Jared Daley Camille B Lesson record/reactions for 2/7

SO we started with the stretching and i could tell it helped her mood and her stiffness immediately. we then went straight into the silent 8 exercise. It wasn't working like i wanted it to, so i switched to the hums and the the descending 5 [a] then tried again with the silent 8. we started on about a A in the middle of the staff and worked our way up. She did alright, i felt dumb because i wasn't sure how to fix what i was hearing. it was a lot of air passing through during the silent note. Almost breath farty. but i kept going just to see if it was a consistent thing. I really wasn't getting what i wanted from the exercise. it was still harsh and not fluid. So i gave up on that and we did it a lot lower and i just play a really high note and told her to think about singing that high but to sing these lower notes at the bottom of the staff. I continued to play the high note throughout the exercise. She said it wasn't helping and that it just annoyed her. So i laughed about that for awhile and really didn't know what to do. I felt stumped that day. So i went to the songs and told her to sing them in her pleasant voice and that she can always add more grown up sound later. On I can hear the bells she actually sounded really good there wasn't a lot of tension, just weird head movements and posture slouching. So I told her to get in the correct posture and she went into her old "singing' formation. So I yelled at her kind of and said that's not the posture we've been working on is it? she said sorry it's just a habit, and it didn't feel good as soon as I did it. SO that made me happy that she was aware that it didn't feel good or wasn't right.