Today, we have exactly two weeks until we have to perform our duets and Grease routine in the showcase, going towards our final grades for BTEC Musical Theatre.
Today, Jess and I spent 20 minutes with Kim. We ran through our chosen song, I dreamed a dream so that Kim could listen, picking our parts we needed to improve on and add too. Kim suggested we used harmonies with in the song, to contrast our voices and hopefully increase our overall grade we come out with. Adding harmonies makes the duet more challenging for both participents, which will bring the possiblily of a top grade with in our reach if we pull them off.
We decided to use harmonies of the lines;
And still I dream he'll come to me
That we will live the years together
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms we cannot weather
As my voice is naturally a couple of notes lower than Jess's, I sing the lower parts and Jess singings the higher parts. We do this by singing the same line at the same time however, changing notes, to add effect and to increase the difficulty of the song.
There is one line I was struggling with today as the top note that I have to hit is just on the note where my voice breaks from my chest voice in to head voice. If is stretch the note, I can reach it however it doesnt sound as good as it could do with more vocal training. I can't change my range as we only have two weeks until the performance, so Kim has agree wit us to take the song down half a key, a very tiny bit so I can reach the note, sounding professional.
This session with Kim has been beneficial due to the fact Jess and I have had a chance to tidy up the song and work out who is to sing which harmony parts, something that is more appropriote to a duet than singing it straight.
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