This lesson we did an extra long warm up, introduced harder scats, worked on (and through) Walker's soft belt because he was getting a little sick, worked on rounding out our vowels and making them more natural, and continued to work on our forward ballad placement.
Soft belt: Especially when a student is sick - soft belt is the best thing they can learn. It helps them preserve their voice when it can cause trauma to the chords (cough, lost voice, sore throat, ect.) while maintaining the sound that we want - as opposed to a low falsetto/crack-y place with their low notes.
Rounding vowels and making it more natural: We worked on this last time as well. Because Walker is in a place where singing correctly is his natural default singing voice - we now go through the motions of going all the way forward (talking it out) and then finding a comfortable place that sounds a little bit more round and pretty (and natural) beyond that initial first placement.
From here we can add more and more style as we get into his song.
He did awesome!! It was really great having 2 lessons back to back!
**Youtube and Google photo have decided to make my life complicated and not upload. As soon as they fix the problem i will embed his after video into his progress report. Until then - there is a link to his video.