Jared Daley lesson summary 4/09

So this was my first lesson after I failed my recital preview and wanted to give up singing. I wasn't excited about going. Cindy told me to be prepared to warm myself up and she'd watch me and give notes, and then to bring something I enjoyed singing to the lesson to work on. She would jump in and take over when she felt necessary. I started off doing some hums into [a] and descending 5 notes scales.  I did some scales starting descending then "bouncing" off the bottom note into a lighter top note. I did some vocalizes I learned from Mary Saunders and did some "Never never no" s randomly throughout my range and ending with some "Hey" s. Cindy liked most of the things I did, except she didn't like the hey's because they started on an aspirate sound. We then worked together on some musical theatre pieces. What we did was something very different. We wanted to give my voice the feeling of doing different things on different notes. So where I would usually be louder and fuller we would make it lighter and do the opposite in different places. it was giving my voice a chance to have an experience singing a note many different ways so when it's time to sing that note for real, I have options in my arsenal on what to use and how to sing it.