Jake Spjute Paul Lesson Record/Reactions

Neck stretches, rolling around in a circle three times both ways. Hung over back/neck stretch with deep breathes, swaying gently left to right.
Descending pentatonic scales on an "a" vowel. I explained how this is a good warm up to begin vocalizing with. We started on C4 and went down to D3. I stopped him there and asked him if he could make more space in his mouth, reminding him to separate his molars and breath through the rose. I told him that I noticed him reach up with his jaw and it also was wiggling kind of as well. I asked him if he could relax his jaw and keep it open and free. After 3 scales I noticed that the sound improved, it seemed more free and the sound flowed out. Whereas before it was kind of jagged from note to note.
 I decided to have him do a breathing exercise. I had him put his hands on his ribs so he could feel the expansion and I told him to think of the rose and breath through his nose. We did it together five times. I asked him if he noticed that he has a lot of air to work with, as he was monitoring the expansion in his ribs.
The next exercise we did was an ascending pentatonic scale starting on C3. He started on an "e" vowel and changed to "i" on the fifth note and keep it till the end of the scale. His eh vowel was actually nice and open, but the i vowel sounded very thin and nasal. I asked him if he could try and maintain the same space that he has on his eh vowel and apply it to his "i" vowel. After the second attempt it sounded more open and rich. I stopped and asked him how it felt. He said it felt good but different, like it was harder to do, because he wasn't used to the space and the feeling if that open "i" vowel. He said it felt like his tongue was in a different spot. So I feel he is able to recognize that on his own which is good. We continued in the same" exercise, and on the next scale he went back to the  nasal "i" vowel. So I stopped right away and asked him if that was what he wanted, and he said no. So I gave him basically the same verbal cues as I did before, and he corrected it on the next attempt. He also mentioned again that he said he feels like his tongue gets in the way. I explained that the tongue is a huge muscle and that we have to learn to try and sing without it getting in the way, and I talked About how as  we move up higher in our range we need to create more and more space in the mouth and throat. I sang a few examples of the same scale we were doing but up higher than what he was doing, the fifth note was a g5. I just wanted him to hear what it sounded like and see if he could sympathize with that sound.
So we did an ascending scale up to an E5 on an "eh" vowel and I reminded him of the rise and jaw position, and keeping the tongue in the same position. It sounded really nice and it seemed like it wasn't as hard for him to do as before.