Thursday 6th October
Today we started the lecture with a singing warmup in preparation for practicing the song that we will be recording in the studio next week. The warmup consisted of many different exercises that got our voices nice and warm so they were prepared to sing. Firstly, we carried out the intercostal diaphragmatic exercise which helps improve lung capacity so we can hold notes on for longer during songs. Once we had finished the breathing exercise, we moved over to the piano where our lecturer, Cara would accompany us whilst we did some short exercises. We firstly carried out some major scales gong up the scale and then coming back down. We repeated this a few times on different notes. We then moved onto arpeggios. As we sang the arpeggios, we sang “I am on top of the world”. We sang this through several times just to make sure that our voices were warm. The last singing exercise that we did is called “va va vi vi”. This exercise uses a range of notes which warms up the throat nicely.
Then we moved onto the main part of the lesson. As the recording of the song is in a week, we needed to start perfecting the song and make sure that we were singing the right notes at the right time. Luckily the people who were unsure of the lyrics picked them up quickly so we did not have to worry about learning the lyrics during the sessions as they had done this in their own time. I already knew the song but went over the lyrics in my spear time just to make sure that they were correct. I was selected to sing the lower part for most of the song but then in some places, such as the chorus, I was able to sing the middle harmony.
At the end of the session, our lecturer gave us some feedback on our singing throughout the session. The feedback which she gave me was that I was singing louder than last week so she was able to hear me a bit clearer, however my singing could still be louder. Overall, she said that it sounded very good and all of the harmonies worked well.
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