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This is my initial entry regarding vocal methods so first some background.  I am taking a vocal methods class for education majors at UGA and will try and share the links to the various resources that are publicly accessible along with any other thoughts I might have about the class or topic as the class progresses.  The initial emphasis appears to be on posture and warm up techniques.  The initial assignment is to determine our own singing range.  At this time I am not particularly sure how I want to organize this information, whether as a blog post or as discrete articles indexed in some other way.  My primary concern here is just capturing the relevant information and providing sufficient explanations and passing it on.

The first link is to a site by Deborah Sasson called Singwell - A guide on your vocal journey.  Since our emphasis in class is on warm-up exercises there is a page  called Vocal exercises - for everything! that contains over two hours of videos of warm-up exercises, range exercises, resonance exercises, chest voice / belting exercises, head voice exercises, mixed voice exercises, and vocal exercises, all with introductory comments and instructions on how certain parts of the exercises should be done.  This should take a little bit of time to go through and assimilate but wait!  There's more...

Nest is the '5 Minute Vocal Warm Up, a YouTube video from Jacobs Vocal Academy that provides a short vocal warm up for those really pressed for time.  

The third link Ep: 30 - Vocal and Body Warmup - Jeff Alani Stanfill - vocal coach and it is a 23 minute video with a 10 minute full body warm-up followed by five vocal warm-ups using five note scales on vowels or phrases.

The next four warm-ups are all by Jeff Rolka and are full range singing warm ups for Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Tenor, and Baritone, each of which is between 15 and 18 minutes each.

This is followed by a short called Vocal warm-up ideas and process: Danielle de Niese which focuses on airflow, nasal resonance, trilling, and stabilisation.

The final warm-up video is a 14 minute Professional Vocal Warmup 1 - "Opening Up The Voice" by Eric Arceneaux.  While providing similar techniques to the other videos he puts a slight spin on the process.

Now for some of my own notes.  I will need to establish a vocal warmup routine for myself that incorporates several of these points.  With regards to stretching the body out I would like to learn to use one of the tai-chi forms and I think the concepts are applicable to the stretching described in many of the articles and other resources.