Tuesday 9th September 2014
Unit and Project Briefing
We started our first project today for our singing unit "Singing Techniques and Performance". What genre a performer works in, whether it be singing lead or backing vocals in live performances of recording studios, or if you are an actor or dancer working in musical theatre, the voice can be the central component of the performance work you undertake. For all singers an ability to communicate the meaning of a song is vital to a successful performance.
This unit encourages our development and maintenance of our voices through regular and sustained practise and will develop our understanding or how practise can contribute to good technique. We will also develop the ability to sing at sight, a very desirable skill in the profession. In addition we will develop skills as an ensemble singer and as a soloist throughout the unit and will perform a wide variety of musical repertoire that both demonstrates your strengths and musical preferences and stretches and challenges you as a performer of less familiar songs/genres.
Our first project, "Vocal Exercises", involves us imagining we are an actor whose agent has secured them an audition of a play in London's West End.
The role is which we are being auditioned is required to sing, yet your agent is aware that you have limited experience and are not a confident singer. To help us they have enrolled us in a course with a singing coach who will work with us and teach us a series of vocal exercises that will help as us work on our audition material.
Our agent has asked us to keep a record of the work we do with the singing coach and its value to us over the weeks of our course as we rehearse the audition song and other songs you may be given to help us. This record will take the form of a video diary style blog.
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