Practise Blog week beginning 23rd November

This week I have focused on my exercises to help strengthen my

performance: My breathing exercise, where I hold and control my breathing in
stages of four counts, humming and increasing vibration therefore projection of
my voice and holding notes within my yawn space. This has been helping me
whilst practising my scales, arpeggios and songs in my repertoire.
I have continued and made some progress with the Paolo Nutini song called
no other way but I have still struggled with maintaining the timing. I have been
playing the chords on the guitar to help with my accuracy of singing the lyrics at
the right point therefore I am slowly improving with my performance and ability
of this song and time signature.
This week I have also been working towards a performance at the CCI
theatre in which me and my group performed Hello by Adele and Superstition by
Stevie Wonder. During the chorus of the Adele song it hits a high Bb which in the
passaggio area of my voice, between my chest register and head register, so I
really struggled with this part of the song. Instead of this I have been doing a
lower harmony to accompany the other singer. I need to continue doing scale
work around that note to strengthen that transition between them to make a
continuous smooth sound. The Stevie Wonder song also has notes within that
transitional area, so I need to focus on improving that area.