Practice 10/17/16 and Lesson Summary 10/14/16

Warm-Up
Started out with a pretty "normal" voice. Nothing particularly strange. Some mild reflux. 

• Lesson 10/10/16 follow for ~20-25 minutes.
• Watch posture
• maintain connection 

Lesson Take-Aways:

• You don't need your face/body to make a sound. Just let it go!
• Breathe on your vowel. Watch clavicular breathing. 

Summary: 

• Lesson 10/14/16
• Don't be afraid to release the jaw
• Body and face is neutral! You don't need extra movement/contortions to get what you want!
• "ya/yo" 8531
• Watch tip of the tongue--it's anchored against the bottom row of teeth.
• The heel of the tongue mobile
• breathe in with the "y"
• Watch "hyo." Just "yo." 
• "gai lai" 5432123454321
• less "singy." Simple.
• [g] is crisp and high
• "sh+Vowel" 8-7654321-3-5-87654321 etc. 
• Release the spine as you release air. 
• Try planting the feet and twisting/swinging arms out in a horizontal propeller motion to release the back as you sing. You're bracing too much. 
• [mi si] 54321
• Watch that the [m] stays flexible in the soft palate
• [s] release jaw
• [a e o] 1353-135853-135838531. 
• Stretchy, luxurious feeling. 
• No change in pressure, just change in stretch
• not up and down, but through. 
• vowel internal 
• You don't have to work; just stay out of its way
• As you ascend, there isn't more pressure, but there's more concentration of the sound. 
• Watch that you don't brace with the root of the tongue

Now that I've done some vocalization and singing, I feel pretty good about my middle range and low range, but I've having a hard time finding that balance of "concentration" in the sound while maintaining release so it doesn't feel like I'm screeching, especially for my A5s....