Today we continued our work on our vocal agility - or ability to sing quickly and keep up with the music! Tag has a couple phrases in this new song of ours that are super fast. We worked hard today on separating the phrases and then the individual words in his brain so that he can think them quickly, say them quickly, and sing them quickly ("I can take a hint, gotta face the facts - you're my only friend Abu"). We first worked on this by adding something to help Tag further separate the phrases - by having Tag high five my hands at the beginning of each line. We started slow - making sure he was saying all the lyrics, and slowly sped up until Tag felt comfortable going the speed required by the song! We want him to be as comfortable as possible with these quick phrases so that he doesn't worry about them during our performance. He did great!
Audience prep
Today we also worked on performing our songs nice and big in front of an audience! When Tag concentrates hard or gets nervous- sometimes he makes his performance smaller. We are working on (and will continue to work on) making sure that Tag gets comfortable performing in front of people when he's nervous so that it isn't a big deal if he gets nervous at our performance - because he knows how to sing when he's nervous already!