Practice 3/20/17

Hey! Less allergies today. Voice still felt really weird over the weekend; like something was swollen. I also feel like my default to singing these days is really "leaky" with the air, so I need to work on that. Referred to my practice blog for 3/17/17.

Lesson 2/26/16

• Do some stretching of the ribcage
• bite the apple + happy breath
• molars triangle
• watch breathiness--don't try and /make/ it go away, but expect it to. 
• soft palate stays up as you descend
• energetic release of the tone
• cheeks are really released--the space on the inside is super soft just behind the cheek flesh. 
• keep thoughts happy though
• constant space between molars
• top lip is released
• be "singing" the pitch before you're even finished inhaling
• soft palate stays up even as you descend
• vowel is a thought
• watch posture
• release tip of the tongue
• REALLY bite the apple
• don't think of forcing the folds to adduct. They'll do that on their own. 

Lesson 2/28/17

• fat tongue
• release temporal
• don't make depth; depth is breath gesture
• think of the pointiness that you want in your tone. 
• feels like it's going out of a hole in the middle of the hard palate
• think "like that" whenever you have to reascend
• take your time!
• tip of tongue is really friendly with bottom row of teeth
• if the first pitch doesn't start outside of you, you're not going to end up in a good place. 
• raised molars
• onsets! Watch them. If they feel like the folds are coming together, that's not right. 
• think opposites for vowels

Spent about 40 minutes aligning the voice, but things above G5 are just not wanting to cooperate today. They get really weird and fuzzy whenever I tried to work with them, but I stopped because I didn't want to overdo it.