Vocal Lessons 2+3

Thus far I've had a total of three voice lessons and one evaluation, and I'm scheduled to have three more before the end of August. After that, I'll be taking off the month of September since I'll be in Europe for most of it, and then will most-likely resume in October. My first two lessons (of which I have only thus far written on the first) were essentially introductory lessons, the first going over basic vocal anatomy and breathing exercises and the second tackling warm-up and cool-down routines.

But it wasn't until my third lesson that I started realizing how important all this is, as it was the first lesson where I was really asked to sing...see, Dionne thinks it's important for me to work on opening my mouth more, but I quickly discovered that keeping it largely closed has been my subconscious method for air management all these years, leaving me out of breath when singing with my mouth wide open.

Hence, I need to start buckling down on my breathing exercises if I am to take this to the next level. It was just that over the first few weeks the exercises seemed a little bit tedious and somewhat pointless, but now I'm starting to get it. I just need to actually force myself to work on this stuff every day, and hopefully I'll see some progress sooner than later...