Solo Progress 25/06/23

 Today I recorded a final progression audio file of my song so that I could see how much progress I had made over time before my moc run. Personally, compared to my last recording a bit of an improvement has happened, especially in my diction. If you were to look back to my recording from the 22nd, you can hear that my articulation and diction has improved slightly, which has been aided by the warmups that I have been doing to improve this. Overall, in comparison to my first ever recording a massive improvement has been made on the diction.

Some examples of the warmups are tongue twisters and general mouth warm ups like pretending to eat a toffee.

Along with this, although it cannot be seen in the video, I have been doing some research when it comes to my stage presence and have been trying to improve it in my spare time, this also includes adding more character to how I'm singing. This can be heard very clearly through what I'm singing as I am starting to add more character and tone changes to fit the song and what it is talking about.

Song name	From the start
Artist	Laufey
Genre	Jazz
Warm up total time (minutes)	5 mins
Describe the range of activities below. You should include the duration of each exercise, reasons/justifications for selection and any changes/additions you make to the plan as time goes on (this could be effectively shown using different colours).   **Feel free to add or delete activity numbers as you see fit.**
Activity 1	Breathing exercises, in – hold - out
Activity 2	Holding “sss” note
Activity 3	Tongue twisters
Activity 4	Me – may – mi – mo – moo

 

How effective was your warm up plan? Reflect upon the process in order to make your future warm ups more effective.

Personally, I found this warmup to effectively warm up my voice before singing my song, as they help warm up each element of my voice whilst also serving as exercises that will help develop some of my skills like diction, breath control and articulation. So personally, I feel that this warmup was quite effective in warming up and prepping my voice for singing.