Mah-mah, Nay-yay, slide scales all the way up, Everybody's favorite
We worked on:
1. Texturizing our low notes (new boxes)
2. Widening our high notes
Texturizing our low notes (new boxes)
In our first few songs in voice lessons, we have to make sure that we understand, feel, and apply our "baseline placement" (or the first forward placement we introduce). From there, we have to work on this placement replacing our "singing monster" (or any bad habits/ falling back into our throat) - making it the default singing voice we use. Both of these things take time and a lot of hard work as we are trying to change everything our brains and vocal cords have ever felt or thought about singing.
Once we have firmly established our baseline placement, we then start building out different parts of our voice - emphasizing certain parts of our placement in order to cater to specific genres. We call these different "boxes" or different placements because the diagram looks like a spider with our baseline in the middle - and every variation of our placement connected to it in separate boxes around it.
Today we started working on texturizing and high belt. We widened Lily's vowels on both her high and low notes, giving her a bigger sound that she can use as she stylizes her song even further. Because this is an Adele song - we wanted to make sure that Lily had enough power behind her tone so that when she does add the style to it that it doesn't sound weak, or uncontrolled. By making these notes wider and bigger, we are building a new part of Lily's voice and brain that will keep her cords quick (not add unnecessary thickness to them), while adding power. This extension of our forward placement will be a great new part of Lily's fast and slow pop songs!
Widening our high notes
We also worked on Lily's high belt - bringing her notes a little bit more forward, and widening the vowel so that we, once again, get all the power without any of the strain.