We vocalized on: humming, hooty, me-me, be-be, yah-yah, boh-boh, oh-ah, everybody's favorite.
This week we did a nice long warm up, worked on mix voice, added introductions, worked on relaxing into high notes, started on performance technique.
Mix voice: In our warm up, we spent a lot of time in the mid range of Ella's voice. We're working on warming up and building the place in her voice that is the easiest to relax and still feel like you have some power behind it. Ella doesn't like to sing in a place that she feels is weak - so she is constantly pushing her voice at least a little bit past what is comfortable and correct. Because of this, we're working on building her mix voice so that she likes the way it sounds - strong - while still giving her the relaxed feel that we want so she doesn't hurt her voice.
The added work on this added to our warm up.
Performance technique/introductions: We're getting ready for the recital! Wahoo! We added introductions and movement during Ella's song. We're going to work on more specific choreography next lesson!