Last lesson we all agreed that we needed to learn the lyrics to both of the ensemble songs, so we have decided to do that this lesson. Before that we sung up the scale of C while singing "o e o e o" and also we decided to sing our arpeggios as well to help with any leaps that we have in our songs. Both of these warm ups were effective because they warmed up our vocal cords and also they helped me prepare me for our duet as I have quite a few leaps in the song that I need to prepare.
We started by rehearsing Ho Hey with the lyrics quite a few times in a row so we could get used to the lyrics and also so we could remind ourselves of what we are singing. Then once we had rehearsed it with the lyrics a few times, we decided to rehearse it without the lyrics. This wasn't too challenging as we all knew our parts and we roughly knew the lyrics anyway. We did the same thing with Blank Space and we found that we struggled with remembering the lyrics more. The reason for this is because the song is up-tempo and the phrasing in the song is quite fast which means we have a lot to remember when singing the song. We decided to go back to singing the song with the lyrics and then after a few run-throughs of that, we decided to go back to singing the song without the lyrics to see if we had improved. The outcome of that was good as we remember the majority of the lyrics. We still need to learn some of the lyrics, but we know all the chorus' and the bridges in both songs so we only need to focus on the lyrics in the verses.
Once we had rehearsed all the group songs with and without the lyrics we decided to go and work on our duets separately. Myself and Amelia knew we had to work on the harmonies and the melody of the chorus, fourth verse and the bridge so we decided to focus on that this lesson. When we messed up we would go back to where we messed up refresh our memory of what we have to sing and then redo it to help us get used to it and to help it stick in our memory. We still need to improve on the harmonies slightly but we are improving quite a bit and we are happy with the outcome so far.
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