Singing

Week 1

In the first week of singing we was introduced into the La, La, La, song as well BPM which we sat in a circle with our shoes playing a simple rhythm to a BPM on the board whilst repeating the same lyrics after one another.

Week 2
Today we learned about the Larynx and how the important parts about it are used as if it’s a tool for us to use when it comes to singing as we’re an instrument, we had a homework assignment to build the Larynx as well to bring it in once done by using the template below

Week 3
Today I brought in my Larynx after building it which ended up looking alright after positioning it, we also helps with breathing as well has a mechanism to stop us from choking, as soon as we pick up something that seems heavy our breath would strain making it seem very difficult

Week 4

In today’s session we learned about the true and false vocal folds as these both play different parts in our singing as we also did a song with Barbra, of she died, she did, she died of a broken rib she did, I found this song to be rather odd which then we got split into groups as we was given separate queues where our groups would say a certain bit.
I found this very odd to perform as I didn’t see the point of why we was singing this in the beginning.

Week 5
In today’s lesson we started off with another warm up as we learned about a warm up for where we could roll our tongue around our front of the teeth, we also learned about the tongue as well the Roots, doorsome, blade and the tip, I found this session to be slightly disturbing as we had to watch a video of an actual inside of the folds.

Week 6

In the sixth week we started off with more warm ups such as the tongue rolling as well another recap session of what we’ve done before which we then moved onto doing Standby me, we was split into groups which some of us was soprano, tenor and outto’s which we all started off with queues of when we will start off and not.

The tongue warm up gave me an uncomfortable ache in my mouth however was quite helpful as it helped with waking up my vocals as well facial area.

Week 7

In this week we was informed of selecting a song that we will have to perform in a couple of weeks which then we went straight into listening some of our pears perform their songs which then I moved straight onto doing a group song again, we then started to do another song with Barbra in a circle

Week 8

In the eighth week we started off with doing another group singing session which then we went straight onto listening to more of our classmates perform the selected songs which then we moved onto talking about the Aspirate which is breath as well the Smooth and Glottal which is closing of the word.

I wasn’t very keen on doing the warm up song today as I wasn’t able to hit certain notes, I would like to improve on my pitch as well use of tone levels.

Week 9

In today’s session we started to talk about the offsets and the onsets as we started to discuss about what singers use either of this during or before they start singing as if they use their breath before saying any singing notes or lyrics which then we moved onto having a couple of more pears who did singing performances before the ending of the lesson after doing another small song with Barbra.

I was able to challenge myself from the last target today however I wasn’t able to hit really high notes but I was able to go out from my normal tone or deeper tone as I tried to go slightly higher.

Week 10
In today’s session after a continuous rehearsal at home of working on my vocals as well lyrics for my song which I chose Princess and the frog “I’ve got friends on the other side”, I chose to perform this song because of how it matches my tone of voice as well that it’s a slow beat based song which picks up with a steady rhythm which I find quite enjoyable and matched to my interest, after watching previous students of singing I went up to perform my song which I got feedback expressing that I need to learn the lyrics by coming off script as well that I need to maintain my confidence more better

My confidence level was quite low for when I was performing as I could feel a tremble in my lyrics as I was doing my performance and I would like to improve on this by next time I have to perform without the score sheet on piano as well being able to stand still in front of everyone without feeling uncomfortable.

Week 11
We started to learn about the song called “Do you hear what I hear?” I found this song to be quite complex in the beginning after being set into separate groups Tenos as I was struggling to read the score sheet until I realised that it jumps down by lines quite massively, I also found it difficult to keep up with the harmony parts as I would slightly be out of pitch.

Week 12
We started to get into the circle straight away to do another quick full rehearsal of the last lines on the score sheet for which then had someone in our group to do a recording of the male’s harmony so we would be able to practice it in our spare time, as we finished the lesson I went home to do some rehearsals, I thought that I could’ve done my queuing better as sometimes I would sing a bit too early or too short.