Stay With Me | Lesson 20

In the previous two lessons we had worked out the harmonies in both verses and the choruses, so this lesson we needed to work out the bridge and finish the song. We then need to assign different parts of the song to everyone and to a run-through of the whole song. Before rehearsing the song we did a warm up with the keyboard. We decided to sing our arpeggios since we have previously sung our scales. Doing the arpeggios warm up helped us when singing leaps in the ensemble song as challenged our vocal ranges. Once we had completed the warm up we did a run-through of the song up to the bridge of the song due to us not having worked it out yet.

When doing the run-through of the song with what we knew, we made sure we stopped at the places we found a little difficult or the places that we messed up to make sure we knew what we were singing. The bridge of the song is quite simple as we only have to sing "oh" to a certain melody. The challenging part of the bridge was finding the right high harmony to go along with it. We finally found the correct harmony and rehearsed that a few times on its own and along with the melody. Once we thought the bridge sounded good and the last chorus worked well, we started to assign parts to each other.

The first verse we decided would be myself and Amelia. Amelia will sing the melody and I will sing the high harmony along with her. Then all of us will sing the chorus with our assigned harmonies. Then Evie and Maddie will sing the second verse with Evie singing the melody and Maddie singing the high harmony. Evie and Amelia will sing the melody in the bridge and myself and Maddie will sing the high harmony. Then after the bridge Evie is going to sing the chorus first with me singing my harmony in the second line, Maddie joining in with her harmony in the third line and Amelia joining in with her harmony on the last line. Then all of us will come together with all of our harmonies to sing the last chorus and end the song.

We did a run-through of the whole song with our assigned parts and harmonies and agreed that it sounded good. We all agreed that we just need to rehearse our parts separately and come together too rehearse in our next lesson on the ensemble piece.