At my lesson this week we talked a lot about the soft palate and how it changes shape slightly for each vowel. We first explored the shape of an ee, aye, then ah moving though all the vowels on one note. It was really interesting because I could feel the difference of the vowels in my soft palate. Ee feels tall and narrow, Aye feels like it widens the space and pulls each side of the narrow soft palate towards each ear, and Ah is supposed to feel like a “V” (kind of like a fountain spewing water out of the top of my head). Then we worked almost the rest of the time on using the soft palate to create really resonant vowels.
What we did for almost the rest of the lesson was sing my whole song on an ee vowel keeping my sound focused on my hard palate areas. I could feel my sound resonating throughout my whole head consistently louder and more focused than I have ever experienced. The focus of my sound was created by the wonderful vowel ee (my favorite vowel!) and my aim as well as keep the soft palate lifted (to create the space for my air to resonate). Once I locked into that place in my song “Un Moto Di Gioia”, I was able to sing it on words with greater resonance. It was pretty amazing. Later that day I was experimenting more with placement using the feeling of the bright piercing sound I was able to create. Because of the greater efficiency of the sound and the placement and space I had, I was able to create the sound almost effortlessly even on the higher notes (which had previously been causing me grief). So happy about this lesson!
The only thing was, in my lesson I think I pushed too hard looking for that focused and loud sound and my voice was really tired afterward and I had to take a break for a long time. I think that could be solved by looking for that same resonance and space but not necessarily looking for volume. I also would like to try this with vibrato since I was doing it in my lesson with a straight tone.
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