Hey! During my first Performance workshop i sang "Hiding My Heart" from Adele. I had been focusing on this piece for a while so i felt pretty confident about it, however when i got up there to perform the nerves hit me! When i get nervous on stage my jaw locks and I don't seem to get the accurate sound out. I felt that I needed to open up my mouth a bit more and really pronounce my words. One of the biggest problems i believe was my stage presence, I have to work on not looking so nervous and as Drew stated "own the stage". I also think that my swapping from chest to head voice was know where near up to the standard i had been originally practicing, so over the holiday and my previous singing lesson i have been working on that. Three positives that i believe i  achieved during my performance were - Using my chest voice strongly as i had practiced, got most of the high notes, and made sure i put emotion into it. I was lucky enough to get awesome feed back from both Rowan and Drew. Rowan believed that the tone of my voice worked really well with the song and the swapping from my head to chest voice worked really well, the only thing he wants me to work on is my nerves and stage presence, because that way i will feel more confident with my piece and the audience will know that  am well prepared and ready to perform. Drew was a really big help because he could relate to me as a singer. He wants me to focus on my breathing especially when singing the long deep notes. I was the first to perform so he gave the class a little bit of back ground on how singers and even other instrumentalist should present themselves on stage, and even how you walk onto the stage can dramatically effect your performance, I felt that both Rowan and Drew helped me really well with preparation and support for my piece. In order to achieve all of this, over the holidays I sang similar songs to my piece that had a lot of swapping from head to chest voice, I also broke the piece down and sung through the song slower in order to practice my breathing.




I have decided that on Friday I will re sing Hiding my Hear because i feel as though i can do a better of it after hearing the areas i need to improve on. I would love to get feedback on my dynamics, my swapping from head to chest voice and my stage presence because i believe they are the main 3 things i have been working on to improve.

During the double lesson we had with Mr Summerville we sung through choc top at interval so that he could have an idea of what we would be assessed on, he then thought it would be a good idea for him to play a few of the intervals on the piano and we would have to name then. I believe that everyone benefited from this activity because by the end of it everyone seemed to understand how to identify each interval more accurately.


During the holidays i felt as though i didn't stick to my practice routine as much as i had liked to. Reason being I was away for almost half of the holidays and all my homework slipped my mind! When i did get back however i did put in the effort and tried to catch up as much as i could. I also felt as though i had been given a whole lot of homework and it seems impossible to complete in the 2 weeks but i still managed to complete as much of it as i could. I feel as though i may have fallen behind a little bit after not practicing as often as i should of and this could have really effected me for my technical recital and also my performance, however i tend to stress if i don't get things done so i made sure i got on track i practiced as much as i could. Overall i feel like I haven't fallen behind to much but is now my responsibility to work hard this week and get back on track.