Hot potato!^©

Listen up!

• Listen to and then learn the call-and-response chorus together

Tactics

• This warm-up requires good breath and support technique, so concentrate on this.

• First verse – hot potato: pant as if with hot food in your mouth, waving your hand to cool your mouth!

• Second verse – mashed potato: breathe deeply, without raising the shoulders, mashing imaginary potatoes in time with your breathing.

• Third verse – chipped potato: say the following, really working on the mouth and keeping in time. Invent a chopping action with your hands to accompany it! ‘Chip and chop and chip and chop and …’ etc.

• Fourth verse – baked potato: make the following appreciative noises ‘yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy…’ etc. Why not rub your tummy whilst you sing?!