New student today – welcome!

• Warm up – breathing
• Hissing – longest hiss
• Circle massage warm up – release tension, build trust in group.
• hum – chew the hum
• Open hum to different vowel sounds and back
• Eh Ee Ay o oo
• range sighs – up and down
• Consonants – repeat after me.
• d drd drmrd drmfmrd drmfsfmrd
• Sight Singing book –
• review #1, 2, 3
• New – #4 tick tock – focus on consonants – staccatto – short
• reinforce tonic and dominant relationship – a little shakey – must further reinforce tomorrow.
• new #5 prum pum pum – much better
• #7 new syllable “mi” between do and sol
• prior knowledge – Solfeggio – opening do mi sol do`
• Exercise 7 – shakey because of rhythms – work more on rhythms in future. – use percussion to help?
• Solfeggio – worked on beginning section and melody
• Chord at beginning sounds shakey – Alto’s (group 2) seem unsure – find right mix of experience for second group.
• Began working on harmony part with second group.

Ran out of time today.  Tomorrow I should start with Solfeggio and mix up groups.  Have everyone be able to sing every part so that we learn from each other and find strengths.