Vocal Methods is a class designed to improve student's pitch matching abilities, ability to work within a group, and development of general understanding of music reading and performance. Vocal methods class is held during the Spring semester. A year-long, after-school choral group meets on Wednesday. The focus of this group is to learn pitch matching, phrasing, blending, enunciation, etc.
Week of 2/2/26-2/6/26
We are beginning to use a new resource for our beginning bell ringer. This resource will help us take what we have learned about warming up and breathing to the next level.
Last week we were planning to try out some new songs with a "space" theme. Space will be the theme of our Spring Concert on April 30. We will use these pieces to learn how to read directions in music, move between head and chest voices, enunciate word endings, and much more.
Due to icy conditions and being out of school 3 days last week, we do not yet have 2 pieces of our "space" music, so we will continue to work on "In the Arms of An Oak," "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing," and "The Moon." We are discussing rhythms, subdivision, and syncopation, and demonstrating these concepts through singing.