Taylee - Lesson Summary 10/28/13

The next couple of lesson summaries are pretty short (which makes me feel even dumber for waiting till the last minute to do them). Since my recital was just around the corner we mostly focused on running through songs. As we were warming up we discussed my last lesson and how I was feeling in comparison to Friday (the last lesson). The previous lesson was rotten. I couldn't release and I was messing up things that I didn't ever mess up on, like the words to songs I had had memorized since the beginning of the semester. This lesson I decided that I was just going to be more aware. I can't "make" anything happen, I can only observe, then think what I want to have happen instead/differently/stay the same and just let my body do it. I still struggled on some of the words of my most recently memorized songs. However, I knew that I connected well with the emotions of those songs, so I wasn't worried about getting them. Since those 2-3 songs were my weak point, we focused on them. Well I did better than my last lesson, there were still tension and weird moments, but it was better. It took a long time to find the needed release in my body during vocalizes, but perhaps that wasn't a bad thing because I was pretty much working in my "sweet spot" due to the struggle and then needing to be more focused.