Elizabeth T Gavin N Lesson Record/Reaction 1.31.14

Lesson Reaction/Record 1.31.14

I asked him how he was feeling, and he said that he had a bit of a cold, and that it was making his voice a bit lower than normal.  “That’s bad, right?” he asked, which made me laugh.  I told him that I am believer that we can figure out how to sing around many kinds of weird sick feelings. 

            I decided to start with posture.  We hung our bodies like rag dolls, and I asked him to release his head and shake it.  I told him to slowly roll up one vertebrae at a time, so that you stay hanging as long as possible.  It can be as fast or as slow as you want.  To that, he said he was just following my lead, which I told him was just fine.  I told him to pile each vertebrae on top of the other one at a time, until it’s all straight, and the last thing to straighten is the head.  (I realize in hindsight that this was a stupid posture activity, and I’m not going to do it anymore.) 

            I talked with him about my observation that is shoulders are a bit raised in his everyday life, and he disagreed.  He said that his shoulders are down, and I guessed that is was perhaps because he is a muscle-y dude.  However, I still feel that there is some improvement to be made on the tension in his shoulders, but I’m not exactly sure…  But I decided to talk about some shoulder ideas just for good measure.  I showed him first the toaster exercise (“You can’t put the toaster in the slot unless you bring them up and set them down.”)  We also tried doing wall pushups again, and he knew that this was for stretching out the pectoral muscles, and he said, “Mine are pretty stretchy, so I think I’m good.” 

            Then we started singing….. but apparently the rest of the lesson didn’t record…

I waited much too long to do this lesson record, and therefore, I remember nothing of what we worked on.  Which is extremely unfortunate.  So I guess this is it.