TERM 1- Lesson one: 17/09/14

17th of September 2014

Songs in which I'm going to work on:

• There are worse things I could do (GREASE)

SHEET MUSIC

•  An English teacher (Bye Bye Birdie)

SHEET MUSIC

• Ordinary people (John legend)

 http://www.everyonepiano.com/Music-3000-Ordinary-People-John-Legend.html

• I'm going down (Mary J Blige) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esBJ7KHl2wg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irKQuZWDM10

My weaknesses:

• Timing
• coping with nerves (confidence)
• sustaining the line 

My strengths:

• Good characterisation 
• Pitching 
• "you can sing" Phillip Collins
• The way I perform/deliver 

Vocal exercises and warm ups

1. lip trills
2. sirens 
3. posture alignment 
4. scale (1,1-21 etc.)
5. scales 
6. broken chords to a buzzing sound (zzzzz)
7. scale going down to (ee)

Feedback from today's solo

I performed the song: There Are Worse Things I Could DO (Grease)

• Good characterization 
• Came across confident in your performance
• Good technique and pitching
• sustain the sentence (by this it means not to have so many breaks in a line. let it be fluid)
• Take your time with the piece, enjoy it!

(Do the song with a pianist rather than a backing track)