Vocals With Elise Witt

Type of Lesson:

            In depth vocal warm-up

Age Group:

            6-12^th grade

Time Period:

          Minimum of 15 minutes -  max of 2 hours

Materials Needed:

            None

Objectives:

          The student will acquire an ease of body and voice through the warm-up’s physicalizations.

National Goals:

• #2        -           The student will act by interacting in improvisation and assuming roles.
• #6                    -           The student will compare and integrate art forms by analyzing traditional theatre, dance, music, visual arts, and new art forms.

Procedure:

 

Floor Work:         

Relaxation and releasing into the floor.

Breath Awareness

Sighs developing into vocal exploration

Sound and color

Group Sigh – High to low / Low to high

Diaphragm discovery

Hissing out air

Release of muscle to allow air to come back in

“Catch breath” inhale is a release, Exhale is work

Power center in lower belly

 

Sound and Movement Exercises:

Spiral with a siren

Physical and vocal sigh – rolling body over with sound reflecting movement

 

Partner Graphics:

Finding breath in lower back

Milking arms

Brushing

Sighing over with fingers walking down the back

 

Vocal Warm Up:

Colors of Sound

Dark to light

        Ooh / oh/ ah / eh / ee

Use of Color palette

Ice skating exercise (5 oo’s then rise 1/2 step)

Diaphragm push ups (ha ha ha ha ha)

Wow (oo ah oo ah oo)

 

Vocal Notes:

Find the sound in the movement and the movement in the sound.

Find the breath in everything.

Check yourself during various activities and see where/if how you’re breathing.

Silence is as important and beautiful as sound.

Listen for the heartbeat, the rhythm in the sound and silence.

Unison singing is the coming together of everyone’s sound waves into one united wave.

Harmony singing is parallel and interweaving lines.

The sound of the ensemble is greater than the sum of its parts, i.e. individual voices.

A group sound is like a braid, made up of separate and distinct strands that weave together to make a new form, a new shape

Evaluation Method

           

            Students will be graded on their full concentration, participation, enthusiasm, and completion of activity.