Singing

16th jan - 31st jan
1.

In singing today we had our first lesson as our new class.

we started out with doing warm up, to warm up our vocal cords and diaphragm, by doing breathing techniques as well as singing vowels and words. It is important for us to do this as it stops us from causing injury to our throats, vocal cords and diaphragm, as well as warming up before we start to sing.

In todays lesson we went over the group song for when we go to the nursing home next month. Today was the first time we did this in our new class, and considering we have never sung together in this way before, we got into the two groups and harmonised the lyrics efficiently and quickly, working well together, aside form a few minor "hiccups"

2.

after practising the song we where put into our smaller groups where we are going to be doing another song, I am put in a group with only members of the class whom i worked with before, and have never sung infront of before so i will find it a challenge. We have been set the task of finding an appropriate song to sing in this group, to fit in with the time period we have been given - between the 1920's and 1950's.

Also we have been given the opportunity to do solo or duet songs, which i may strive to do.

3.
over the last two lessons we have been working on our group songs, my group have desided to perform "cant help falling in love" Elvis Presley. we have been learning the lyrics and aplying what we have learned in the lessons in the past, to addapt the song to our singing types. we have been learning the song and practicing it. also in lesson we have been doing vocal warm ups to prepare us for what we have to do. we have taken what we have been taught and furthered it to help us practice. ive found that i strugle with the dynamics of the song that my group has chosn as i strugle with the timing of certain parts of the song and the diffrence between mine and the other peoples vocal tones, but i am slowly getting it.