Chloe told us on the 8th January we will be doing a singing show on the 8th May for our singing unit. Although through needing to rehearse children's theatre, get context out the way, and rehearse with second years...we would only have eight lessons altogether.
She gave us a few group songs to practice with but they was not ideas she had completely settled on. She came up with 'School Song' from Matilda, which was a very weird but clever song, had weird timings and speed but was very fun and interesting and I enjoyed it. She also gave us the song 'he lives in you' from the Lion King, I personally really enjoyed this song and think the majority of the class did.
She also explained that to be marked for this unit there is many things we have to do like learn techniques and master our breathing and holding notes and doing tongue twisters. We have to do certain things when being marked on a test which can be very harsh on marking and it can be very hard to get a good grade unless you are perfect pretty much. She also said everyone needs to sing a solo and that can stretch from two sentences in a song to a whole song by themselves. I am quite happy to sing a whole song alone but also do not mind taking part in duets or groups if need be.
At the moment I am losing my voice and it is hard to practice a song that I could settle on to choose for the show when I am not even sure I can pull it off when I am losing my voice. I focused on 'All of me' , by John Legend in female key, 'Mad World', Adam Lambert's cover in female key, a song from Billy Elliot the musical called 'The Letter' which usually requires three people. And I looked over a song I used to sing called 'tell me on a Sunday' from Song and Dance. I have not chosen which one to do as I do not know which one I can sing best as I am losing my voice at the moment so I am not able to see which one is best for me.
On 15th January, Chloe had us for two hours. She said too make a singing show we need 18 songs from us otherwise we cannot do it and at a push 16 songs. I have chosen to do a solo but I have not decided which one as I still do not have much of a singing voice and I'm still not sure which one I will be able to pull off best as I will be getting marked on this.
In the warm up we did usual vocal warm up's such as humming and going higher and lower in notes and so on. She then gave us a booklet and told us to answer a questionnaire very honestly about what we can/can't/struggle to do in singing. I said my three main weaknesses were range, using an accent, and using facial expressions. She also said we need to create our own vocal warm up to show her by the end of the year.
She then gave us two new group songs and got rid of the Lion Kings one 'he lives in you'. We sung through 'gone in the morning' by Newton Faulkner, and 'keep your head up' by Andy Grammer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LMVJ2xd1g8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdfl51Vr7qE
I did enjoy these songs and I think everyone else did as well.
Chloe advises us too drink loads of water to keep us hydrated, and to do five minutes every day of warming up our vocals and we will notice a difference in our voices in a few weeks possibly.
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