Jake lesson record reactions: Paul #7

We began the lesson just by talking a bit, I just wanted to see how he was doing and all that stuff. He wanted to know if there were more things he could do to fix his head position and alignment, ( such a great student!) I told him that it was something that we would both have to work on and that it would take time to get it down most likely. But I assured him that little by little it I would come and he would be able to feel when he was assuming the correct posture.
We then did some back and neck stretches, the normal ones we always do, just to get him nice and released, (me too)
He said that he really likes these stretches before these lessons, I told him that he should do them all the time! Not just only when he is singing.
We started singing with some soft vocalizes, I started on B flat and descended down on a five note scale on an ( a) vowel. During these scales I would give him one word cues to help him remember what I wanted him to think about/do, such as "rose" "light" "easy" I think he responds well to these cues, due to the fact that the sound improved most of the time after giving said cues. We continued these scales until he reached a low A.
We moved on to ascending scales while staying on the (a) vowel. This time I asked him for more energy on these scales as opposed to our "light" and " easy" scales from before. I reminded him that I still wanted the light and easy feeling but with more energy and urgency. We started on C3 and worked our way up to F#4 right in the passagio. While he was singing these scales my wooden cues mainly consisted of "space" and " don't change anything" I also demonstrated a little bit so he could hear what I wanted and I sang with him a little as well. I feel he gets a little more confident when I sing with him on things like that.
We then worked on the hymn that he had chosen to sing, and tried to apply these concepts from our warm ups into the song. By the time we got done singing through it once, the time was up for the lesson. I asked him if he would be able to practice the hymn by himself and try to remember those wooden cues I had given him and he said yes.
Overall I'm really happy with how Paul is doing! He is so smart so it's really easy being his teacher.. Haha