However, after doing some approach-from-above exercises, and keeping things light, my speaking voice is now functioning acceptably. Another thing I should note is that I may have been recruiting some root of the tongue tension in my exercises earlier this week, because that area feels a little tight today, and it's more noticeable with the swelling.
- Lesson 2/26/16 for warm ups.
- Lesson 9/11/16
- Ride on top of the air!! Not air behind the sound.
- I'm skipping the "many" exercise, because I can't ever seem to release well on my own with that one.
- I paused the lesson because my voice wasn't ready to move on with the recording. I decided to do more exercises in a descending pattern in the middle range of my voice (G4-C5), and I focused on my jaw and allowing the pitch to land from above. My jaw is stiffening because I realize I've been trying to position it, rather than letting it fall into place.
- I held a pencil in my teeth and worked on finding internal space before allowing the jaw to fall open.
- I'm noticing that anything above D5 doesn't want to open up into the resonance that I would like. And... as I'm typing this out, I'm thinking maybe because the passagio is being a beast. So, I'm going to try starting out higher (F5/G5 ish) very light, and then falling into speech-like when I go down. "why not"
- I got a little frustrated, so I lay on the floor and let gravity do its thing, and when I got up, things were a little better.... My jaw feels tight still, for some reason, and so does the back of my tongue.
I spent about 40 minutes on vocalizes, and now I feel a little better, but I'm still struggling to find adequate resonance in my singing that isn't too diffused. The problem is, I can't find better release when my resonance is diffused, and it's difficult to center the sound while remaining released.
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