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Creative Teachers – Primary choral warm-ups – 26. Ih-orh-ih-orh

[music playing]

RACHEL KELLY: This one, I like to think of as a bit of a different kind of a siren-- a siren that you might hear on a fire engine, or something like that. So it goes--

(SINGING) Ee Or Ee Or Ee Or Ee Or Ee. Sing that.

STUDENTS: (SINGING) Ee Or Ee Or Ee Or Ee Or Ee

RACHEL KELLY: Good. When I do this warm-up with my vowels Ee and Or, I try and sing them without changing the shape of my mouth too much. OK? So I'm trying not to do this. [vocalising] That sounds pretty disgusting, doesn't it? OK. So we want a lovely transition between the two vowels. So you need to keep a long shape.

(SINGING) Ee Or Ee Or Ee Or Ee Or Ee. Try it.

STUDENTS: (SINGING) Ee Or Ee Or Ee Or Ee Or Ee.

RACHEL KELLY: (SINGING) Da-da.

STUDENTS: (SINGING) Ee Or Ee Or Ee Or Ee Or Ee.

RACHEL KELLY: (SINGING) Da-da.

STUDENTS: (SINGING) Ee Or Ee Or Ee Or Ee Or Ee.

RACHEL KELLY: (SINGING) Let's keep our faces bright.

STUDENTS: (SINGING) Ee Or Ee Or Ee Or Ee Or Ee.

RACHEL KELLY: (SINGING) Da-da.

STUDENTS: (SINGING) Ee Or Ee Or Ee Or Ee Or E.

RACHEL KELLY: (SINGING) One more.

STUDENTS: (SINGING) Ee Or Ee Or Ee Or Ee Or Ee.

RACHEL KELLY: Lovely.