Lesson 8 - 21st November 2016

1st years

By Monday 12th December...

(you should be able to complete this work in the final hour of this lesson)

Either on your blog, on paper or e-mailed to me:

Give a full account of how to ensure healthy use of the voice.

This should include:

• Things in your lifestyle relevant to keeping the voice healthy
• Things to do in rehearsal and practice to ensure a healthy voice
• An account of warm-ups and exercises that can be used to keep the voice healthy

In each case, make sure you explain why these this things are important


Please note:

We will move the solo singing assignment to Monday 12th December as well. No lesson next week!!!

Lesson 6 - 7th November 2016

1st Years: You will be assessed singing a solo song on 28th November.

This will be sung from memory. I will be assessing you on your ability to characterise the song as well as vocal technique, tuning, rhythm etc.


We are working on this song as a group:




(note: it is not quite the arrangement we are doing but it is similar - and it's a really good recording)

Lyrics are here.