My recital went very well,What I had been doing is that when I was handed out the assignment on 23rd of November,I had been filling up my blog about what kind of practices I had been doing like tongue twisting excercise for example as you keep singing these two words Irish wristwatch and Comical economists and other words and sentences, several times as you sing the scales in descending order and similar to humming the scales with major and minor chords.I had been practicing breathing excercises and also learning Indian music and doing the technical practices like singing the first note of a particular phrase and for how much I can hold.
Now I am going to talk about the preparation for my recital and how I did my recital. Whatever I had been rehearsing,I had included notes and about the songs in my blog with putting the MP3 Karoake versions and writing drafts of programme notes and then sending the MP3 backing tracks and the programme notes via email and I also put the MP 3 backing tracks on my blog. I was ready to sing for the recital much before hand because I had been working on songs even before my mock recital and was ready to sing the list of songs for the actual recital for which I had time to keep practicing even better for my recital. I had been doing Ok in my mock recital which happened on 30th November and also during the lessons after the Christmas break I had raised my hand telling the teacher that I wanted to sing one song when he asked who all would like to sing today.This was practice time during the recital for February. For my mock recital,I sang Castle of glass by Linkin park and wake me up when September ends by Green day.My feedback which I got from Philip,He said that I didn't need to stretch the phrases for so long and find some more shape and phrases in the song and even other songs also when I was doing the practice recitals for the actual ones. In the final recital,This time it went better and as I did in response to the feedback given to me,I didn't stretch the phrases for so long and only for a short period of time before singing the next parts of the songs while performing in the recital. I had my backing tracks ready and I was tapping my finger on the microphone and my tapping my hand on my leg and it was also said in my mock recital feedback that I should not tap my foot so luckily I didn't do that in the actual recital and I was confident about how and when to sing using the backing track while performing. However,during the year and when I go ahead in life,I will make sure that I am confident and do better and better than before and what I felt that the good part during these lessons for the preparation for the recital in January was that I was ready to sing so that I could get more feedback from Philip and other friends as what I should do more better in and where I was going wrong.This really helped me to do better in the actual recital so that I could start working on it.Now because,I had done well in this recital,I also got a chance to sing the Hindi song Zoobi doobi in front of the whole college before the start of the student awards. I sang itch confidence and was very happy to perform in this special occasion. As I kept practicing for the recital at home and in college,I always made sure that it was a 25 minute performance including what I was going to speak. I never sang with backing tracks before but starting doing in this certificate course as people can also enjoy the beat of the backing track while I perform on stage. So my Songs consist as follows which I performed for the recital.
Castle of glass-Linkin park
Wake me up when September ends-Green Day.
Most of the song of tell me why-Declan Galbraith,
Then the two Hindi language songs named Dhooba Dhooba rehta hoon by a band named Silk route
Zoobi doobi from an Indian Bollywood film named 3 idiots
Treat you better by Shawn Mendez.
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