:) Day 16 of this crazy awesome challenge!
Tonight has been a stressful night.... I needed a little singing to help make me feel better. Glad it is becoming something I can use to escape from things... in a good way! Had a great/challenging day before the stress came in. I would scream right now if it wasn't bad for your voice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Daily Practice Session
Technical Concepts - Today I worked on the Melissa Cross DVD, she has some good warm ups... I really enjoy her breathing exercises. I feel as though it has helped me immensely. My breath support feels like it has gotten better. I enjoyed using her "above the pencil" concept in the warm-ups as well because it helps give the idea of singing into the soft palate. Because she has never been my actual voice teacher... (after the talk today) I feel like I need feedback on the exercises. SO I also went through one of my earliest Kurt recordings. I worked on all the scales he gave me but I remembered that one of the times we worked he mentioned that you can sing through the scales instead of doing the chopped up exercises.
48 Minutes
Technical Concepts - Today I worked on the Melissa Cross DVD, she has some good warm ups... I really enjoy her breathing exercises. I feel as though it has helped me immensely. My breath support feels like it has gotten better. I enjoyed using her "above the pencil" concept in the warm-ups as well because it helps give the idea of singing into the soft palate. Because she has never been my actual voice teacher... (after the talk today) I feel like I need feedback on the exercises. SO I also went through one of my earliest Kurt recordings. I worked on all the scales he gave me but I remembered that one of the times we worked he mentioned that you can sing through the scales instead of doing the chopped up exercises.
48 Minutes
Repertoire - I listened to That's your Funeral from Oliver 8 times tried to find different ones to see different people singing it so I didn't get stuck with one sound... and worked on memorizing the words to it for my call back tomorrow. Vocally this my favorite one I heard - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRpse-GsTw8&feature=related
I also sang through Be Still three times because I really want to work on that in my lesson tomorrow. I also listened to tons of stuff from my new music book and I think I have found some new stuff for my repertoire... will announce what later. I always fall or the low note songs... I can't get away from it!!
24 Minutes
Successes – I feel as though the song That's your funeral will kinda easy.. I am sure it wont be but...
I also really thought that much warm-up was really great! Wish I had that much time every day!
Areas for improvement – I was a little stressed and I could definitely feel that affecting my ability to relax. It was cool to see how much that affects your singing ability... no wonder it is hard to perform when you are nervous; It is a similar feeling to stress!
Notes: I mapped out the contest today-- day by day marking when I will have things completed and it really helped with the stress I was feeling about that.
Areas for improvement – I was a little stressed and I could definitely feel that affecting my ability to relax. It was cool to see how much that affects your singing ability... no wonder it is hard to perform when you are nervous; It is a similar feeling to stress!
Notes: I mapped out the contest today-- day by day marking when I will have things completed and it really helped with the stress I was feeling about that.
Dance/Personal Fitness - I definitely count this as a dance class because I worked my butt off (see sweat above :P). The choreography was not particularly hard but I definitely learned and practiced hard.
Date/time - 3:00-4:00 January, 16th, 2011
Type of class – Call back choreography
Difficulty Level - intermediate
Studio and Instructor (Include Photo) –
What did you most enjoy? – I enjoyed the challenge of remembering choreography and performing it in just an hour... very good practice to be in.
What did you find challenging and why? – It was crazy hot in that tiny little room. There was a couple moves that were harder for me to remember... I also had one silly step that I over thought and could not do it, then finally when I didn't think about it I got it perfect at the very end! DON'T OVER THINK CHOREOGRAPHY!
Observations –There were many trained dancers there that had great technique but little character and expression... that is also a good lesson - Don't let the technique kill the character!
Date/time - 3:00-4:00 January, 16th, 2011
Type of class – Call back choreography
Difficulty Level - intermediate
Studio and Instructor (Include Photo) –
What did you most enjoy? – I enjoyed the challenge of remembering choreography and performing it in just an hour... very good practice to be in.
What did you find challenging and why? – It was crazy hot in that tiny little room. There was a couple moves that were harder for me to remember... I also had one silly step that I over thought and could not do it, then finally when I didn't think about it I got it perfect at the very end! DON'T OVER THINK CHOREOGRAPHY!
Observations –There were many trained dancers there that had great technique but little character and expression... that is also a good lesson - Don't let the technique kill the character!
Healthy Eating
Meal Description – My sweetie made a little stir-fry for me when I got home from the audition which I really needed because I got my butt kicked!!!! It had brown rice, broccoli, carrots, mushrooms, beef.
Restaurant or Market – ?
Rating – ***** because I didn't have to cook and it was very tasty!!
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