LaeKin Burgess Lesson Summary 3/31

This week Brianna really wanted me to show her how I warm myself up. I started with a few primal sounds then went to lip buzzes on 5 note scales. There is a specific feeling of release I look for and I don't stop the lip buzzes until I find it. Once I found it, I turned the lip buzz to a [thi] on a 5 note scale. I try to match the release in the [thi] to the lip buzz and if I can't find it then I go back to the lip buzz and so forth until I can maintain the release. On this particular occasion I wasn't finding release consistently. Brianna let me go on for a while and I went to the same types of exercise on full octaves for a while. Finally Brianna stopped me and critiqued my warm up. She was pretty happy with everything but I was trying to stand up while I warmed up and she suggested I sit down so I could find release in my back. After I did this it seemed like everything was fixed. I was able to find consistent release and fuller sound. It worked like magic. My goal this week: find a way to keep my back released while standing up.