Thursday 24th November
In today’s lecture we were focusing on preparation for the singing performance towards the end of the year.
We started the lecture with a singing warmup. This started with our intercostal diaphragmatic exercise. Instead of breathing out for 12, we tried breathing out for 16 counts. I found this quite difficult because although it was only an extra 4 counts that we were breathing out for, it was much harder but hopefully over time this will improve. We then moved from the breathing exercise onto a singing warmup when we were accompanied by our lecturer, Cara on the piano. We sang through a few major scales and a few other gentle exercises.
For the rest of the lesson we were focusing on learning the lyrics to a song that we will be performing as a group. The song that we all agreed to sing is ‘We are family’ by Sister Sledge. We thought that this was a good song to sing as it includes some good harmonies that we can try out. For most of the lesson we were concentrating on learning the words and putting them to the tune. However, for a small portion of the lesson we did look at the other group song that we have been learning. This song is called ‘Africa’ and is by Toto. We have been practicing this song for a few weeks now so everyone in the group roughly knows the words although we are not sure on the lyrics towards the end of the song. So far we have looked at the parts of which everyone is singing up until the first chorus.
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