Emily C., Amanda G., Lesson Plan for 2/6/14

Emily C., Amanda G., Lesson Plan for 2/6/14

Plans:

• I’m going to do the squatting/using the chair method to help her to understand visceral displacement and proper breathing technique so she can actually feel how she’s supposed to breathe when I say to breathe low. I think I’ll incorporate this with the “shh” exercise. 
• I’ll do some sirens with her because she tends to lack energy in her singing. 
• I am going to try and take her away from the keyboard; she likes to watch me and gets nervous the higher I go (I do this myself in my own lesson; I can’t look at the keyboard). 
• I’m going to do some gorilla/dog panting with her to get her to engage her breathing more and become more aware of it.

Goals:

Short:

• I want to establish good breathing/posture so that it becomes habitual for her. 
• I want to find some vocalizes to help her be more active in her singing; she tends to fall into a “lull” when singing. 

Long:

• I would like for her to become more “attached” to what she’s singing. It seems that she lacks emotional connection to the music, and I hope to encourage her musical sense to give her more interpretational freedom.