Session 9 - NOTES ONLY
Admin! Lots of admin; took quite a while. (all v. busy; difficult - nay, impossible - to find a day to suit everybody for next session)
- Kathy warm-up: Funge (Nigerian). legs clap / click clap / cross arms clap / head clap
{Certainly displacement; fun - brain gym to an extent? Wish I could remember the song for a start!}
- Sandra warm-up:
"Coffee and tea, coffee's much stronger than tea - wise men should leave it alone for it makes them skin and bone. Better by far to be simply a drinker of tea!" - long, teach in small parts. (Hand signals for pitch) --> all sing with eyes closed to remember; subconsciously actually memorised it w/o realising. Much more in time when sang w/ eyes closed; I still used hand signals anyway - muscle memory useful! - but not actually necessary. {OHRWURM!!! I now often annoy my sister by singing it!}
Songs:
- Ruth: Freedom; learned M + 3H --> musicality, turn into a piece. Dynamics, rhythm / timing {groove?} oh | yes | I | know (tenuto ma detaché)
V. IMPORTANT: notes into music! (Freedom - Mandela / Westminster; Paul sang!) All performed to each other: inc. facial expressions, moving in time (not quite dancing, but swaying might cover it), etc. Good fun, and nice piece too.
{Hand signals for pitch very useful. Also, personally: more subtle to finger notes as if on vln or vla; v. useful if slightly odd. Not sure best technique as when 'performing' it to each other, not really appropriate, then found it a little more difficult. Fascinating/strange? Need another method!!!}
- Malcolm: from Guinea; call and response. (Really can't remember it, sorry.)
*For next time: a piece to develop from taught to sung musically.