffRolka

8 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

Very helpful

Thank you for these videos, it's been a key to finding my voice

I love and use all of your warmups any time I need a warmup, be it for general daily health or preparing for a rehearsal or a show. Love this new video. Always grateful and will always support your work!

This is my favorite one. I play 160 or so shows a year, usually 3 hours solo acoustic. I do this before every show at this time. I’m 49 and try to take more time to warm up now. This does the trick and gives more control in my first set. Love this, Jeff!

@JeffRolka

7 ай бұрын

Right on! So glad that this is serving you well! Thanks for watching!

Awesome!

Thanks Jeff excellent channel.

@JeffRolka

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much! I appreciate the support!

Hi Jeff. I've been doing your exercises for two weeks now and I can already see the results. Thank you very much. 😊I got a contest by the end of the month, so wish me luck.

@JeffRolka

9 ай бұрын

Awesome! Break a leg!!!! Thanks for watching and singing along!

Many thanks. Useful warm up before choir rehearsals. 🇬🇧

Thank you sir, I’ve been watching your old videos as well. Much love.

@JeffRolka

9 ай бұрын

Big love right back at you!

Love it ❤

I have been following your years!!! It’s has helped with breathing . Please keep videos coming.

@JeffRolka

8 ай бұрын

Will do!!!

Just wanted to say thank you for all the exercises. I have been using many of your warmups for the past nine months on the regular, and they have definitely helped develop some aspects of my singing voice - particularly in the transitions between registers. My old vocal tutors would work on various similar exercises together with me, but as I am now studying abroad at the moment, these videos have served as an excellent substitute for the time being

@JeffRolka

8 ай бұрын

Great to hear! Thank you!

Been using your warmups professionally pre show/rehearsal and even teaching now since one of my first contracts! Thank you for always putting out new content and continuing to challenge my range/break/passagio etc. even after years I can feel steady changes and adjustments into what’s working and getting easier over time! 🙌🏻

@JeffRolka

7 ай бұрын

My pleasure! Glad to hear that the videos have served you so well! May they continue to do so! Thanks for subscribing!

Thank you Jeff! I’ve followed your vocal warmups for a while now. I do them while driving to mentally prepare myself for being sociable at school. It really helps with my confidence. 🙌🏼

@JeffRolka

8 ай бұрын

Right on! Be careful while driving! Ten and two and all that! Thanks for listening and singing along! I hope the videos help a bit for being sociable!

I loved this warm up Jeff! Especially the tonal onsets as for the first time my voice didn’t crack when going over the secondo passaggio:)) Will definitely keep using this one

@JeffRolka

9 ай бұрын

Wonderful!

An update on the vocal warmup that have used for years now before shows? Yes, thanks. I appreciate your videos, Jeff. 😁

@JeffRolka

9 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thanks for watching and I hope that you enjoy this slightly modified update!

I always practice with all your tenor videos, but I got to say I really enjoy this one. Well done!

@JeffRolka

9 ай бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

@pmminter1

8 ай бұрын

No problem man! Looking forward to more.

excellent

Thanks

@JeffRolka

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for the Super Thanks! You're very welcome!

Thanks! I’ve been using your KZread content for daily warmup before going on to my own vocal coach’s homework assignments.

@JeffRolka

6 ай бұрын

That’s awesome! Thank you for your support! I appreciate it!

jeff rolka is life

Loves it

Jeff, Thanks so much for providing these tools. I was a little skeptical at first about the 'no talking' approach. How will I know what to do...or not do?? But I found that if I approach the exercises as you demonstrate them, I get results over time...a more free and less effortful sound! I've struggled for years with manipulating my sound to try to get through my range and now I'm discovering I can make sound more simply. Much appreciated!

@JeffRolka

9 күн бұрын

Excellent! Glad that the videos are proving useful! Feel free to drop in on a live event if you want the theory behind the practices that are built into the 'warm ups'. They're really technical exercises, but you can certainly warm up with them too!

Hi Jeff . You're looking great. You look tan .Have you been sun tanning. You have made me a great singer Jeff . I was able to hang through this whole warm - up . I'm doing a lot of street performances . It sure is different singing thru a microphone. I do your training acapello. I can really hear my real voice through that sm58 microphone. Between your training and the street training I think I'm ready. I know its a long shot but I hope we can meet some day .

Congratulation from French 🙏👏👍

@JeffRolka

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! 😃

20:45❤ Favorite part! Will you be able put together a warm-up/workout with these type of darker tones. It’s really fun and helpful! THANKS JEFF!

@JeffRolka

8 ай бұрын

Sure!

Thank you Jeff for another great video. In your previous full range video from a year ago you went all the way up to C5, is there a reason you kept this one up to A4. Just curious, loving your channel and all the great advice.

@JeffRolka

9 ай бұрын

I usually only do c5 in tenor videos that are extended range. This video is focusing primarily on the secondo passaggio.

YOU DA MAN MAHALO❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

@JeffRolka

24 күн бұрын

Mahalo!!!

I've been practicing this daily for 4 months . I've definitely noticed my improvement and it's amazing. I'm not sure where to go on from here . Anything else I should practice daily?

@JeffRolka

3 ай бұрын

Maybe try some of the other warm ups!

Really good warmup. Is there a reason why you change vowels at the point you reverse direction in the scale or is it just tradition? Could one change vowels on any note without losing anything?

@JeffRolka

9 ай бұрын

Great question - as always! I'll elaborate in QfC 51

Great Work Jeff! The exercises are awesome. Are you doing solfeggio exercises?

@JeffRolka

8 ай бұрын

Wonderful! I need to post more solfège practices. Unless you're asking me if I do them, which I do, daily!

Put in the vowel sounds on screan, take out the error you made 75% in, and this'll be an excellent video I'll return to every day.

@JeffRolka

8 ай бұрын

If you mean when I sing /i/ /e/ /o/ but I said /i/ /e/ /u/ in the description, I correct myself in the video, and an edit would probably be more intrusive. As for putting vowels on screen, I think about that from time to time, and will give it some consideration. That being said, there is rarely more than three vowels to an exercise, and music is, after all, an aural practice. Listening, and subsequently processing that information, is just as important as producing it.

@SteverzesSon

8 ай бұрын

@JeffRolka I don't even care anymore because this exercise has done well for me. XD Also, there's only 3, but I often forget what the thing in my mouth is while I'm chewing! Don't underestimate how dumb I am! 🤪 This exercise is near perfect, in my opinion, but could be perfect. Anyway, mad respect, man! 😁

Hi Jeff, hope all well. Would you recommend to this warm up once in the morning and once in the evening? Or just once per day?

5:04 10:38

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Thanks Jeff for this super useful exercise, i have practiced tenor exercise for about a month and i have 2 questions for you: - First, after i exercised in Tenor range is it okay to have a little sore that goes away in less than an hour ? - Second, i have also tried the Baritone range but it feels a little low for me, i can't hit any note that's below A2 without struggle and i can do most of the Baritone exercise in chest voice. So should i exercise in Tenor or Baritone?

@JeffRolka

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and thanks for subscribing! You shouldn't be sore after the exercises. There's an imbalance that you're making up for with vocal fold tension, and that isn't sustainable long term, but worse than that, it will prevent you from full realizing your vocal skills. Stick to a more comfortable range and assess your vowel alignment and appoggio practice. Work outwards in range from there!

Hi Jeff I am still doing your videos and enjoying it but could you please show some vocal slides and sirens as you can make them simple I get confused by others Thanks

@JeffRolka

9 ай бұрын

Sure, I'll do a few of those!

@jamiepoems

9 ай бұрын

@@JeffRolka Thanks

Hi there! This is AMAZING content for singing but the video is just a little too quiet :( really gotta boost my speakers which then surprises me if i forget and turn on another video.

@JeffRolka

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for that! I think I may have accidentally turned off something in my signal chain. I'm going to check it and make sure to fix it moving forward! Thank you!

Thank you very much for this exercise. Could you let me know what is the highest note in this whole exercise?

@JeffRolka

9 ай бұрын

Tenor range singing warm ups that go over the secondo passaggio generally go to the area of about a4. I would advise you, however, to try to figure this out on your own, as it's easier than it may seem and will help with your ear training as well. There are numerous free piano apps for mobile devices or you can try this website: www.musicca.com/piano Just so we're clear, I have no affiliation with that website. When you come to the note in question, just pause the video, but keep singing the note. Pluck around on the piano until you find it, and then of course, you'll know the note. It is important to make these associations as vocalists, so that we come to know the physical feeling of the range that notes are in. All the best, Jeff

Ended up light headed

@JeffRolka

9 ай бұрын

Take a break if/when that happens. Just pause the video and get back in when you feel normal again.

Love your videos but I wish you repeat the samples a second time. I forget during the exercise.

@JeffRolka

19 күн бұрын

Noted!

I really like the darker tone at 20:40 (minor key?) Any chance of a pure minor key tenor warmup for those darker songs?

@JeffRolka

6 ай бұрын

Absolutely! There are already a few on the channel: Here's a couple just for tenors: kzread.info/dash/bejne/po2dy9N-n8fVY5s.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/dpV4q8Rxp8W7Z84.html Here are some general minor videos: kzread.info/dash/bejne/kX6d3MaamanJXaw.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/c398k8ulY7C4ktI.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/oHpk09eGXa20e6w.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/lKyIq7CvYpbIeZc.html

@lance4862

6 ай бұрын

@@JeffRolka Thank you so much!

Some Tenors go up to C5 (if I'm correct), do any of your exercises go up that high, or is that more for the very professional? Thanks for all your help.

@JeffRolka

5 күн бұрын

You're right - you want to be pretty advanced and make sure that you're getting through your registration events effectively, but any warm up of mine that is listed as 'extended range' will go to at least c5 for tenors! For example: kzread.info/dash/bejne/iaZ-xdV6f6vVYZM.html

Recently been told I'm a countertenor - is that a real thing? Do you have anything on it?

@JeffRolka

7 ай бұрын

This is a somewhat contentious topic. There are different definitions of what a countertenor could be, and so I don't have videos on it to avoid that confusion. One type, is more or less a tenore leggioro. Another is more of an affectation, usually adopted by baritone vocalists.