Moving to a more melodic place! Today we worked on moving our forward "talking it out" placement to a more melodic place (one that sounds and feels more like singing). We started our lesson by going over what we had learned and worked on in our first 2 lessons - and followed the progression to build up Hannah's brain to get her to the place we needed her. We sang through her song in a purely talked place (week 1), several times - reacquainting Hannah's brain with the strange feeling of our forward placement. Then, we started to move to our more conversational place (week 2), by softening the pronunciation of our words a little bit. Then, finally, we worked on relaxing into our talked place entirely so that our pronunciation became a little bit wider (to take out any harsh edges left), and making each line sound a little bit more melodic - or sing-y. It's important that we go through these steps our first few lessons so that Hannah's "singing monster" or bad/unhealthy habits become something she can feel as she sings. Moving through our placements in this way allow her to differentiate between the two. She did so great!!