Thursday 1st December
For the first part of the lesson we looked at learning the lyrics to the song ‘We are family’. We briefly looked at this song last week but we mostly concentrated on getting the tune right. Therefore this week we were familiar with the tune so we could now put the lyrics to this. Once we had sung through this a few times, we moved on to look at ‘Africa’.
We are all now very familiar with ‘Africa’ so we sang this through once just to check that everyone knew the lyrics. Once we had sung this through once, we considered changing the key at which the song was being played in. This is because me and another member of the class, Danielle were really struggling to hit the notes in the verses. The notes in the verses are quite low meaning that we were right at the bottom of our ranges. Originally the song is played in the key of A so we decided to move up a key to D. This made it easier to sing the verses and parts of the song now sounded much nicer than they did before. However, we were now unable to reach the high notes when singing the harmonies. This meant that we dropped back down to the key of A however, me and Danielle were able to reach all of the notes if we were to sing an octave higher. We all decided that me and Danielle would sing an octave higher whilst everyone else would sing the original tune. This worked well and sounded really nice as we now had some harmonies.
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