In today's session, we worked on our posture in order to make the most of our vocals. One of the positions which we practiced was lining our feet with our legs and shoulders. This prepared us well for the session as it is essential to help feel confident and avoid straining our voices.
List of warm ups:
-singing back notes with our hands just below our ribs to observe the movement
-Practiced taking in deeper breaths and therefore increasing the on one note
-Buzzing between two notes
-1-2-3 scales; in order to warm up our vocals and be able to sing high notes
-fricatives
-buzzing to broken chord
Solo songs
I performed my first solo song today with a soundtrack 'Valerie'. My performance I felt was good, as I was singing in the right pitch. The best part of the performance was how I presented my enthusiasm
to the audience.
During the performance I felt like I was enjoying singing and the audience responded in the same way as the clicked their fingers. Although, one of the things which I have to work on, is my posture during the performance as my arms and hands suggested 'nervous'.
In terms of the other solo performances which I saw, I felt that they all sang very well, singing in pitch with the songs. I did on the other hand, also whiteness some of my colleagues who similarly did the same as me, which was maintaining the arms firm, in a fixed position.
Rehearsal:
Practiced group song-
We were divided into groups and were each given different notes to sing for instance in my group, we were singing to the E. As you can see below, this was a useful diagram which my teacher drew in order to help each of the groups to memorise their notes.
Then as a whole class we practised in different sections of the verses of the songs, singing in different notes which gave a different feel to the song. This also allowed us to memorise the song as we were going over the lyrics constantly. In my opinion, I think it was a great choice of song, and the group sound fabulous with the song.
Song learning preparation-
We were given a song my a member of our class "Rather Be" and as a class, our aim was to familiarise with the song and learn the lyrics. First of all, we listened to a video of the song to have a basic overview of the melody. The second time we heard the song, as a group we would accompany the video by singing the lyrics.
I felt we worked essentially well as a group as we all took into consideration, people who didn't know the song. Therefore, at each verse we would stop to repeat after the lyrics. At the end, the group came into a circle and sang without a backing voice which showed that everyone was feeling comfortable with the song.
What went well
-Everyone was getting involved which showed a bond between the group
-Others where considerate of those who didn't know the song
-Played the song repeatedly in order to familiarise
-Helped each other when one wasn't sure about how the melody went
What can be improved
-working slightly faster
-begin to add different harmonies
