Beginning Tuesday 2/12

Tuesday 2/12

     For starters almost all the sopranos and some altos got new seats. Mrs. Patchett switched sopranos 1 and 2 so now soprano 1 is in the back 2 rows and soprano 2 is in the front 3 rows. Some altos got switched around but not many so just sit in your normal seat tomorrow. 

     In working with both of the songs we worked a lot on moving our singing 'forward' in our face. We talked about it on a scale 10 being super nasally and you feel buzzing in your nose and right under your eyes. 1 is basically swallowing the sound, your tongue is far back in your mouth and you feel the sound at the base of your neck. Basses overall need to have the sound farther up more often. They tend to need a 6 or 7 even though they want to sing at a 3. In Take Me to The Water we worked a lot on pages 6-7 getting the basses to sing at a 6 and having everyone else lean in to every 'wade' during that section. In My Very Own we went over all the small things we need to do on pages 4-5. We worked on phrasing, crescendos and decrescendos, a lot of work on vowels and hitting some of the consonants.

reminders

• Canvas homework due THURSDAY
• NO sight reading this week

Announcements

This is the last week of sales for Singing Valentines. Today is the absolute last day to purchase!!! Please please please tell all your friends to purchase a singing valentine for someone today or tomorrow!

There are 19 rehearsals until we go to MPA (music performance adjudication)

Make sure you are keeping up with your canvas music theory assignments and yours sight-reading factory assignments.  There are no sight-reading factory assignments due this week.

Please come in for help at lunch for sight-reading or theory

All students - it is cold and flu season.  There are some nasty mean bugs going around.  WASH YOUR HANDS! WASH YOUR HANDS! WASH YOUR HANDS!!!  DO NOT drink after each other! You may feel fine now, but you might be sharing a cold you don’t know you have yet.  Bring your OWN water bottle to school and drink at least 64 oz of water a day!!!!