Pass out Practice Agendas--dictate some things that singers should write in them.
In addition to scale patterns with solfege, drill half steps and whole steps Page 3-4 in workbook. Find the half steps and whole steps in the scale
Other drill and practice: Have kids sing the scale "silently" while you do hand signals. Stop on any pitch you wish and they sing that pitch out loud.
Compere--solfege and intro counting
Gavotte--reinforce whole and half step lesson
Schooldays--opens with half step. Chromatic patterns
Wind and Amfalula Tree--not too much on solfege today; work diction instead. vocal line on The wind. [u] sound needs focus (as in "Who"). reinforce and review IPA symbols for pure vowels
Housekeeping: Uniform order forms to pass out; Used Uniform Sale tomorrow at Callanwolde
Auditions at East and West this week--SEPT 17 for West at Mable House and SEPT 19 for East at the Sanford Performing Arts Ctr
2 comments:
We have a lot of work to do on the "sing intervals while silently singing scale in your head." I guess because it has been so long since I was "learning" music, I'm having a hard time connecting with the young singer who doesn't understand and has a hard time singing the concept of "higher notes". That's me.
I'm also a taskmaster - how can I make this fun for them while still getting the work done? Today I think we spent 10 minutes on getting them to sing four notes in a row before changing pitch. How much should I just let slide in pursuit of working a whole piece or other concepts?
Well, do you think the issue here with "higher notes" is finding the head tone? or are we just talking about finding ascending patterns diatonically?
As to the fun part, I think about that every day and find I fall short. I think the kids do better with 'Ok, maybe we can't do that, but let's see what you can do' and reward whatever skill they can make progress on. Also, making things physical and silly can sometimes do the trick. Henry Leck has a trick with octaves--when kids aren't singing an octave in tune, he has them throw an imaginary frisbee on his cue. Instead of making it predictable, he'll fake them out. Keeps the kids engaged and it's funny to be the one caught off guard. That's what I rack my brain with every day...Henry's stuff!
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