Katherine Whitney Workshop Take away

The 4 Levels of Attention

These apply to any musical learning and are in order from least to most significant. It gives focus to our personal rehearsal goal.

Singular attention: Block everything else out. Does not allow for reasoned choice in relation to the

chord

Divided attention: Reading the music resulting in less physically relaxed, less confidence, less connectiveness to the body and group)

Focussed Attention: The critical thinking. What are the next words, am I in tune. Result is loss of relaxation and therefore musicality. This should be avoided if at all possible by familiarity with the music. This can be helped by doing something unrelated while singing (tie shoe, turn pages unrelated to the rehearsing song)

Executive Attention: Putting attention into thinking about the body. Your breaking, your tension points

to relax, vowel shaping, dynamic control through supporting the breath.

Practice Agenda

September 17

Sorry for the delay in the Mp3 files. Should be up in a few days.
Great sound and energy this evening. It is helpful to keep our alignement and breath working for us through an evening. Don't forget to bring a water bottle for hydration.

We will be warming up to some resonance activity. Remember to keep the tone forward and keep the tongue set in place.

Antiphonal Gloria ms 42-61
Cheryl
Hark the Herald to ms 46
Break
Carols Around to ms 66
Cheryl
Frozen ms 18-83

September 10

So thrilled with last week. It was great to work with all of you again! Well begun is 1/2 done.

Refer to the tab above "Sequenced voice building self assessment" by Dr Phil Grant. We looked at the alignment, breath and onset of sound. We will continue with breath support, tone and tongue postion.

6:45 Gather, greet, get and/or organize music for the evening.
7:00 Warm up (as above with interval and chord creation.)
7:15 Antiphonal Gloria (Divide into two groups and begin the learning process.
7:30 Still Still Still
7:45 Snow Day Please have the PDF downloaded and printed.

Break

8:15 Frozen suite
8:30 Somewhere in my Memory
8:45 Hallelujah ms 34-47 review 1-37

September 3rd
6:45 Welcome back! Distribute music for the season.

7:00Warm up: Breath, alignment, vocal placement. Chord building

Hearth and Fire
Behold that Star
Hark the Herald

Break

Antiphonal Gloria
Sweet Silent Night (Cheryl)
Hallelujah