What are you trying to accomplish with warmups? If your routine is monotonous then you're probably not getting much out of it either.

 

You can use anything as a warmup as long as you're concentrating on your vocal production rather than the notes, which is why people generally use scales and other simple exercises. But it doesn't matter much what musical fragments you use. Change it every time. Try minor scales instead of major ones. Try simple tunes. Change vowels. I should hope that your voice teacher is giving you instructions about what you're intended to learn from the exercises. If s/he hasn't, ask!

Hi, Stacy.  That's a question that should go directly to your voice teacher.  Whatever warmups he or she has you doing, you can bet that they are chosen for more than one reason, and not being monotonous is not necessarily one of those reasons!  But do ask, because you should be learning how to work with and understand your own voice as well as how to work with other voices, if that turns out to be something you'll be doing in the future.

 

All the best,

 

John

 

 

Hi Stacy. Simple variations can really make a difference in warming up your mind as well as your voice. To stray from triadic arrppegios, you can arrppegiate a dominant 7th chord going up half steps. Also, instead of singing scales 'do' to 'do', adding the nineth on top makes a huge difference. Varying tempo, dynamics, vowels, tonality, and rhythm are all simple ways to alter the warm-up routine you already have in place. It is good to have exercises that work for your voice and that are also forcing you to work on the weak points in your technique. Perhaps stick with your routine, but try adding new exercises to see which ones work and which do not. I also agree to consult your teacher about these things, your teacher will have a deep insight to what could work for your voice specifically and help you acheive more vocally. I hope this helped!