Checklist!!! With 3 lessons left before our concert - today for our lesson we continued our performance prep to make sure we feel more and more ready to go! Today we started our checklist! With each song that we will be performing, we have specific things we need to remember. Today's objective was to get through as many songs as we could - 1 song at a time, checking off our placement, performance, microphone technique, stage presence, intros, and exits.
Because I won't be reminding the students what to do, correct, and adjust in real time - we mapped out our checklist for each song BEFORE we sang each song - and then I sat down and didn't say anything while they were performing the songs. We would then evaluate at the end - say which boxes we could check off. If they checked off every single box - we would move on to the next song. If they missed a few boxes, we would circle them, and perform the song again - as many times as it took to pass off all of the boxes and feel 100% ready to go on that particular song! For each area (performance, placement, microphone technique, smiling, walking on and off), we would map out "what would be a win" with each song - or what would need to happen in every area for us to feel like we did the very best possible. In order to check the box off, we had to do all of the things in each category we had decided on before hand. Our checklists looked like this: Lost Boy Performance: Constant arm movement, big gestures. "quarter back shuffle" 2 times each side (opening up the stage) Smile!!
Placement: Style heavy - Wide vowels, change the pronunciation of our words to add that "ah" sound, push it forward Microphone technique: Aiming the directional microphone at our mouth and following our mouth with the mic, making sure the audience can hear us the whole time. Mic drops! - dropping the microphone away from our mouth when we're not singing to show control and confidence.
Smiling!! Walk on: Walk on and set in our confident performance stance - with our feet shoulder width apart, feet facing forward, and stretching really tall with our posture. Love Story Performance: Constant arm movement, rotating through our mic technique arms - big gestures. Moving even more - because our song is fast. "quarter back shuffle" - 3 each way Placement: Pop box (talked out, words short, squeaky placement) Smile! Microphone technique: Aiming the directional microphone at our mouth and following our mouth with the mic, making sure the audience can hear us the whole time. Mic drops!
Smiling!! Walk on: Walk on and set in our confident performance stance - with our feet shoulder width apart, feet facing forward, and stretching really tall with our posture.
When we were young: Performance: Constant arm movement, big gestures. Rotating through our microphone stand gestures. Keeping our legs straight and our posture tall. Smile!!
Placement: Style ballad - big wide triangle placement: making our sound nice and big, adding "ah" to the middle of our words, aiming our words forward, widening our verses. Microphone technique: Aiming the directional microphone at our mouth and following our mouth with the mic, making sure the audience can hear us the whole time. Making sure to pull the microphone stand away from our mouth when we're not singing. Smiling!! Walk on: Walk on and set in our confident performance stance - with our feet shoulder width apart, feet facing forward, and stretching really tall with our posture. Lily did so awesome!!!
Here are our videos from today! At the end of each video you will see us checking off our lists!