Matilda- Monday 20th February 2017

Today was our music lesson. Today was our first lesson back after the half term so we all knew we needed to work really hard as it isn't long until the performance. We did a long and thorough warm up as we all hadn't sung properly in over a week so we knew we need a longer warm up.  Over the half term, personally i had done some warm ups throughout the week to make sure that i didn't loose any technique and to make sure that i could still hold my diaphragm. I also had sung through the song a couple of times so ensure that i didn't forget it. We started warming up by warming some of a muscles up such as moving our head from left to right to warm that up. Also, we did circles with our ankles to make sure they were warm so we could have a good stance and good posture. We than began warming our voices up. Again, we did all the normal warm ups to make sure that our voices were warmed up correctly. We focused on our vocal range to make sure we was all using our vocal range to the best of our ability. We then focused on our diaphragm to ensure we was using that correctly. We done this by doing short staccato rhythms. We also worked on our diction because diction is very important in School Song because some verses are fast so we need to be able to sing them in tune and to make sure that audience can understand what we are saying. 

This lesson, my group knew we needed to work on some verses which we always speed up on and also some tuning. We sang through the song with the backing track and we stopped whenever we was singing a section to fast so we could go over it and work out what the timing was and to make sure we was all in time with each other. After going through the song a couple of times like this we managed to get the timing correct. We then worked on the section where we always speed up, this is the verse which begins "You listen hear my dear". We sang through it without the baking track and with someone clapping the timing so we could sing along to that beat. We all felt as though this helped us because we then was able to sing it with the backing track and without singing to fast. We also had all realised that we would need to project more whilst we was singing because we would be performing in a different room to which we rehearse in and the other room (the stage) is bigger which means we need to project more. This means opening a mouths more to make sure that we could singing as loudly as possible without shouting and so we all stayed in tune.

My target from before half term was to work on some tuning throughout the song and some timing whilst singing. I feel as though i have been able to work on this a lot.
My target for next lesson is to work on costumes and to figure out what works and what we all should wear.