*** ATTENTION *** The new website is now at students.voicelessonbootcamp.com: Lily Schaeffer: Performance prep!

Today we worked on moving between all the different placements we have worked on in order to get ready for our Fall concert! Because every placement that we do is an extension of our baseline/forward placement - switching genres, styles, or speed of a song isn't strenuous on our vocal cords, it is however a bit of a brain teaser at first. In our Fall concert, we have made sure to pick different kinds of songs so that we can show off all the different parts of Lily's awesome voice! With each song we sing, we use a slightly different part of our placement in an extreme way:

When we were young: This is our big pop ballad. The main focus of this song is the big powerful notes (making the big triangle with our mouth, and adding "ah" to the middle of our vowels to get a big sound without having to add unhealthy pressure to our vocal cords). In the verses, we widen the vowel (as we will in our other pop songs), and adopt a lazy- kind of style where we soften the pronunciation of our words to make it sound more effortless and cool.

Lost Boy: This song is our style song! It's not extremely range intensive (or doesn't go really high or really low) - so it allows us to focus on how much style we can put into it! In order to do this, we alter the pronunciation of our words - making this the widest placement we will use. In this song we go to an almost weird sounding wide place when we map out our pronunciation phonetically.

Love Story: This is our upbeat pop song! With this song, we take all the bass out of our voice - taking it to an extremely forward place to increase vocal agility (or the ability to go really fast, scat, and add style to a fast song). The style we add to this song is all about simplicity and keeping our words punchy (or emphasizing the consonants to give our song a percussive like movement).

As we are working on switching between placements - we are also working on switching up our performance technique so that every song looks a little bit different on stage!

When we were young: With this song, we have added a microphone stand. We worked on different places for Lily to put her hands on and around the stand and the frequency in which she should switch between the moves.

Lost boy: This song, we are working on adding microphone drops so that Lily looks in control, and arm movement that switches up the rhythm of the song so she has options other than swaying to the song.

Love Story: Because this is our fast song, we are working on rhythmic movement - making sure that Lily approaches it much different than her slow songs. We are adding heal taps, different side steps, and working on Lily really getting into the rhythm of the song.