Today, I decided to try just singing, not worrying about how my voice sounds from the get-go. I've caught myself getting into the habit of "setting up" rather than just letting the voice do its thing and having a "curious" approach to vocalization.
I'm trying to figure out how to sing my [i] vowels without having them sound brassy/squeezy. It's weird, because I don't feel like there's tension when I sing it, but it comes out sounding like there is. So I worked on trying to add more [o] to my sound, leaning more towards [I], and I was trying to figure out that "above the molars" space. My only problem with that is that I have a tendency to try and place the sound there, rather than just searching for the space.
I experimented with "floating/falling down" not only onto the pitch, but onto the vowel? If that makes any sense. It seemed to help, but I have to be careful not to swallow the notes when I do that.
I worked on not plopping down onto lower pitches as I descend in the scale; I kept thinking upwards as I went down.
I reminded myself that if the tip of the tongue isn't touching the bottom row of teeth, you might be tightening/retracting somewhere. I also experimented with the idea of having the mouth be where the sound happens to come out, and the source of the sound comes from a deeper source like we talked about in master class yesterday.
Felt much more released and "high" today. I'll have to come back later tonight to reestablish it.
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