Elizabeth Tait Lesson 9/30/13

It's pretty amazing to look back on lessons and understand what Cindy was teaching in light of Oren Brown.  Just saying:

• L shaped tone is a good idea to remember.  That tone has rich fullness as recognized by my ears, but it doesn't feel fat on the inside.
• "ngngngngngng" at the beginning of a warm up is a good way to coax the sound forward if it's stuck back
• Pretend the tone is going out your nose, but then suck it back into your head.
• The better my sound is, the less I can determine where it is.
• If something is going wrong with the sound, don't immediately jump in to correct it.  Let the body figure it out for a while (this can also apply to being a choir teacher)
• high snotty focus and adequate space are not mutually exclusive!!
• A lot of the warm ups we worked on that day were trying to relinquish myself from the tyrant of Register 2.  We did this by getting Register 3 lower and lower.