This week:
Lily had her first lesson this week! She did awesome!!
Each week we'll break down our lessons into a few different categories:
"This week", "Things to remember", our progress videos, and reminders to bring a new song at the appropriate times.
At our first lesson we introduce so many new things:
- Vocalizing and matching pitch: Lily has a great ear! We started getting silly here to to help her warm up her nerves.
- Relaxing the voice while singing: I make all my students promise me at the beginning of their lessons that they will do all the silly ridiculous things that I ask them to do because it will make them a better singer. You'll see this in their videos as i make them wiggle in a variety of weird ways. Some of the motions are to remind them to do very specific things (there will be a lot of forward arm movement). Some of the motions are to distract them so that they can't squeeze their vocal chords when hitting exceptionally high or low notes in their song - you can't hurt your voice, or sing incorrectly in an unsafe way, if you're rolling your head and moving your shoulders. It helps accomplish what we need to and we take the motions out the more lessons they have and more we move into performance technique.
- New placements : a new placement with our voice is an interesting thing. With our first few lessons we're trying to get Lily to feel her voice in a different way. We do this not only for sound quality and vocal technique but also for safety of her chords. The first placement we introduce is singing like we talk. While the students are figuring out how this feels with their voice we break it down in ways that are easy to do. We call this "talk it out".
You'll hear me talking throughout their videos, saying all sorts of things that don't make sense. They make sense to your student I promise! As I remind them in real time of the different things to focus on in their song.
Now that you know what to expect - Here is your first lesson break down!
This week:
- We introduced vocalizing.
- We vocalized on: humming, lip buzz, be-be, yah-yah.
- We introduced our new placement: singing like we talk, and started moving his voice to a more "forward" place.
Things to remember:
- Smile!! It brings your voice forward! and it will look awesome on stage :)
- Sing through your teeth!
- Sing like we talk!
- COMMIT to it!!
Because Lily has such awesome natural style - these placements will feel extra weird for her at the beginning - hang in there Lily!! We are doing such cool things with her voice!! It will start to feel natural very very soon!!
She seriously did SO awesome!!
Here are our videos from this week!
Before/End of our lesson:
Great job Lily! See you on Wednesday!
Labels: Lily Schaeffer