We vocalized on: humming, lip buzz, me-me, be-be, be-eee, boh-boh, yah-yah
This week we worked on Emma's transitions throughout her vocal range, keeping her placement and sound consistent, widening her vowels, and relaxing into her high notes.
Transitions: We started working on Emma's mix voice with her warm up, making sure that we warmed up a lot on the softer side. We're working hard to build her voice from the light side up instead of taking the power she has that is hard to manipulate and dangerous to sing in all the time. As we continue to build her voice in our correct placement we're able to control her "transitions" or make it so that her voice has some consistency - that you can't tell when she switches registers. She's doing so awesome!
Keeping her placement: The hard thing about tackling our building process from the light side is that it's easier to fall out of the correct placement when your voice is more forgiving (or lighter). We worked on making sure her voice would stay forward as we lightened it up, making her high notes less shrill and more warm and bright.
Widening her vowels: as an extension to our regular forward placement, with ballads (particularly musical theater ballads) we widen our vowels to make them sound warmer - as opposed to our "pop" forward placement that is a smaller place for voice agility.
Relaxing into her high notes: we continued our exercises to make sure Emma relaxes when she sings - it's coming along great!!!!
Even though Emma will be gone for our recital (insert all the sad face emojis here), we're treating her voice lessons like all my other students - like performance bootcamp training! Because of this we'll still work on stage techniques, performance techniques, and what we did today - introductions!!
Our lesson:
Before:
End of our lesson:
Awesome job Emma!! Have fun in New York! Happy Thanksgiving! See you next week!