Today we introduced a new placement! Our Pop Ballad placement! We will continue to work on our baseline forward placement at every lesson, but as we continue to explore specific genres - we will expand upon this baseline placement, emphasizing different parts of it for different genres and songs to customize our voice and cater to each song and performance a little bit differently. With pop ballads, we shift our placement a little bit more forward, taking more bass out of it to further thin out our vocal cords to make them more agile for quicker scats and thinner style choices like texture and breath (versus heavy vibrato). We worked on simplifying our style and moving to a more conversational talking place to make our song sound more natural, and to make it easier to manipulate and control.
Widening vowels/ pop style
We also worked on the pop version of what we started doing with our classical "Think of me" song, with widening our vowels. In a high belt/pop placement, widening our vowels helps make our sound bigger without having to increase volume or pressure on our vocal cords, and adds a stylistic element that rounder vowels are lacking.