Singing Examinations/Music Festivals

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Saltburn Festival

Dates are June 27 - 30 2008

Accomodation will be provided either by John and Julia or other friends in the area - if you don't need accom. PLEASE make sure you tell me!

Candidates

June 18/19 or 23rd due to lack of availability of Aros you may be taking your exams at Glenashdale!

Fay - Grade 8 Paid

Eileen - Grade 8 Paid

Morag G - Grade 7 Paid

Pam - Grade 6 Paid

Miranda E Grade 5 Paid

Jill S - Grade 4 Paid

Neil G - Grade 6 Paid

Catherine - Grade 4 Paid

June - Grade 5 Paid

Laurie - Grade 3 Paid

Annabel - Grade 3 Paid

Megan - Grade 2 Paid

Jenny - Grade 1

...if you can do three painless snatches of 10 minutes every day, you will have done three and a half hours of practice by your next lesson! That's like having an extra seven lessons each week!

How to Practice for Success !

a) Singing is time limited - Short and Sharp is best - 10 minutes of 'real' singing is more use than 30 minutes of 'going through the motions'.

b) A Game Plan is always best.

c) Keep Technical work, and Interpretive work as two individual sections;

Technical - Nuts and Bolts - Time, Words, Languages, Notes, Rhythms and Vowel Shapes.

Interpretation - What am I singing? What is the poem about? Who am I playing?

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The Level System !

A VERY INTERESTING SYSTEM
It really works !


The Level system is not designed to cope with the whole piece at once (and you should know better than to try and practice the whole piece at once!), so the first thing you need to do is to divide your piece up into sections. Bits that are small enough to chew on properly.


A couple of lines for each section is usually plenty. Usually the best thing to do is to simply draw a line under every two lines of music. Go on. You're allowed to.

You've done that? Good. Now your big piece is lots of little pieces.

Bitesize chunks work. After trying the first chunk, DO NOT move on to the next chunk until you 'Pass' on the first chunk. Pass means ; All correct notes, All correct rhythms, All correct words.

So your song may have 6 or more chunks - call them Levels, and when you have 'Passed' Level 6, have a glass of wine/pint/chocolate........, and reward yourself!

SEEMS SO SIMPLE, YET RARELY DO STUDENTS ACTUALLY DO IT....DO YOU?

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