Emily C.: Joint Practice, 10/28/13
Shalayna and I worked on keeping our jaws apart when speaking the text and maintaining space between the back molars, especially since I have a habit of keeping my mouth sort of closed when singing. We used Tootsie Rolls to do this. We also talked about keeping our breath engaged and encouraging the airflow to continue through the end of the phrase (avoiding the harsh glottal stop at the end of phrases to force the breath to end, causing the subdued “cough” sound you get from exhaling after the glottal stop). We picked a vowel that we were good at (i.e. “oo”) and sang one of my pieces, “Pieta Signore” on that vowel, trying to maintain good airflow and keeping the molars apart, relaxing the jaw.
(On a side note: The things we worked on during this session were almost exactly the same things Cindy had me work on in my Master Class...)
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