This week's homework is "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" challenge 🌈 Your assignment is to sing the first 30–45 seconds and post it in the comments below. I'm not looking for perfection. I'm listening for: 🎶 Breath support 🎶 Sustained notes 🎶 Smooth transitions 🎶 Dynamics 🎶 Storytelling You don't have to sing it exactly the way I do. Feel free to make it your own! I've included video examples in a comfortable key for both the ladies and the gentlemen. 😊 Remember: quality over volume. I'd rather hear ease and freedom than power. Have fun with it! I can't wait to hear what you do with it. 🎤🌈 Song Lyrics: ⬇️ 🎶 Somewhere over the rainbow Way up high.."🎶 There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby.."🎶

Tonight was INCREDIBLE and I am so proud of every single one of you for showing up and putting in the work. Now let's keep the momentum going.✨ Your homework this week: Before you record the song you worked on tonight, warm up properly: Lip trills for 2 minutes Belly breath hiss: inhale 4, hold 4, hiss for 8 (3 rounds) Meow slides up and down your range' Then record yourself singing one full verse and chorus and/or bridge of the song you worked on tonight. Don't overthink it — just go for it. Here's what I'm listening for: 🎤 Breath support — Picture that candle flame right in front of your face. Your breath should make it flicker — not blow it out. Steady and controlled the entire time you're singing. I want to hear that steadiness in your tone not breathiness or strain. 🎤 Mix voice — Are you flipping into falsetto on those higher notes or are you finding that connected blend we worked on? If you feel your throat gripping or squeezing — stop. Do a gentle yawn first. Feel that open space in the back of your throat? THAT is where your mixed notes need to live. Now try again from that place. 🎤 Overall ease — Does it sound like you're working hard or does it sound like you're singing? There's a difference and I will absolutely hear it. ⚠️Submit your recording right here in this thread by or before Thursday at 3pm. Audio only is perfectly fine.⚠️ I cannot wait to hear 🙌🏽