I thought, a great way to share the skill that I'd learnt over the week would be, to teach a vocal class. I've taught a vocal class before, but I've never felt confident with it, I've always felt like I don't know what I'm doing, so going into this, I was a little wary.
Luckily for me, I knew everyone in the class, that made things a lot easier for me.
Before going in, I went over what I had picked up over the week and what I've been taught by my vocal coach. I knew what I wanted to teach, I'd picked up a few warm ups while doing the musical I was in, and I wanted to teach them to the class. I thought of the easiest way to teach it so everyone could pick it up easily.
Going into the class was a lot less nerve wracking that I thought it was going to be, knowing everyone definitely helps. I figured I'd stick to the normal lesson plan and start with breathing exercises.
After we had done breathing exercises, I lead everyone through some stretches and warm ups for our mouths.
Luckily for me, I knew everyone in the class, that made things a lot easier for me.
Before going in, I went over what I had picked up over the week and what I've been taught by my vocal coach. I knew what I wanted to teach, I'd picked up a few warm ups while doing the musical I was in, and I wanted to teach them to the class. I thought of the easiest way to teach it so everyone could pick it up easily.
Going into the class was a lot less nerve wracking that I thought it was going to be, knowing everyone definitely helps. I figured I'd stick to the normal lesson plan and start with breathing exercises.
After we had done breathing exercises, I lead everyone through some stretches and warm ups for our mouths.
After we finished doing the stretches and mouth warm ups, I began to teach them the warm up exercise I learnt. The phase is 'Bella Señora' and it's set to a melody that helps your range, control, diction and pitch, the key goes up after each round. One of the guys in the class is one of my best friends so he already knew it, but everyone else picked it up pretty quickly, and some even harmonized with others, it sounded beautiful!!
At the end of the warm up, I felt really good about the response I got from everyone, everyone was happy with the new warm up and they said they had fun doing it. It was a challenge, but a fun challenge!! After doing this, I feel a lot more confident with teaching. Usually when I'm asked to lead something, I don't want to do it because I feel like I don't know what I'm doing, but planning it before hand and being positive really helped.
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