Day 14... My favorite/most productive day yet

As in the title, Day 14 has been my favorite so far. It has been so productive, considering I have literally had 6 hours of sleep in two days. As soon as I have finished blogging I am off to bed. I am really excited to be going to bed at 1030 tonight rather than barely starting my night at work. Hopefully I can wake up early, go to yoga, and then blog about and add pictures about the 3 charitable deeds from this week that I have been promising for the last three days.... Ok, here we go. DAY 14.


Healthy Meal Number 12

Meal Description – Chicken Caesar Salad with no croutons and vinaigrette dressing

Restaurant or Market – Costco (random but it's really good) and dressing from Whole Foods

Rating – 6/10 the chicken was cold. Like cold, cold. Should have thrown it in the microwave or something.

Daily Practice Session 
(Did this in the morning before I went to work and later had a Private Voice Lesson with Kurt)

Technical Concepts - Followed along with recorded warm up, lip trills, yogi bear and goo goo scales, mixing, chest voice, middle voice, head voice.
Minutes - 25

Repertoire - Sara Bareilles, Gravity
Minutes – 15

Successes – I'm starting to feel more comfortable with head voice and mixing. Breath support is also getting much better.

Areas for improvement – Just in general I don't function well when I don't get enough sleep and don't drink enough water. I really believe it directly effects my voice/singing.

Notes: Ready for new warm up exercises....


Today after work I had my first Private Lesson for this Challenge with Kurt. I felt like I got SO much done in such a short amount of time. Also, the picture is pretty ridiculous, and a true testament to why I will be going to bed as soon as I publish this post. If it wasn't completely necessary to post pictures as proof of our sessions, let's just say that I wouldn't be posting this picture on the internet. ha.


Private Lessons/Coaching Session Number 1

Date/time - January 14th, 2011, 6 p.m.

Instructor - Kurt Robinson
Minutes- 90 minutes

Repertoire - Sara Bareilles, Gravity

Points covered – Technical concepts throughout warmups, lip trills, goo goos, yogi bears, chest voice, middle voice, head voice, mixing. We recorded the entire session that way I could have new material to warm up to. We also went over new scales and breathing/strengthening exercises that I am really excited to start using tomorrow. We spent a lot of time on mixing, and head voice, and I felt like I have made a lot of progress in the two areas especially in just the last two weeks! 


We also spent a good amount of time discussing the show tune issue I have been having with my URTA audition, and started looking at character repertoire that is appropriate for my age and look. Tomorrow I will start playing around with Charlie Brown and Chorus Line. I finally feel like I am on the right track after a few days of wandering around aimlessly with no direction.

Notes: I never really expected to be so stressed out after graduating from college, but I honestly love what I do and sometimes I just need to take a deep breath and remind myself of that.