AM3 Practice Plan by Alia

Aims

farahalia1510 — 2024-06-14 02:33:19 UTC

Precise pitching

Better vocal projection
Smooth vocal transitions
Good vocal runs & riffs
Stable belting
Better breath control
Better enunciation of words

farahalia1510 — 2024-06-14 02:34:02 UTC

farahalia1510 — 2024-08-01 04:39:31 UTC

Learned the vocal techniques for "Snow Angel" by Renee Rapp. I listened to the song part by part to decide which techniques to use, and then proceeded to watch the live version of this song and observed her vocals.

farahalia1510 — 2024-08-01 04:40:02 UTC

Today I trained my belting voice by doing a lip trill exercise and go up the scales. Then, I will use the word "ney" to sing up the scales, while aiming to "shoot" my vocals out across the room. These 2 warm up exercises helps me project my chest and head voice better. As part of the exercise, I sang "Sinaran" by Sheila Majid, where a lot of chest voice belting is required.

farahalia1510 — 2024-08-01 04:40:32 UTC

To achieve precise pitching, I warmed up my vocals by singing up and down the scales. I've noticed that i tend to get flat whenever i try to hit a higher note. One of the reasons was also because I did not use enough support from my diaphragm. To solve this, I chose a song with lots of higher notes, and tried matching my pitch to each note on the piano. I chose the same song which was "Snow Angel" by Renee Rapp.

farahalia1510 — 2024-08-01 04:40:49 UTC

Today I did some exercises to smoothen my vocal transitions from chest voice to head voice, to avoid the transitions sounding like it is about to crack. There is an exercise I've tried called the "siren" where I focus on gliding smoothly from my lowest chest voice to my highest head voice, and tried to avoid having voice cracks. Then, I used the vowel "ooh" and did an octave leap, as I go up the scales. Once again, I used the song "Snow angel" to practice this technique.

farahalia1510 — 2024-08-01 04:41:11 UTC

Today I worked on my runs and riffs. I used the outro of "Bridge over troubled water" by Jacob Collier as my exercise. The previous week was helpful because this song not only helps develop better runs and riffs, but also requires a smooth vocal transition from one line to another.

farahalia1510 — 2024-08-01 04:41:35 UTC

Today I have worked on my enunciations. The song I chose to practice my enunciation on is "Almost there" by Anika Noni Rose, a song from the musical called "Princess and the frog". Musical theatre songs are known for their enunciations, which I think is suitable for this practice. I started by reading the lyrics and over-pronounce the words. Then, I proceeded to apply this exercise on the chosen song.

farahalia1510 — 2024-08-01 04:41:44 UTC

I decided to work more on my enunciations, so I chose to learn another musical theatre song called "Part of your world" by Jodi Benson, which was from "The little mermaid". This time, I focused on my enunciations and vocal projection.

farahalia1510 — 2024-08-01 04:42:08 UTC

On this day I have done exercises that helps with my breath control, by inhaling deeply before exhaling on a sustained "sh" sound, maintaining a steady airflow and consistent volume. I did this for around 4 times. I was also planning to learn the bridge of "When this rain stops" by Wendy, as I need a lot of breath control for this part.

farahalia1510 — 2024-08-01 04:55:53 UTC

As part of a practice session, I decided to ask classmate Brandon Cheong to help me with the guitar accompaniment while I sing an Indonesian song called "O Ya" by Tika Ramlan. Through this practice session, i have learnt how to use my diaphragm more while singing, and because there were some parts of this song that has included chromatic scales, it is definitely a good practice for my pitching accuracy.

farahalia1510 — 2024-08-01 04:59:13 UTC

I had another practice session where I asked for help from my classmate, this time it was Jake Moy as my piano accompaniment. I chose to sing "A whole new world" from the Disney musical "Aladdin". As mentioned before, singing songs from musicals are a good practice for vocalists, it trains a vocalist's projection skills and head voice skills.

farahalia1510 — 2024-08-01 04:59:29 UTC

I decided to work more on my vocals when it comes to singing songs from musicals. Today, I have practiced my pitching accuracy by singing "Colors of the wind" from the Disney musical "Pocahontas".

farahalia1510 — 2024-08-01 05:00:12 UTC

Previously in week 7, I have mentioned about working on my enunciations by singing "Almost There" by Anika Noni Rose. Today, I decided to test myself again by singing the same song to further see if i had improved on it.

farahalia1510 — 2024-08-01 05:06:09 UTC

I decided to learn this song called "autumn" by the band Couch. This song has helped me a lot in understanding my own vocals skills. I am very used to singing upbeat and louder songs, so it is good to try slower ballad songs.

Sinaran

farahalia1510 — 2024-08-01 05:40:22 UTC