[Guest Teacher]

For the second part of her issue, I reckon if you make an exercise of transitioning between the various vowel sounds somewhere near the top of chest voice (e.g. String all the vowels together on a B or somewhere around there) to get an awareness of the mechanics involved, then slowly go up by semitones until she flips to head then keep going higher and higher. Once the mechanics of the changing mouth shape, tongue placement, etc are sunk in hopefully that will take away that unwanted op sound. Then take that into a song that requires her to go to head voice and see if it helps

[Guest Teacher]

I prefer getting students to learn the control of the tongue by exercising it (basic level stick the tongue out, the direct it up, down, left, right and repeat, then moving on to something like pushing the tongue into the bottom teeth then pushing up and out, then down and back). That way the student learns to control the tongue to lift when they want/need to and retract when they want/need to. I much prefer a slightly raised tongue on an ‘ee’ sound for example

[Guest Teacher]

Is it just a case of needing to work on getting a quick, expansive breath? In which case, I normally get people to call out a rather long sentence several times: “Hey you over there, how are you doing today? I’m fine thank you very much, how’s your *insert as many relations as you can with the rest of the breath*” to show the student that the body knows how to do it already and start to develop a control over it. Then take it into the song by calling out the lyrics instead of the sentence then add the melody back in when that’s comfortable.

[Guest Teacher]

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[Guest Teacher]

Hi, I am a vocal coach, currently in tier 4, so all my teaching is through ZOOM.US. I use a combination of backing tracks that I play and record myself; Utube backing tracks and then sometimes ask the student to record themselves on ZOOM to then send their rehearsed work to me I also record the session and send the student the recorded lesson…with my comments and practice notes.