I see no one has responded yet, so I will add my two cents. I've taken lessons recently, and I will share how my coach did it.

First and foremost, the instructor had me go through some exercises to determine my natural range. She also did some exercises to determine where my vocal breaks were. The purpose was for targeting those breaks and increasing my range, but thats putting the cart before the horse.

She then went into breathing and breath support. Showing me how to breath "from the stomach" and how it should feel. She started by having me sit leaning over, such that my chest is resting on my knees. Apparently this removes some variables to breathing right. She then had me focus on how it felt when I did it right. Then she had me practice capturing that feeling while sitting, and then while standing.

Then she taught me some vocal warm-up and recovery techniques, such as yawn sighs (vocal drops) and lip and tongue trills, as well as exercises to relax the jaw and neck muscles.

Thats about as far as we got. What I'm curious about though is why you don't just use the progression from Jaime's book to help you. It seems to follow the same progression that my teacher used, and seems to be a logical progression.

Regards,
-Dave

I do have Jaime's book actually. for disclosure purposes, i'm not planning to teach my friends jaime's methods like it's mine. im just sharing, but my 'sharing' is messy and not structured.
i gladly push them towards having lessons with Jaime, better teacher n instructions. being with me will just maybe mess their vocals even more.

the plan that i'm lookin for is how to structure a lesson within an hour.
is it just breathing > warm ups > scales > song > pointers/reminders > done.

some super basic stuffs cuz my friends donno hell about vocals..

n thx so much for replying dave. appreciate it

Hi Aliz,

Lip Bubbles (which the most likely won;t be able to do)
Correct Breathing
Lip Bubbles(which they should be able to do after learning to breath correctly)

Personally, My suggestion would be teach them physical exercises to strengthen their tongues and release tension in their neck/throat region.

Then work on some sliding scale work, Personally I would focus on the C3 to C5 Region, then you can begin working "out" from there to expand their range in both directions.
The key is you have to focus that they need to relax, and they need to train daily and SING daily as well. You can train all you want, but if you don't actually sing, the training is for nothing.

That's my take on it.

Tim