As I'm listening to all of my lessons, I'm noticing that I am over-complicating a lot of things. I often hear Brianna tell me to just "think simple", or "we're not singing, we just speaking". Some specifics: I tend to close my nasal passage, as Brianna called it, on my dark "ah", in an attempt to feel the forward presence; I could use a lot more buoyancy in my body, since I tend to a lot like a robot trying to emphasize everything.
The previous week I'd had my memory check, on week 7. Yikes! But I actually did pretty good. Brianna had forgotten that it was my memory check though, so when I ran out of time (doing 13 songs with 10 being a different languages = 23 texts) even having passed some off already in previous lessons, she let me finish this week. I did a new vocalize as well this week. I started in [i] and gradually moved to [e] on 1,3,3,5,5,8,8,5,5,3,3,1,1. I was suppose to get to [e] by the top and then stay there on the way down. As I sang this vocalize, I was suppose to work on feeling a "stretch" as if I was pulling in a boat. As I'm listening, I can hear my tongue really affecting the vowels. However, I remember really feeling good as a sang this. I felt the pitch in my mask and I really felt the "pull" from my imaginary boat tugging. I LOVED this lesson. I came out feeling so good! I sang my aria at this lesson, and I was so excited by the way I felt both in resonance and in simplicity in the body. Easily my favorite lesson of the semester!
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