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What are warm-ups for?
What are warm-ups for? Choir leaders hear this plaintive cry from time to time. What's the point of warming up? Can't we just start singing? Well, the answer is yes, we can just start singing. Singing is the most natural activity in the world and as long as we don't launch straight into the final movement of Beethoven 9, we're unlikely to do ourselves a nasty. However, the singing voice is a largely muscular system. Like any muscles, our singing muscles prefer to be used gently before we put...