Thursday 20th September

In this lesson we focused on singing. To begin with we experimented with different ways of preparing yourself to sing. Its important that before you sing your body is ready, you need to be standing correctly, shoulders down, head held with no tension. Also its very important your jaw is ready. You need to stretch your jaw otherwise you could damage it when singing notes that require you to open your mouth wide. To do this you need to let your jaw drop, the easiest way of doing this is to start a yawn but don't let it completely go into a full yawn. Also if you pretend you have a extremely chewy toffee in your mouth and chew as much and as over exaggerating it as you can this will move the jaw enough to let it be stretched and ready for you to sing with your mouth as wide as you want. Also when singing its important you have a good posture.

Lena played us a 2 bar melody using varied notes going up to a top C with and we memorised it and sang it back. This is part of the course but with a 4 bar so was relieving to know we are half way there as when told I thought itll be a hard task but I think itll be easier than I first imagined.

We did the same warm up as last lesson but instead of going up the scale we did rising rapeggio singing v-e-e-r-r-r-o-n. I before haven't done much singing and haven't done warmups so this is all very new but also exciting.

We then got taught about a piano. We learned what keys are what notes and how to find each note. We are now high class at piano geography. Once roughly knowing what keys are what we were then able to play a 12 bar blues with Lena. This was quite exciting and fun.

Overall I thoroughly enjoyed this lesson and feel it went too quickly.