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LESSON 2

DON't STOP ME NOW

STEP 1.

Vocal warm up is getting longer

STEP 2.

Listen to the original song

LISTEN TO THE SONG AND TRY TO THINK OVER

THESE QUESTIONS

1. Words. Listen and understand how text matches music.

2. Melody. Wide register and high expression, how to achieve these?

3. Rhythm. How rock rhythm is different from others?

4. Energy. Think, what are the sources of energy are hidden in music of this song.

5. What would be most difficult for you in this piece?

6. How is original song different from our arrangement?

STEP 3.

Have a look at the score

LET'S START TO WORK WITH THE SCORE

1. Play the video. Look and listen. Recognize your part.

2. Think about the song's structure. How many parts are there. Are there repeats, how many?

3. See, what your voice part and other parts do. How do voices functions change: who sings melody, harmony, bass in different parts of the song.

4. Sing your part together with a video in this slow tempo, follow the notes and text and try to fit in.

5. Remember about some divisions in parts that we made.

STEP 4.

Rehearse in voices

You will still hear other voices quietly on the background, it will help to keep things together.

SOPRANO LINE 1

CHECK YOUR PART SEPARATELY FROM OTHER VOICES

1. Play the video. Look and listen.

2. Play again, follow your own "stemma" and check mistakes.

3. Mark and remember the places to breath between phrases.

4. Rehearse, untill you remember your notes right.

5. Remember division places and sing own voice right.

MIDDLE VOICES line 2

BOYS DIVISI LINE 4

STEP 5.

Final performance

LET'S SING THE SONG AGAIN AND ADD TO IT SOME SPARK

1. This time I added piano part to final performance.

Look, how voices interact with piano part and make it as in one band.

2. I changed the tempo in parts of this song. Concentrate and keep tempo and rhythm.

3. Control your voice that it would sound in tune.

3. Think and add some musical details. Imagine how it starts lyrically and quietly, then develops and goes passionately, think how the ending of the song should sound like.

4. Sing again and again, till things go smoothly and you admit the work is done and it is time to enjoy.

5. Try to think about this song as one piece and try to perform it as "one complete take". Think about energy level and how will we make it together in the future.