Apologies for the delay in responding to the assignment.
Dear Niara,
Did you like this new song? And do you remember the patterns Tootly made to draw a caterpillar from the notes? I see you’ve sung well and do see our notes below too to get better! Keep up the good work and here are some caterpillar friends for you! 🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛
—x—
Dear Parent,
This is a vocal exercise that every beginner student of classical music learns. Once the first stage of expanding the voice range, getting stability while singing, and being able to sing with ease in one direction (up or down) is achieved, students move on to exercises created by recurring patterns like these. Think of them like training exercises for their voices.
In this particular song, we are checking a few things: if students can manoeuvre the zig zag melody well, reach the correct highest point of the melody, and land back correctly at the starting point after completing the song.
Please also see our point-wise feedback below (based on needs work/ good/ excellent):
Confidence and Independence – excellent
Understanding of the concept or exercise – excellent
Singing/ Pitching – good
Rhythm – good
Overall control (volume, breath etc) – good
Pronunciation/ recollection of lyrics – good
Notes: Since there are multiple (but repetitive) lines in the song, continue practising in a lead-follow fashion (with the backing voiceover). This will help with ease and confidence in singing.
We’re happy that as expected by this stage of the course, Niara is able to understand the melodic pattern, imitate a tune well and also have a certain amount of control and smoothness in singing. Keep up the good work 🙂
We noticed that even when Niara was doing the listen-follow mode, she was NOT following the line – this sort of defeats the purpose of doing the lead-follow. Hence we’d request you to pause and correct her to repeat the line. Even when Niara is singing on her own, she seems in a hurry to finsih the line and start the next one.
You’re almost halfway through the course, so keep the rhythm up!
The next recording is quite a few lessons away, but there is a live meet milestone in between. Please look out for the email notification once you complete Day 39. If you feel so, please schedule one before that too.
Look forward to meeting Niara soon.
Apologies for the delay in responding to the assignment.
Dear Niara,
Did you like this new song? And do you remember the patterns Tootly made to draw a caterpillar from the notes? I see you’ve sung well and do see our notes below too to get better! Keep up the good work and here are some caterpillar friends for you! 🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛
—x—
Dear Parent,
This is a vocal exercise that every beginner student of classical music learns. Once the first stage of expanding the voice range, getting stability while singing, and being able to sing with ease in one direction (up or down) is achieved, students move on to exercises created by recurring patterns like these. Think of them like training exercises for their voices.
In this particular song, we are checking a few things: if students can manoeuvre the zig zag melody well, reach the correct highest point of the melody, and land back correctly at the starting point after completing the song.
Please also see our point-wise feedback below (based on needs work/ good/ excellent):
Confidence and Independence – excellent
Understanding of the concept or exercise – excellent
Singing/ Pitching – good
Rhythm – good
Overall control (volume, breath etc) – good
Pronunciation/ recollection of lyrics – good
Notes: Since there are multiple (but repetitive) lines in the song, continue practising in a lead-follow fashion (with the backing voiceover). This will help with ease and confidence in singing.
We’re happy that as expected by this stage of the course, Niara is able to understand the melodic pattern, imitate a tune well and also have a certain amount of control and smoothness in singing. Keep up the good work 🙂
We noticed that even when Niara was doing the listen-follow mode, she was NOT following the line – this sort of defeats the purpose of doing the lead-follow. Hence we’d request you to pause and correct her to repeat the line. Even when Niara is singing on her own, she seems in a hurry to finsih the line and start the next one.
You’re almost halfway through the course, so keep the rhythm up!
The next recording is quite a few lessons away, but there is a live meet milestone in between. Please look out for the email notification once you complete Day 39. If you feel so, please schedule one before that too.
Look forward to meeting Niara soon.