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4/6/17
4:30-5:45
Conductor Tiffany Bowen
Rehearsal set-up:
There are about 4 rows of chairs, a black board, piano and stand are at the
front of the room
Description of procedures:
Warm-up
Review of positions
o Sit in position 1
o Sit in position 2 tell me what Im looking for when I say position 2
Students raise their hands and tell Ms. Bowen what they think
Ahh siren
o What song do we use this vowel in?
Students raise their hands and tell songs that they use the ah
vowel
Practice speaking the text with appropriate vowel and then
singing it
Eh vowel
o All Day use Ah and Eh vowels
Ch Echoing
o Reminders about positions
Roll your shoulders
Lots of talking about behavior and reminders about expectations
Focus on vowel sounds
Song 1 (lullaby)
Running through the song
Go over proper performance posture and facial expressions
Talk about dynamics dont decrescendo too early
All the pretty little horses
Reminder of position
Ill sing it first and you sing after
Behavior correction as necessary
Visual reminders while teacher is singing
Echo singing to review notes
Models phrase without breathing, students echo
Go over lyrics, make sure students know what the words are
Behavior reminders again
Posture reminders
Sing staccato, sing legato
Singing along with students
Home on the range
Going over form of the song
Letters for verse and chorus as visual reminders
Reminders about proper vocal technique
Practice entrance for song
Reminder about position 2
Make it sound beautiful
Couple of wanderers
Trying to fix deer and the antelope leap because students are pulling their
chest voice higher
Kinesthetic movement to accompany leap
Working on fermatas eye contact
Think about vowel in all
Complimenting students who are doing a good job with posture and eye
contact