Lesson Plan 2.28.14
Last week, it seemed that Gavin was
really aware of his body map when I introduced it to him, and so I don’t think
I’ll bring that up again. But his
head and shoulders still look a bit locked and stiff to me. I might have him sing a bit today while
letting his head be a bobble head.
That might help him find a more balanced AO joint posture.
I want to also work more on getting
that lightness in the top range, especially in coming from below. The most successful exercise last week
was [fi] on 5432123454321, so I’ll try it again this week and see what
happens. I might also try the
autopitch yodeling exercise to see if that will force him to lighten up
properly on those upper pitches. I
think he’ll get a kick out of it.
He also was finding a lot of success with yawning to get his jaw
released. I’ll use that again, and
also try adding the talking dumb exercise, where your jaw stays hanging as you
say every word.
I’ll plan on doing exercises for 15
minutes, and then working on the Quilter piece for 15 minutes. There are some phrases that go from low
to high, so I might switch between a successful exercise and a phrase from the
piece.
Here goes nothing!
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