My first solo song is 'I Dreamed A Dream' from Les Miserables, and this will be my notated piece. I had access to a Les Miserables Piano sheet music book, so I used the piece of music for 'I Dreamed A Dream' when rehearsing the song. I knew this song would be challenging to sing due to the well known crescendo in the middle of the song.
The first thing I did, before rehearsing the song, is warm up my vocal cords by using some of the warm up technique Amelia and I demonstrated in our warm up video. We used the siren technique (projecting our voice as high as we could go and down as far as we could) because we knew it would help both of us in our songs. This technique worked well for me as it could help me reach the high notes in the song and also help towards the crescendo in the song. Once the warm up was over, I moved straight onto rehearsing the song.
I found a backing track on YouTube and used the sheet music to help me sing the correct notes in the song. I already knew the lyrics before choosing the song, so I didn't need to worry about getting the lyrics correct which meant I could purely focus on the notes of the song and the leaps contained in it. I did a run through of the song so I knew what parts sounded good, and what parts needed a bit more work. With the run-through I realized that I was hitting the high notes in the song well, and also I was singing the low notes well. However, I wanted to make sure it sounded perfect, so I kept going through the notes I wasn't too sure on. Such as the low note in "When they tear your hope apart" and the crescendo.
I also decided I needed a new backing track because the backing track I used ended quite abruptly and I wanted something slow so I could build some emotional impact in the song.
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