Today, I still felt like I had some tension in my throat? Back of tongue? area that I couldn't quite let go of. I had released more than I had last week, but I could feel like something was still holding on, and I couldn't quite determine what that was.
I focused a lot on letting the air flow freely without interruption, no matter what pitch/vowel I was singing. I also did some "rag doll" stuff that I think helped with my neck/shoulders--I was feeling really sore from lifting my bags yesterday, so I think that's sort of contributing.
To be honest, I was kind of flailing around in my practice without much direction. I knew that I had some tension problems, but because I couldn't figure out what that was, I sort of ended up just experimenting with a lot of things that probably didn't do much to fix my problem. Maybe I'll go in later tonight and try and add more specificity to my practice...
One thing that I noticed was my vocal agility was definitely hindered by something; notes that were usually easy to switch back and forth between were really slow and heavy.
UPDATE:
So, I figured out what my tension was--at the very least, I was able to figure out what fixed it. I focused a lot more on releasing my jaw and letting it swing backward, and there were some times where I almost exaggerated how open my jaw needed to be while keeping it released, but I was able to find good release and my agility came right back! Yay!
Before all of this though, I experimented with singing some pop music because I had lost all sense of how to sing in my chest voice (weird...), and singing random pop music and not caring how I sounded really helped me to find release in my lower notes, and that helped me take baby steps towards my upper notes and finding release there.
I was running out of good ideas for experimentation to help me find release, so I decided to just watch a ton of youtube videos and observe how they sang; ease of production, simple breathing, and extremely flexible and moveable jaws that weren't ever frozen or stuck in place.
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