singing

thursday 16th may

today we did our songs i perforemed a duet with millie we did another suitcase from evita  i also did another song from evita "you must love me " and a duet with grace from wicked "for good" pictures to come


14th
singing back frases i need to work on this as this is what i struggle with.



research on three songs 


"For Good" is a musical number from the hit musical Wicked. It is sung as a duetbetween Elphaba (the Wicked Witch of the West) and Glinda, as a farewell to each other. The song's music and lyrics were written by composer Stephen Schwartz.

Context [edit]

The song is performed towards the end of the musical. In it, the two are singing farewell to one another. Just prior to the song, Elphaba gives Glinda the Grimmerie and tells her that it is now up to her to continue Elphaba's cause. After this song, Elphaba leaves and is supposedly melted by Dorothy (it later turns out that this was an elaborate set-up to fool the citizens of Oz into thinking she was dead so they would stop hunting her). In the end, she and Fiyero, turned into "The Scarecrow" by one of Elphaba's spells gone awry, run away together.

It is the climax, and one of the most well-known songs of the show. It is reprised as part of the show's finale.

Lyrics [edit]

The song's lyrics concern how both Elphaba and Glinda have been changed by their friendship with each other. Glinda starts out by saying that, while she doesn't know if it is true that people come into each other's lives for a reason, "I know I'm who I am today because I knew you." Similarly, Elphaba tells Glinda that "whatever way our stories end, I know you have rewritten mine by being my friend." Elphaba also asks Glinda to forgive her for anything she might have done wrong, to which Glinda replies that "there's blame to share", but both agree that "none of it seems to matter anymore." Schwartz said after the show premiered that to begin the song, he asked his daughter what she would say if she would never see her best friend again, and her answer became the first verse of "For Good".^{[citation needed]}

The lyrics rely on the play of words, "for good," which are used to signify alternatively "forever" and "as an improvement."

Another Suitcase in Another Hall" is a song from the musical Evita with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The song was first a hit in the UK for Barbara Dickson in 1977. The B-side was the "Requiem for Evita", which had a slightly strange ending as it did not have "Oh What a Circus" to segue into.

Composition [edit]

The lyrics describe the singer's familiarity with the unhappiness of having to move on after a failed romance. In the stage musical, the song is sung by Juan Perón's mistress after she is pushed out of Perón's life by his future wife, Eva. In the film adaptation of Evita, the song is adapted for Eva to sing after the end of her relationship with Agustín Magaldi, adding a more vulnerable dimension to the character and another potential Madonna hit to aid the film's promotion.

American singer-songwriter Madonna released the song as the third and final single from the 1996 soundtrack Evita. It was released March 24, 1997 by Warner Bros. Records and was only available in the UK, New Zealand, Australia and a small number of Europeancountries. The arrangement was altered significantly for Madonna's version of the song. The piece was transposed down from the original key of B Major to A-flat Major and an instrumental break added.

"You Must Love Me" is a pop ballad recorded by American singer-songwriter Madonnafrom the soundtrack album Evita of the motion picture of the same name.^[1] It was released in October 1996 by Warner Bros. as the first single from the album. Written byTim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, the song won an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1997.^[1] It was seen by critics as her "new adult, matriarchal image".^[2]

The track is the only song recorded for the movie that did not originate in one form or another from the original stage version of the musical. The song reunited lyricistTim Rice and composer Andrew Lloyd Webber after eleven years of not working together on any new songs. It was written specifically for the film (the director Alan Parker requested a rewrite of parts of the final scenes of the score) and was included in the stage production for the first time when the musical was staged in Iceland in 1997 and subsequently in many other productions, including the English language revival, starring Elena Roger, in June 2006 at London's Adelphi Theatre.

Featuring a simple, elegantly arranged melody, the single sold roughly 1.5 million copies worldwide, and entered the top twenty in countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. The music video shows her while being eight months pregnant with her first child, and scenes from the film Evita, for which she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Music

The song speaks on two levels: First, the literal level of Eva Perón's discovery that her husband Juan Perón has actually loved her all along and not merely seen her as a political prop. Second, in a more political level, as Eva Perón talking to her people, notably represented in the musical by the character of Che. The B-side to the single was "Rainbow High".

Brooke White covered this song on the seventh season of American Idol, during Andrew Lloyd Webber week. She marked Idol history that night when she stopped after the first verse in the song to restart because she forgot the lyrics.

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practis routine warm up 

tuesday 2rd of april
today i concentrated on my breathing as i have a high note in we will rock yo and it last for a long time i started of with holding  note for  8 counts i then moved it to 18 counts each time producing another sound alternating from ahh to oooo.

next time i need to work on short breaths i will do this by singing my tongue twisters 

i can now comfortable sing i want it all 



practise routine 9th april 
as i sed in my last practise routine i need to work on my breath contorol i did this by singning red lorry yellow lory getting faster and faster i need to do this each practise 


23rd april

this week i decided to sing my songs in different tones and find a comfortable way of reaching my notes i also did my scales i seem to be finding it easier to stay in pitch 




7th may 
today i did my normal warm up as i have a sore throat i didnt want to push it 




14th may 

today i was concentrating on phrases.

singing
today we did some vocal warm ups

we did these for are vowels
clare rare bear snare
do you do blue poos
aww pars fast cars
tom stops ron long song
we then did some alpegiosa and scales and we jumped octaves

today we did our blocking of act one and marked through our songs.
we have decided to have the run through keep both groups rehersing at the same time my charecter  is very bubbly but tough so i think im going to base her on rachel tuckers version and i think she will be a bit like rachel berry tough and strong determined to get what she wants  and glinda from wicked the liht bubbly cute self .eeech


31st Feb
we were working on part singing we started with londons bridge is falling dwon and mary had a little lamb "pees in hot Pees in cold" staggered.
we then sang harmony to fiddler on the roofs sunset sunrise song

for m this was very difficult i really think ineed to work o harmonys i dont htink ill ever get them

chicago

i sang all that jazz  from chicago . my charecter was confident and sassy a seductresss. overall i think the the perfromance went well and i got into my charecter i made sure i stayed strong and focused on the audince. i think my outfit helped as it got me into the mood . i made eye contact with different people and joined in the dance i made sure i was serious through out and incontrol

singing technique 

ena lesson

we did routines to help with our vowles

do you do blue poo this helped with our oos

aww theres pars fast cars this helped with out arrs

we three flees need trees this helped with our eess

tom stoped rons long song this helped with our oms

we then did alpegios

and scalea and octave jumps

this helped me get my vocal range to improve i now i need to increase by chest voice range.

we did these for are vowels 

clare rare bear snare 

do you do blue poos 

aww pars fast cars 

tom stops ron long song 

we then did some alpegiosa and scales and we jumped octaves  this will help with our vocals and increas our range and diction wich is ver important for the up and coming shows .

singing warm up

i start with my stance i relax my shoulders i personaly find it easier to sing if im moving or walking i feel more relaxed than standing still. i also think this is good training for when on stage. i then move on to my breathing techniques  in inhale for 4 and exale then increase the counts as i progress.
i thenmove on to toungue twisters dragons drinking dragon drinks. i then do a normal scale to warm up then move on to a slippering scale like scream. i then do my vowles v a r u also in scale with alpedjios


today i cncentrated mainly on stance as when i get nervous i freese up i have also been doing my warm ups in front of my parents somthing i would never do before this is a huge step i have never sung infront of them before

Thursday, 3 January 2013

practise routine 2

today i worked on my jaw tension i tried differnt ithings i feel the humming worked really well i think i should include this permanty in my warm upi  also helps me out different sounds from different parts of mouth shape.

lena sing audit

lena called us in for our singin audit

where she did some singing scales and tested us basic on our strange as this is what i need to improve

i need to extend my range so i can hit that g comfortably