Beginning Monday 2/25

Monday 2/25

     My very own. Just some more general points. mostly taller vowels, watch Mrs. Patchett for dynamics and remember your phrasing. Also hit the V sound every time we sing love, we rarely do it enough. One specific thing, we now can take a breath between 'beautiful beyond compare.' and 'how beautiful' but we have to crescendo through the long 'beautiful'.

     Take Me to the Water. Same as My very own tall vowels, every water is pronounced 'wader' with no t. We also did some work on the ending building the final 'take me' cord also how we are ending the piece is a little up in the air so watch Mrs. Patchett when we sing the last phrase.

      We spent the end of class talking about how now that we have the energy and are really getting into the phrasing that energy needs to come from our hearts. We've started talking about the meanings and differing tones of our two songs. My Very Own being a song of professing your deep love for someone else, and Take Me being a song that slaves would sing telling escapees how to get away from dogs by wadding in water to loose their scent.

Reminders

• SIR due FRIDAY it is a QUIZ GRADE and you only have 3 ATTEMPTS

Announcements

There are 12 rehearsals until we go to MPA (music performance adjudication)

This week sight-reading factory counts as a quiz grade. Make sure you complete it! You will have 3 attempts.

All students - please do everything you can do to stay well! As we get closer to MPA we need EVERYONE well and in class for rehearsal.

If you missed the singing quiz on Friday, you will need your cell phone and you need to log into charms so we can make sure you get the quiz done.

Tomorrow we will have our clinician, Mrs. Covington with us. Please show her how awesome you are from the moment you walk in. Be in your seat and SILENT by the bell.