This lesson was our second lesson of our first unit, which is Musical Theatre. Today I had to perform the song JCB by Nizlopi, If you have not heard the song here it is:
This was set the previous lesson, and i had to perform the song to the whole class with 2 others . To my surprise i wasn't very nervous when I had to sing, i think this was due to the fact that i had two people that were singing with me. It gave me more confidence as i thought that if i messed up they would be there to carry on. This is something i need to work on in the future as it will make me a better performer. A good performer always has confidence which gives them good stage presence. This is something i aspire to have. After performing the song, we was then given a whole class exercise which was to learn and perform a musical song of choice in 20 minutes. We picked summer nights from Grease as most people knew the song and if not knew parts of it. There was an imbalance of Girls to boys so I of course joined the girls side. Alice, a girl in my class, is very experienced in Musical Theatre and knew the song of by heart so she directed the song. We all worked well in a team and it paid off as the final result could have been West end worthy. Okay maybe that was a little far fetched but we was very good considering most of us are new to Musical Theatre.
To finish of the lesson we completed an array of vocal warm ups such as Tai Chi. This method of Tai Chi allowed us to open up our lungs more. Our tutor told us to keep doing these warm-ups in order get our lungs used to taking in more air so we would be able to control our breathing more. Another warm up we completed was facial exercise, these will ensure us that when we sing in future our muscles will be relaxed in order for ease of singing and not tense so we strain our voice We was also introduced to the two voices in singing head voice and chest voice.
For our next lesson I need to make sure I keep up with the vocal exercises to improve my voice and research the two resonances. Head and Chest.
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