We began with me sharing the vocalizes I use to warm up for my Butterworth song cycle. I focused on breath suspension, opening immediately to the vowel and tone from a consonant without losing the position of the inhale. After several vocalizes I sang the first couple of phrases of the Butterworth piece with a focus on those same things from my vocalizes. Having Jaron there helped because he could watch and listen to see if I was achieving the same proficiency in the song as I was with the vocalizes. I got good feedback on when my breath would collapse and he encouraged me to stand up more and stay away from the piano more during practice. It was good to hear because with my piano background it's tempting to sit at the piano and use it the help me but my piano posture isn't the same as my singing posture...
Then I observed Jaron as he showed me what he'd been working on with his Debussy piece. I noticed that he chunked the song into smaller sections and was practicing speaking the text with all the proper lip positions he and Cindy had gone over in his lesson. He did a small section, slowed it down, sped it up, then connected it with the next section, slowing it down, speeding it up, and repeating. Overall I thought it was a very effective way to master the text of a piece. Chunking! He shared with me some of the vocalizes he uses to connect his upper register with his lower register crossing the passagio. That's something I myself have a hard time doing but I'll adopt some of his vocalizes. It was also refreshing to see how precise Jaron is with his intervals. I helped him watch out for adding h's at the beginning of his 'a' vowels. It was good for me to see how he practiced and I learned a lot from just observing.
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