A tight tongue or jaw are often the culprits getting in the way of your best possible tone.  Check out this great exercise for relaxing the tongue and jaw. 

Your pitch accuracy in singing is greatly improved if you tune all the intervals in the major scale.  Here’s an exercise for that.

It feels like all the notes in the major scale are about the same distance from each other, but they’re not! This is why it’s helpful to tune your scales.

One of the most common places we can be off pitch is on the highest and lowest notes in a melody line. Here’s an exercise to help you iron that out.

This light exercise helps open up your head range.

This is a wonderful light exercise with two closed vowels that tend to pull in opposite directions (front and back).

If your voice gets tight as you ascend on the vowel EE, try this exercise.  The “SH”, an unvoiced fricative, can help you find the airflow and support necessary to release your throat.

This light exercise with a larger interval helps you compare your production of lower and higher notes, and sing both more easily.

This low-larynx exercise helps you counter the tendency to raise your larynx for higher pitches – a critical skill for singing with freedom. It is also a great light mix exercise.

The jaw and tongue can often retain tension that prevents healthy singing. Here’s a great exercise for stretching them out.