Here is the advice I got from Cindy in my lesson comments:
- Don’t use “L” if the student is having trouble scooping,
use a bilabial instead.
- Try rib raiser activities from Oren Brown.
- Make sure you point out which attempts you liked the best
- “h” is not a good intial consonants for beginning students
- Remember to ask which attempt he likes best, always with a
criteria though.
- Try exercises that will benefit them in more than one area
at a time.
- Remember that low breathing, to the beginning student,
will feel like less air, but in the long run it will be more efficient.
- try using “bipe” in an exercise
- Don’t instruct them to yawn while singing, but to sing
while in the place of almost about to yawn.
I want to continue working on neck tension this week. I have not tried having him dangle his
head, which could help him realize it more readily. I also want to help him with some dropping and releasing
breath. I will bring up the
grocery analogy with him, I think it might help. I want to point out to him that a low breath will feel like
less air, but it will work better.
I want to ask him more about which attempts he liked this lesson, which
I forget to do sometimes. I’m
realizing that the yawning is helping him release his jaw, but at the expense
of a bright and resonant tone. So
I need some other strategies for jaw release. Maybe I’ll have him massage his jaw a bit at the beginning,
and then try some dumb speak, emphasizing that the jaw has only one position,
released and open.
Here’s a list of some exercises I can try at this lesson:
“bipe” on 54321
“ba-ee” on 53421, making sure the jaw is released for the “ee”
on the 1.
yaw yaw yaw 531, I think this will be good for letting the
jaw fall open
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