Today we worked on adding things to Ella's baseline placement to go beyond making her sound like she has a beautiful voice. Having a beautiful voice was goal #1 - and Ella graduated from that with flying colors. Our placements are second nature to her and she understands how to change and manipulate her voice. Now, we take this beautiful baseline placement that we have created through all Ella's hard work - and we get to take it to certain extremes to make Ella's voice not only sound beautiful - but more interesting and colorful! We have worked outside our baseline placement before on musical theater songs (widening our placement and exploring different parts of the forwardness), and our pop box (condensing our placement, making it smaller, squeakier, easier to manuver). Now, we are adding texture and style!
In order to make Ella's new song sound more interesting, we widened her low notes adding "Ah" to her vowels to give her more space and tone to scat with, softening the pronunciation of the words so that they more easily flow together, and we punched up parts of her verses to give them a little bit more energy and to add dynamics!
High belt: Widening vowels
We also worked o Ella's high belt - widening her vowels, going to our "Darla placement", making sure that we use parts of our pop box by condensing the beginning of the words (whiieee aaahhhh yeewww), and our musical theater placement by widening the end of her words - so that over all she gets a big sound that is easy for her to access and doesn't put unhealthy pressure on her cords!