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Level 1

  Lesson 13/18  Collaborating and Ensemble Skills - Can you?

  • Work together to prepare your performance

  • Identify trouble spots and offer solutions for a consistent performance?

  • Use eye contact and body language to lead and communicate in a song?

  Lesson 01/18  Pitch - Can you?

  • Describe at least 3 ways to warm up before singing?

  • Explain the purpose of each warm up?

  • Sing a major scale and broken chord?

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Choose 2 contrasting songs for your performance

  Lesson 02/18  Rhythm - Can you?

  • Demonstrate your sense of pulse by conducting along to songs in 3 time, and 4 time?

  • Use bars and beats to cue your vocal entry? (count when to start)

  • Sing with an emphasis on the strong beats to convey meaning in the lyrics?

Time Signature playlist - link

  Lesson 03/18  Phrasing - Can you?

  • Plan where to breathe in a musical phrase?

  • Play with the timing and rhythm of a phrase to ‘make it your own’?

  • Use accents to words and syllables convey your lyrics effectively?

  Lesson 04/18  Breathing - Can you?

  • Feel your abdominal muscles engage on the out breath (singing)?

  • Use a 'recoil' / relax IN breath?

  • Find a neutral alignment for your posture?

  Lesson 05/18  Diction & Articulation - Can you?

  • Use warm up tongue twisters to loosen your articulators?

  • Refine your consonants to make the lyrics clear?​

  • Over enunciate for dramatic effect in your song (where appropriate)?

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Diction - Playlist

  Lesson 06/18  Vocal Health & Consolidation - Can you?

  • Complete the Debut grade exercises?

  • Use the skills from previous classes to perform a given song (Hot Chocolate) with confidence? (timing, breathing, phrasing and diction)

  • identify do's and don'ts for vocal health?

Look ahead: Using the function band set list; choose a song for yourself and suggest one for another singer in the group​

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  Lesson 07/18  SOVT - Can you?

  • Perform the Debut Grade technical exercises?

  • Use SOVT exercises to warm up and work on tricky spots in your song?

  • Select repertoire based on suitability of audience and voice strengths?​

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  Lesson 08/18  Timbre - Can you?

  • Recognise and describe differences in timbres you can hear?

  • Alter the shape of your vocal tract to change the timbre of your voice?

  • Make creative decisions within your own chosen piece to vary your timbre for effect?

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  Lesson 09/18  Dynamics - Can you?

  • Sing quietly whilst maintaining a consistent pitch and timbre (tone)?

  • Sing loudly without straining and constricting?

  • Use dynamics to vary your vocal performance?

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  Lesson 10/18  Onsets - Can you?

  • Demonstrate two different onsets?

  • Select and apply onsets for effect within your song?

  • Identify different onsets by ear?

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  Lesson 11/18  Adding Harmony - Can you?

  • Identify the melody line shape?

  • Maintain a harmony on a chord tone?

  • Match your tone and phrasing to the lead singer?

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  Lesson 12/18  Lead Vs Backing Vocals - Can you?

  • Consolidate prior vocal elements within your lead singing?

  • Maintain your harmony part within someone else's song?

  • Design simple movements to complement the lead singer's performance?

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  Lesson 13/18  Collaborating and Ensemble Skills - Can you?

  • Work together to prepare your performance

  • Identify trouble spots and offer solutions for a consistent performance?

  • Use eye contact and body language to lead and communicate in a song?

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  Lesson 14/18  Vowels - Can you?

  • Use 'singing' vowels for consistent tone?

  • Identify vowel modification by ear in existing performances?

  • Find and use singing vowels in your own song choices? â€‹

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