Singing Lesson one

In this lesson we went through what we were going to be doing in the lesson. We had a camera recording us all doing the warm ups. We had done the normal warm up to warm up our vocal cords so that when we sing it wont damage it. The warm ups help the statainability, breathing control and diction. We learnt a new warm up where we sang "Hallijuha' and  'Ava Maria', this helps statainability, diction and hitting a high note quickly from a lower note. In this lesson we started to learn the songs and just went through learning each song and just getting the lyrics and tones right.

My strongest point was being able to ring the right tune and lyrics back and learning it quickly.
My weakness was my focus, i could have focused better.

In this lesson, we did the same warm ups again but this time we had 4 people in the group demonstrate each warm up while being recorded. After each demonstration as a group we all did the warm ups. Once all these warm ups were done they had 2 demonstrate 'AEIOU' which helps with diction and had the other 2 demonstrate 'LAs' which also helps with diction and the different notes. As a group we had 2 songs as a group, 1 girls group song and one boys, some duets and solos. We were also assigned a song to choregraph, me, Leona, Laura and Becca were given the song sway.

The songs we sang were: 1. Sway 2. It don't mean a thing (ain't got that swing) 3. Wouldn't it be lovely 4. Got you under my skin 5. Can't help loving that man of mine 6. Sunny side of the street 7. Somewhere 8. We'll meet again 9. Singing in the rain. 

We went through learning some songs then we went in to the acting studio to learn a dance for it dont mean a thing. Arnold was assigned to choregraph for this song. In this lesson we learn the movement to the first half of the song.
My strength for this lesson was i stayed focused and so i picked up the choregraphy quickly.
My target for next lesson was to focus on choregraphing for the song sway.
In our next lesson we did we did our vocal warm up and then we went in to our groups to either rehearse the song or to choregraph. Choregraphing sway was not easy but listening to the song and just doing a movement we got there.

Teaching everyone sway was hard because they were not listening and it was really hard to make them and help them learn movement to the song.

Me and Shanice were assigned a duet, we sang Singing in the rain. At first we were assigned 'What a difference a day made' we both listened to the song and tried our hardest to get use to the song but we couldnt get the feel for the song. We then changed to song to singing in the rain and it was really enjoyable it was fun and low tone and there wassnt much movement needed. We listened to the song and decided i would sing the first half of the song then shanice would sing then we both sang the whole song together. We had to get abit of choregraph to the song so we decided to use unbrellas and walked around. We decided not to do much movement so that it wouldnt take the focus away from the singing.

It was performance day and we were all excited. Singing as a group was easy, i felt supported by everyone so that gave me the confidence to sing them. When it came up to me and Shanice singing i was terrified but i had to think confident becuase it was my only chance. In this performance compared to the performance in the rehearsals. I was more confident because i knew the lyrics and the tune, because of my confidence my singing was projected out.
Singing my solo verse in sway went okay i sang it better in rehearsals then the show. My statainability went down i think because i didnt try hard enough in my warm up.

Overall every rehearsal my voice and confidence imporved everytime, the warm ups helped my voice and it was my last chance to get it right so i threw in all my confidence.