In today's lesson I thought it was a good idea to start rehearsing Blank Space by Taylor Swift because I thought it would be a good starting point, and also the harmonies were clear in the song which meant it wasn't too complicated to work them out. We started rehearsal with a simple warm up of singing "la" up the scale of C, and then we did a run-through of the song. Amelia was absent in this lesson so we had to make decisions about her solo parts and harmonies without her. Luckily we knew her vocal range and we knew what she would want to sing.
After the first run-through we disrupted solo parts to everyone in the group. I'm starting the song by singing the first verse, followed by Amelia who will be singing the second verse. Evie will follow after the chorus with the third verse and Maddie will be singing the fourth verse. We are all going to be singing the choruses in the song and the bridge with different harmonies along with the melody. We did a run-through of the song with her parts and decided it sounded really good and the parts we had given ourselves suited our voices well.
Once the verses had to sorted out, we started to work on the chorus. Firstly, we decided that I would sing the melody of the chorus, however, as I knew the high harmony well I decided that I would sing the harmony and Maddie would sing the melody instead. This has worked out well as I can help others with their harmonies while Maddie sings the melody.
With Maddie singing the melody and me singing the high harmony, we decided Evie would sing the low harmony which is an octave lower than what I am singing. Amelia will then sing the lower octave of the melody as we knew she would be able to hit the low notes in the chorus. As Evie needed to learn her harmony we decided that Maddie and I would sing the melody and the high harmony first to get it sounding correct and we would use that as a starting point. As Evie's harmony is a lower octave of mine, I helped her when learning the harmony. To do this I sung her harmony so she knew what she was singing and we did a few run-throughs of the song so Evie could get the hang of the harmony. We ended the lesson by doing a run-through of the whole song and we all did our own solo parts and harmonies in the chorus. It sounded good, but we still needed to work on some of the harmonies. So we decided to go away and learn our harmonies on our own to see how we have improved in the next lesson.
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