Mah-mah, nay-yay, Mah-yah Today in our vocalization exercises I told Abby she could do whatever actions she wanted for our last exercise as long as she maintained our placement and sang our warm ups perfectly! She ran around the room.. did cartwheels.. laid on the floor.. stood on the couch.. and sang our last warm up perfectly! It was awesome.
We worked on:
1. Pop Box/ Keeping it forward
2. Maintaining our placement
Pop Box/ Keeping it forward
Because we only have 4 lessons left until our Fall concert we are deep in our performance prep mode and getting ready to rock! Today we started our song checklist - going through every aspect of one song at a time until we feel like all of our questions are answered, all of our reminders set, and the song is 100% ready to go - before moving on to our next song.
Today we worked on "You belong with me" - our fast - pop box song! In this song we need to remember to keep our words short, squeaky, and talked so that we can maneuver them the way we need to at the quick speed the song calls for! We worked hard on making sure that Abby felt her forward placement during her song, that she smiled throughout her whole song, and that she kept moving for her entire performance. It was awesome!
Maintaining our placement
We also worked on making sure once we got to our placement correctly, that we maintained the correct placement as we focused on other aspects of our performance - like microphone technique, performance technique, audience prep and stage technique.