Monday 22nd
January
Today
I was working on my songs ready for the singing performance.
To
start the session, I carried out a full vocal warmup which included warming up
all the muscles in the body with some stretches and shakes, the intercostal
diaphragmatic breathing exercise, abdominal press, long note on ‘ha’, scales,
harmonic minors and arpeggios. When carrying out the abdominal press exercise,
my lecturer commented on how well I am carrying out this exercise and how much
I have improved since I have learnt the exercise. I used to really struggle with
this exercise but the more I have practiced it, the better I have become at it.
For
the main part of the lesson I was practicing through both of my solo pieces. I
am now pretty secure with the lyrics for ‘Mr Blue Sky’ so we were just working
on adding a small bit into the song which we had forgotten about. Also, at the
end of the song there is a high choral piece which I am trying out. After
trying it out a few times, I came to the conclusion that I was unable to hit
the highest note. Therefore, I am just staying silent on this part and then
joining in with the next stage of this piece of music. When we tried this all
the way through, it sounded good and worked really well so we decided to keep
it in. We then moved on to ‘In The Summertime’. I am still in the process of
learning the lyrics for this song because I have written my own. I will
continue to work on these lyrics especially in the verses later on in the song
because there are some verses with some tricky lines.
For
the last part of the lesson we had a quick look at ‘The Sweet Escape’ which
will be the group song. We haven’t really practiced this yet so we just had a
quick look at the words today. My homework is to listen to this song and start
to learn the lyrics so that we can start to work on it sometime soon.
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