Kim Chandler proves your warm-ups are stuck in the major scale - then hands you chromatic, pentatonic, Dorian, Lydian and whole-tone exercises to fix it.

Session singer and CCM coach Kim Chandler argues that most vocal exercise libraries over-rely on major-scale patterns, and that contemporary music demands more. You'll work through a live ear-training game: she plays pop hooks - Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys, Sting, Michael Jackson, a Mark Ronson cover - and you identify the scale or mode, then immediately sing an exercise built on it. Covered: chromatic, blues, minor pentatonic, Lydian (including her Lydian sandwich), Dorian, Phrygian, Locrian, whole tone and the diminished/octatonic scale, plus ten modal variations on the familiar 1-2-1 pattern. For teachers who want musicianship training running alongside technique.