Week 2: Finding Your Voice

Finding Your Voice Through Four-Part Harmony

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Tonight's Lesson

• Posture

• Breathing

• Vocal Posture

• Starting you tone (onset)

• Continue 'Hey Jude'

• Introduce 'You've Got a Friend in Me'

Workbook

Simple breathing exercises

1. Hangover from your waist and take a breath and feel your stomach drop into your hands. Now, exhale slowly, like you’re blowing out a candle on the ground and feel your stomach pulling in towards your body. Drop, breathe, exhale, repeat.
   
   
2. Shhhh, fffff, ssssss: feel the engagement of air through those syllable sounds! What is your stomach doing?
   
   

Healthy Singing Posture

Vocal Posture: Lift your face!

Onset of Tone

• Hard:    Glottal
• Soft:      Aspirate
• Clean:   Balanced

"Al can eat an apple almost every day

1, 3, 2, 4, 3, 5, 4, 2, 1, 7, 1 

Reflection

What's one thing that already feels easier? 

Practice This Week

• Listen to your learning tracks each day.

• Practice 10–15 minutes whenever you can.

• Bring your questions next Monday.

Learning

We will learn the following tag

Ice Cream 
Tag

Performance

Saturday, September 19th 2:00 pm 

Ice Cream Social - Pirate’s Paradise! 🎵 Perform for family and friends! Tickets free, donations accepted at the door. 

The Oceanaires will be singing 6 songs by themselves. You will be invited to join The Oceanaires on stage for the three Summer Sing songs! 

Summer Song Repertoire: 

1. Hey, Jude 
2. You Got a Friend in Me 
3. Ghost Riders in the Sky

Costume for Ice Cream Social: PIRATE! 

As elaborate as you wish to go, but could be as simple as black pants and a white shirt!