This week:
We vocalized on:
Mah-mah, Nay-yay, mm-ah, everybody's favorite!
We worked on:
1. Performance prep!
Performance prep!
Today was all about performance prep! We started our lesson with an extra long warm up - making sure that our vocal cords were loose and relaxed, so that we felt confident about our vocals (warming up more than once a week does great things for our vocal cords as well, helping extend our range quicker. This will help with our high notes even more!).
We then went over our transitions - making sure that we are ready to go from walking on stage to walking off!
We then went through each of our songs and checked the editing, karaoke tracks and lyrics - making adjustments at places that were confusing, or needed to be longer or shorter.
We edited a few of Ella's songs (Lay me down, Crumbling), cutting out part of Lay me down to make it easier for Ella to sing, and making the transitions in Crumbling a little bit smoother!
We then ran our songs all the way through 3 times each - going through our Vocal and Performance checklists - making sure that we were doing everything we needed to do in order to make our performance a 10!
Today we also worked on making sure that our performance was at least 2 steps bigger than we want it in our performance - to make sure that when we add a secondary focus (the audience), that our performance remains big!!
We worked a lot on our performance of our fast songs - making sure to get some rhythmic movement in to match the song. Ella felt much better after going through all of our songs and mapping out our performance even a little bit more!
We then wrote our student spotlight for our program -
we are taking Ella's picture for our program on Wednesday!
Labels: Ella H.