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: One jump ahead: Performance: Smile!!! Big Movement
Placement: Talk it out Separate our words Throw words at the window 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.
Smiling!! Walk on: Walk on confidently and smile!!
I just can't wait to be king Performance: Smile! Big movement! Placement: Talk it out hit the window with our words Separate our words 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. "UP!"
Smiling!! Walk on: Walk on confidently and smile!! Puppet!: Make sure we're working our puppet!
Summer: Performance: Big movement! Keep moving! Watch out for the microphone cord when you spin! Smile!!
Placement: Smile! Talk it out Throw our words at the window Separate our words! 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. "UP!"
Smiling!! Walk on: Walk on confidently and smile!!! Tag did SO awesome today!!!! We will continue to pass our songs off with our checklist so that he feels 100% ready to go by our group practices and by our performance!!! I'm so excited for you to see him in action!!!
Here are our videos from today!
At the end of our videos - you will see Tag checking all of our things off!
One Jump Ahead:
Just Can't Wait to be king:
Summer:
Wow Tag!! You did SOOO great today!!! So proud of you!! See you soon!!