Since we have finished the leaflet, we now need to choose some solo songs to perform. We needed two solo songs; One notated song and the other not. This means one song needed to be sung through the directions of sheet music and the other can be sung from a normal lyric sheet. The first song I wanted to find was the notated song as I knew that would the hardest song to find.
I was advised to choose a musical piece as it would show off my vocal abilities and also a musical piece would be fairly easy to find as sheet music. I looked through different books that were available to me and searched for songs that have been in musicals to get an idea of a song I could sing for my notated solo song. At first I thought about singing a 'Mamma Mia' song because I knew they would be up beat and they would challenge my voice slightly. With 'Mamma Mia' in mind I rehearsed 'The Name of the Game' to see how it suited my voice and whether I would find it challenging. When I sung the song I thought it suited my voice well and challenged my dynamics slightly, but I didn't like the instrumental breaks in the song. I couldn't find the song in sheet music, so I decided to find a new song.
I had previously sung 'On My Own' for another unit, so I really wanted to sing another 'Les Miserables' song. I asked my teacher and he advised me that I should choose another 'Les Miserables' as they challenged my voice and they were technically challenging. I decided to choose 'I Dreamed a Dream' because I knew it was hard a song to perfect, but I wanted to challenge myself. When rehearsing the song once over I realised the song was a good choice. I really liked the song, I knew the lyrics well and it was in my vocal range. It is challenging through the dynamics of the song and the emotion, so I decided I would do that song as my noted piece.
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