This week:
Olivia started making up voice lessons because she has been sick - so this week and next week, we have 2 lessons a week. This will do amazing things for Olivia's voice - the same way exercising a few times a week is so much better than just once.
Our goals with Olivia's voice will be the same for the next little bit - "build and bigger".
We are slowly building up the strength of her voice while extending her range so that her voice is more powerful - so that she can handle adding more volume without straining her vocal chords. We are doing this by increasing our strengthening exercises in our warm ups (we have lengthened her warm ups for this reason) - we start slow and then push into each exercise a little bit more, increasing the difficulty of the vowel as we go higher.
In her song "Colors of the wind" - we've worked a lot on extending her range so that she is more comfortable with the high notes. To do this we have done a lot of "mix voice" exercises.
The "Bigger" part of our goal is to get Olivia more and more comfortable with her performing. Our goal is with each song to be bigger, add more character, and be more confident with movement than the last. It's going great!