Singing Unit: The show & Evaluation

In all I think the show went really well and everyone done fantastic and the best that they could. It was a shame that sometimes the microphones wouldn't work but I think we all managed through it really well. I think it was a long show but it doesn't feel like it when you are actually in it. I got told by some audience members afterwards that they really enjoyed it which was very nice to hear as it was a relief if you felt like you had done bad and then have that reassurance.

I felt like I could have pushed myself more, I was extremely nervous in mine and Dean's duet as it was with a piano and I felt like I couldn't sing the song very well but I tried as much as I could. I had the pressure of people hearing me sing that haven't before so I was worried I would sound bad but I still continued, I think I needed to work on my breathing a lot in that song. In my solo I forgot that I needed to use chest voice for most of the song and fell into the trap of singing in head voice but I tried to remember in important places that really needed the chest voice such as when I belt. My class improved so much on the group songs, we got so much more into it as we had an audience with fresh pairs of eyes watching us, and we had a lot of fun with it. Also I think the school song was still way to quick but we always had that issue, we also had the struggle with the four people changing the alphabet letters behind us as they hadn't got much practice doing it before.

We got given log books to use while we did the process of the singing unit:

It then asked what my weaknesses were and to list the three from the sheets before:

For my first weakness I said my 'range', to improve this weakness I said I was going to warm up my voice more often to help with low singing especially and try doing lower songs just to get used to singing lower. For my second weakness I said 'using an accent' and to improve this I was going too try practising accents more and singing with them so I had a load of different accents I could use. For my third weakness I said 'using expression', I have always struggled with this as I focus way to much on the singing and not show what the meaning of the song is, so to improve this I said I would think about the lyrics and what my face would do or how I would react when I head/read the words.

So my first target setting was that my short term goal would be:

- changing facial expressions while singing

- knowing the meaning of the song so I can sing it with meaning

- work on projection

This is something I could probably achieve in around 4-6 weeks.

Then my long term goal would be:

- accents being improved

- be able to sing lower key

- head voice/chest voice to be improved

This is something that would be achieved over a longer period of time.

This is my first self evaluation from the 29th January: