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 parts of the song well but do see our notes below too to get better! Keep up the good work and here are some caterpillar friends for you! 🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛
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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 – good
Understanding of the concept or exercise – good
Singing/ Pitching – good, needs some work
Rhythm – good
Overall control (volume, breath etc) – excellent
Pronunciation/ recollection of lyrics – excellent
Notes: Since there are multiple (but repetitive) lines in the song, I’d suggest practising/ recording in a lead-follow fashion (with the backing voiceover). This will take care of the feedback mentioned in recollection and singing above. While Ira is able to sing well, she just needs to get the particular tune for the particular line correct, especially in the first half. Surprisingly, she has got the second (more difficult half) correct 🙂
You’re almost halfway through the course, so keep the rhythm up!
Dear Ira,
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 parts of the song well but 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 – good
Understanding of the concept or exercise – good
Singing/ Pitching – good, needs some work
Rhythm – good
Overall control (volume, breath etc) – excellent
Pronunciation/ recollection of lyrics – excellent
Notes: Since there are multiple (but repetitive) lines in the song, I’d suggest practising/ recording in a lead-follow fashion (with the backing voiceover). This will take care of the feedback mentioned in recollection and singing above. While Ira is able to sing well, she just needs to get the particular tune for the particular line correct, especially in the first half. Surprisingly, she has got the second (more difficult half) correct 🙂
You’re almost halfway through the course, so keep the rhythm up!