My first Halloween Vocal Warm Up video from 2020 - it also features two rounds: The Ghost of Tom (aka The Ghost of John) and The Birch Tree.

If you're lucky, you just might see my former studio cat, Celeste the Cat. Minor Key Vocal Warmups and Exercises, 2021.

Grab your costume and join in! More minor warm ups and exercises from 2022. 

In the process, I reviewed over 60 scholarly articles and came across quite a few that I think are valuable, and I imagine I'll be sharing many of these studies with you over the next few years. Today, I’d like to share a study I found entitled, “The Effect of Vocal Function Exercises on the Voices of Aging Community Choral Singers” (linked – full citation below)

In short, community singers with aging voices either did 5 weeks of Stemple Vocal Function Exercises or were part of the control group. The results summary reads:
 
Results
After VFE training, significant improvements in perceived roughness, maximum phonation time, jitter, shimmer, and noise-to-harmonics ratio were found for participants in the VFE group. However, evaluations of perceived breathiness and strain and phonational frequency range did not reveal significant changes. The VFE program was also generally perceived by the participants to have a positive effect on their voices.
 
What are the Stemple Vocal Function Exercises?
These exercises, often used by speech language pathologists, are designed to strengthen and balance speaking and singing muscles, improve vocal fold efficiency (adduction), and coordinate systems used in speaking and singing.

Article Citation:

Ya Lian Tay, E., Phyland, D. J., Oates, J. (2012). The effect of vocal function exercises on the voices of aging community
​choral singers. Journal of Voice, 26(5), 672.e19-672.e27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2011.12.014