Our 6 week 'learn-to-sing' course has now finished. The course was a great success and you can see below a journal of our progress, culminating in the Grand Finale show on the 5th March 2011.

Week 2 - Posture and Breathing

This weeks session started with a reminder of the great warm up routine by Sue. This got the evening off to a good start with everyone smiling, laughing .... and out of breath!
It was great to see some new faces tonight - you are all very welcome.
We covered the basics of 'posture' and 'breathing' before splitting into sections for our 20 minutes of 'note bashing'. We added the start of a new song 'One Fine Day' as well as going all the way through 'Lean On Me'
Some choreography has now been added, thanks to Anna and you can witness the results by clicking the video's opposite.
(if you click the 'YouTube' name you'll be able to watch it in full screen)

It was Helens turn to start this weeks session off with a great warm up routine - thanks Helen!
We had some reminders of the things we'd worked on over the previous two weeks before moving on to this weeks topic 'Vocal Freedom'.
One of the planned exercises this week was to experience constriction in the voice - so we know what it feels like, so we can avoid it! The idea was to sit on a chair, place your hands underneath the chair and try and pick yourself off the ground, but as we have so many (great) singers on the course we didnt have enough room :-).. what a nice problem to have :-)
We did some more work on the two course songs, 'Lean On Me' and 'One Fine Day', with some reminders from Anna on our visual presentation. We also started to think about the words in the songs to help express the correct emotion when we sing.
You can see where we are this week on 'Lean On Me' by clicking the video opposite.
(if you click the 'YouTube' name you'll be able to watch it in full screen)