Today we had to perform the JCB song on our pairs - since were we given hardly much time to work on this with our partners, and the fact I am terrible with learning lyrics (something I definitely need to work on), me and Henri were quite underprepared and as a result of this we both felt very stupid when doing it, however vocally we were both in time with the song and in tune. Once we had done this, we then as a classed rehearsed the song 'Summer lovin'' from the contemporary musical 'Grease' and we lead by Alice who knows the song inside out so we were all relying on her since none of us really knew that well. Once we got the hang of the backing vocals, and the timings of the song we weren't too bad. We were told that the guys are like a gang and very eager to know about the love lives of one another. I played Danny so I had to lead the T-birds in this song, I did this by standing in the front middle of the guys without blocking the view of the others, and I was very comfortable laughing and joking with the guys. Whilst singing, most of us continued to speak in tune, and it sounded fine in my opinion.
For the last part of the lesson, we did facial and vocal warm ups - these are warm up your face muscles and vocal chords that when you come to act and/or sing, you look or sound tight and seized up, and you sound and look very free and natural. You should do these before a performance so that your face is malleable to portray certain emotions and it looks natural rather than it looking like your acting. As part of the vocal exercises, we did a breathing exercise to understand and improve breath control. The exercise is called bowman on horseback - it is where you breath in as much as possible and hold it, then do a movement, then breathe back out forcefully and quickly, making a loud 'boom' sound as you do. I feel I was quite good at this because I have been singing for a number of years so I think my breath control has improved over the years.
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