I started off the lesson just by talking to Cameron a little bit about how he was doing etc. he said that he had been trying to remember the posture technique stuff in his choir classes and that he felt it was helping.
I started off with the normal neck and back stretches, rotating the neck in circles in both directions, and letting the head and back hang down reaching with the hands down to the feet. We then started singing with a soft vocalize starting on A3 and going down on an "a" vowel. Instead of going through the scale for a while without correcting anything like last week, I stopped quite a few time in this exercise to correct his posture and his nervous body movements that I think May be a hard habit for him to break. When he sings in the middle or higher part of his range he gets very nervous and his body starts to wiggle around and he crosses his arms and just does kind if nervous twitch type things. So I would have him start lower in his range where he seems very comfortable then I would switch up to higher notes and do a scale right away with no break and I would try and track his body I to see if he was still doing those nervous body movements, he improved a little bit when I would have him do the low scale-high scale jumps like that.
By this time the lesson was already almost over! ( I can't believe how fast time goes when I'm teaching)
So I wanted to work on the hymn we worked on last time before he left to see if he could sing the higher notes with more confidence and technique this time. With a few reminders to have a good breathing posture and a big space he was able to sing the second stanza which has the highest phrase in the song, not only was he able to do it on one breath but he sang all the notes and he didn't get nervous and give up like he did before. And the tone was improved from the first time we did it last time. It was very cool to see his improvement in this lesson.
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