Switching between placements! Today we worked heavily on switching between our different placements and figuring out brain triggers to help get our voices in these appropriate placements for each song. For our pop song - "my immortal", we worked on memorizing how it FEELS rather than worrying about how it SOUNDS - making sure that we feel like we're talking it, not adding vibrato or style to it to keep it simple - and that it goes through a very forward and small place as a transition with every word. We also elaborated on the style of our song today - taking it to a place that fits our pop genre even more, and sounds even more natural. For our classical song, "think of me" - we worked on starting from a place that is more lifted (rather than full belt like our pop song), we worked on brightening the sound, and making sure that our placement remained the same regardless of vowel - so that the only thing that really changes are the small consonants we put between our big open vowels. Both of these things helped not only the transition from our pop song to our classical song - but it also helped with the transition between our lower and higher notes in our classical song.
Pop Style - adding a Cool/lazy feel
Today we also worked on making Estelle's pop song sound more stylized, effortless, and cool. We worked on taking the pronunciation of all of our words and softening it to a place of almost laziness. We keep our mouth in the same place and try and move it as little as possible while singing our verses (our trapezoidal - wide mouth, smiling place) and only drop our jaw into our triangle placement for our big high notes in the chorus. While it feels lazy (and honestly a bit crazy) - it makes our song sound more contemporary.
In our videos today, I filmed one continuous video so Estelle could watch herself switch between placements and watch the difference in her pop placement for "my immortal" as she moved to an uncomfortably lazy place. This will allow Estelle to make adjustments not only on the individual songs - but in the way she prepares her mind for switching between them.