Final Blog Post Evaluation

 What were your two targets you set on teams for solo 2?

Tone Quality

Rhythm and Key

How has your improvement plan made a difference to these things?

I feel like again focusing on my bada bada bada warmups everyday before I start doing the song full out has improved my rhythm. It helps me to think and know when to sing the words with the song and it gets me through the song. Doing the normal warmups as well like sirening up and down to warm up the larynx. Watching all those videos on Vocal tone and practising with them as the youtube video goes along helped me fix up my vocal tone as well. Also to make the vocal tone consistent doing the lip trills as a warmup helps as well. 

How have you improved as a vocalist this year?

I feel like I have improved as a vocalist a lot. I feel like at the start of the year I was quite scared and frightened as I hadn't sung in a very long time because after my voice broke I didn't think I could sing well or high like I used to so I closed myself off. Then on the first solo "They Live in you" It was quite a strong powerful song and I'm not sure I was ready for it as my solo so I struggled a bit to get the right tone and key towards the high notes. But after a bunch of singing and pushing myself with singing lesson, I feel like I'm on the way to only improving my singing and confidence with different songs.

I feel like I still need to develop my vocal range a lot more as I am still quite only in the low section and I feel like I can sing higher If I put my mind to it and put in the hours and practise. I also feel like I need to practise keeping up the consistency of my vocal tone.

Reflection on Mock and final Performance (Strengths and weakenesses)

 https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/697ce803-5523-4fed-987c-596db272c8c6?channelId=ebf31cf4-b359-413a-9aa9-ad30c26b0a04

Just haven't met you yet

I feel like my solo went really well. I really took in my targets with vocal tone and rhythm and I feel like I hit the notes well and my rhythm was consistently good. All the warmups that I had done leading up to this final performance have really helped me reach this point where I am at. When singing the song I feel like my stage presence was also good, I was moving around the whole stage and trying to communicate with the audience with facial expressions and the jazzy movements that Michael Buble did. As the song went on I carried on doing as well as I could trying to embed my character and everything, then towards the end where I included Michael Bubles little improvisation I had a tiny voice break/slip and I was very disappointed in myself because I feel like my performance was going so well.

Reflections on chosen targets

 

Spring concert reflection

 How I felt it went?

I feel like it the concert went pretty well. When we first started singing the song 'and so it goes' I was a little bit scared and panicked because the harmonies that I was given were very technical and I really did struggle to hear and sing them out at first. Then the 2nd rehearsal I felt like it was a little bit better but I was still struggling and as rehearsals started going on I started to get a bit more confident in which harmonies were correct and which ones were out of tune. Then I got the opportunity to sing a solo bit of the song. I was a bit scared again but then I was up for the challenge to push myself and so I feel like it all went well in the end.

Somewhere only we know was a good song and because I was familiar with the song I found it easier to pick out the harmonies in the song which made it a lot easier for me to get a long with the song than the other song. With somewhere only we know it was quite fun singing it with my harmony group as we were enjoying the moment that we had together although it was a sad song it was nice to sing with them.

My strengths and weakness of the choir and my own individual performance

I feel like the boys and I in the lower harmonies kind of struggled with the songs that were given to us. It wasn't that we were not able to reach the notes its just that the lower baritone harmonies were so different to all the others so it made me slip up a bit. I feel like I am to blame for some of it as sometimes I had to read the notes in my head and go for the best option to harmonies and sometimes improvising worked and then sometimes it didn't sound right and so that is why I feel like I made it a bit worse. But I also feel like for the harmonies that I knew we were doing and what they sounded like I projected it out louder so that they could be heard and this was my confidence coming out.

And so it goes

only somewhere we know

Smart Targets

 June 1st:

Upload links on how to improve vocal tone:

Links of Michael Bubles performances:

Michael Buble has such an amazing voice. His vocal tone and his range is crazy. When watching his videos of performances and live and the official music video. He is always communicating with someone or something whether its the audience or the camera. At his life performances we can see that he is always holding a microphone that is wired and he is moving around at different high and low levels making his performances entertaining. 

June 5th:

Lyrics of the song:

I'm not surprised, not everything lasts
I've broken my heart so many times I stopped keeping track
Talk myself in, I talk myself out
I get all worked up then I let myself down

I tried so very hard not to lose it
I came up with a million excuses
I thought, I thought of every possibility

And I know some day that it'll all turn out
You'll make me work so we can work to work it out
And I promise you kid that I'll give so much more than I get
I just haven't met you yet

Hmm... hmm

I might have to wait, I'll never give up
I guess it's half timing and the other half's luck
Wherever you are, whenever it's right
You'll come out of nowhere and into my life

And I know that we can be so amazing
And baby your love is gonna change me
And now I can see every possibility

Somehow I know that it'll all turn out
You'll make me work so we can work to work it out
And promise you kid I'll give so much more than I get
I just haven't met you yet

They say all's fair in love and war
But I won't need to fight it
We'll get it right and we'll be united

And I know that we can be so amazing
And being in your life is gonna change me
And now I can see every single possibility

And someday I know it'll all turn out
And I'll work to work it out
Promise you kid I'll give more than I get, than I get, than I get, than I get

Oh you know it'll all turn out
And you'll make me work so we can work to work it out
And promise you kid to give so much more than I get yeah
I just haven't met you yet

I just haven't met you yet
Oh promise you kid to give so much more than I get
I said love love love love love love love
I just haven't met you yet
Yeah, I just haven't met you yet

June 15th

In warmups I practised singing and doing various different warmup types. The one warmup that I specifically focused on was lip trills. It occurred to me that when I am singing my vocal tone wasn't very good but when I started doing lip trills my vocal tone was amazing and so I feel like if I continue to do lip trills everyday as a warmup before doing a lot of singing my vocal tone could improve over time.

Along with this and my 2nd target was going along with the rhythm correctly and making sure that I'm hitting the words well on the beat. With the video above the ba da ba das, were a warmup to help me get into the rhythm of the my final solo song. I feel like this has helped me so much.