WOW. Her warm up was amazing today!!! Her voice is building!!! We're getting some power to it!!! I'm so proud of her!
We worked on:
Syncopation, maintaining the "pop box" placement we learned and have been perfecting with our 2 previous songs, adding character to our song, and adding power!
Syncopation:
We are working with Olivia on singing different rhythms, making sure that she stays in the pocket. It's a lot of voice and brain work - but she's doing soooo awesome!! Today we worked on how to smush certain words together to make them fit the timing, emphasizing and downplaying certain parts of each word to make it sound natural while still adding style. An example would be in our song "Blank Space" - the first line is "nice to meet you - where you been". Because there are a lot of syllables to fit into the time given to sing them - we have to smush together "niceto" and "meetyou" - emphasizing the beginning of "nice" and "meet" while downplaying the "to" and "you".
It ends up sound like "niceta" "meechyou" - making it fit the rhythm of the song while still allowing Olivia to make it punchy and add style to it.
The rest of our lesson consisted of Olivia applying everything we've worked on with our last 2 songs (cutting words off, adding volume, making it punchy, adding attitude) to our new one to make sure she understood concepts and could use our tricks other places!
She is seriously crushing!!! I'm so proud of her!!!