Style: Simple, trailing forward, wide on top Today we worked heavily on stylizing our song - taking it from a correct placement, to a performance ready song filled with different ways we are customizing the song! We worked mainly on things that separate pop ballads from other genres: Simple style: We worked on removing the vibrato to help control the sound better and make it sound a little bit more effortless Trailing forward: Because we are further simplifying our words by cutting them off - The natural tendency is to trail off back in our throats, ending with a guttural sound that mutes the end of the word and makes it hard for our voices to get back into the correct placement for the beginning of the next word (resulting in less control of the beginning of the words, notes that are out of tune, harder to stylize and scat on). We worked today on taking our simple style from a staccato like sound to a contemporary trailing off sound - that ends with the end of the word more forward than the beginning. We think of it as each word following the movement of a water fall, keeping each note controlled, and in tune! Wide on top: We also elaborated on our "wide vowel" concept - making sure that on our chorus, our high notes are as big and open as we can make them - without adding unnecessary unhealthy pressure to our vocal cords.