Journey of Growth - Album of Song Covers

I see Personal Project as a huge opportunity for me to be able to develop the current passions I have. When presented with this opportunity, I knew exactly what I wanted my project to be correlated with. I was always aware of the project we would be working on when we entered tenth grade, and to be honest, I had already started thinking about what I wanted my project to be before the school year even began. I knew that I wanted it to be something that had to do with further improving my passion and skills in singing because music, in general, has always been involved in my life for as long as I can remember. No one in my family is particularly a professional or in other words a professional singer but they all have introduced me to different genres of music, instruments, artists, and other of the music world. I grew up listening to a variety of artists that I still look up to this day. I find peace in singing and listening to music and without a shadow of a doubt, I knew that I would be making a project connected to music, particularly to something I’m really passionate about and that is singing. The evolution of music the past decade or so is amusing to me. I’m constantly curious about other singers and how they perform. I’d break down each of my favorite singers and incorporate their approaches into my own singing. With my Personal Project, I want to be able to portray the different colors and tones I can sing in through different types of songs. As peaceful as it is for me to sing, I still am aware of my limits and areas I need to improve on, and for that very reason, I will be using Person Project as an opportunity to break those boundaries and to further improve my skills in singing. My learning goal for this project is to learn the correct singing techniques and to create professionally recorded songs.

Product Goal

I would like to take this opportunity to create a project I have never attempted on, to further break my boundaries and learn new techniques, and along with that to also to create something that would show how much I’ve improved in terms of my techniques. So, with all that considered, my goal for this project is to be able to know my limits and to then push myself to and through those limits to further improve my singing skills. To showcase my improvement, I will be creating an album cover of 7 different types of songs for my product. Choosing the songs for my album cover was not easy but I knew I had to challenge myself and challenging myself would mean going out of my comfort zone. I chose songs that are out of my comfort zone in order for me to explore and discover more about myself when it comes to singing. I want to be able to show feelings and convey the meaning behind each and every one of the songs, as I feel that that element is one of the most important components in a song.

Reflection

Choosing this project was an amazing experience as it made me realize and learn a lot of new knowledge regarding singing and creating songs in general as well as the small important details that I did not know prior. To my surprise, I learnt so many new techniques from the vocal lessons I attended that really helped me in finding the right tones to sing in and healthy placements to sing in as well. In comparison to how I used to sing, I definitely sing a lot healthier for my vocal chords and it sounds better as well due to the fact that I found the different placements to sing in for different types of tones. Not only did the learning process help me a lot but the recording and creating of the product helped so much as I had to experiment with my own voice to get to sound like different sounds and voices. It wasn’t an easy process, but it was an eye opening experience for me, and that is really important as I wish to maybe take on this singing path for my future career as well. I learnt along the way how much someone can express through singing and music and the importance of putting feelings into these types of things so that the audience who are listening can really feel and understand the message to be conveyed. Prior to this project, I never really had the confidence to sing especially in front of other people, but this project has given me that extra push and experience to be more confident in my skills and put myself out there in terms of singing. I am really thankful for all the knowledge and experience I’ve been able to extract from this project and grateful that I did choose this project to work on in the beginning of this school year.

Product Evaluation

My product was an album of song covers that consisted of 7 different songs. Within the album, there are different tones and types of songs that helped portray the different voices and feelings I can now sing in. In the process of researching for this project, I was able to find out the different techniques to use to sing in a healthier way and range and I was thankfully able to put to use those techniques in the creation of this product. In the process of this product I made sure to go back to the criteria I had created for myself in the beginning of this project to make sure that at the end of everything I will be able to spot each and every one of the criteria in my product. I would say that the standards I have created for myself were not easy to reach but at the end everything worked out. I am very proud of each and everyone of the recorded cover songs and happy that I was able to explore my voice and find out my limits and even break through some of them to have a better voice. Each of the songs I have picked really give a different vibe and feelings to make sure that I will be able to challenge myself in that area. Listening to the whole album will give different perspectives of my voice. The creation of this product helped me gather new knowledge that has impacted my voice and the way I sing in the best possible way for my future as well.