At grade 9, students are starting to change their voices, so their range and singing voice will change. They will be applying their elements of music knowledge in this activity to help them expand their voice and be comfortable with their new voice. With the warmup song “Do-Re-Mo-Re” to get the students to do some vocalization, working with pitches and range. It is a good way for students to practice their solfège as well, with the primary lyrics being the solfège names. Here is a link to the warmup:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq7W8rtU6x4&ab_channel=Gessica%7CTheSpiritualCantor In addition to this song, students are going to be adding on with different add ons to help with different aspects of an optimal warm up like different ranges, big jumps between notes, and more! This would be added on the fly. To prepare for this warmup song, students will first begin with some relaxation, breathing and phonation exercises to prepare the voice. The lesson begins with some relaxation exercises like stretching the body, so students are relaxed and ready for some singing! After some stretches, the teacher is going to do some SOVT exercises and the students with follow. In addition, students are going to do some phonation exercises like chewing and humming loudly. Once the students are prepared, we are going to get into the activity. Stretches would include stretches like:
Students will start with some lip trills on a sliding pitch to help with range. After these 2 exercises, students will be given the opportunity to do their own short warm up with the class. Potential warmups could include:
To start, students are going to be learning about the expanding voice and the importance of practicing your range and having a good warmup for your voice. By going through the previous warm up they did, students are going through the 5-step optimal warm up for their voices. Students learn about the 5 steps (Relaxation, alignment, breathing, phonation, vocalization, and sung exercises) Students will be told about the importance of warming up for adolescents. The teacher will inform students about the important points of a warmup for adolescents.
To start, the teacher is going to start off first with singing out the warmup song first for the students in a clear and concise manner. The students will probably be a little confused at first since it is going to be a new song for them, so we will go through it phrase by phrase so that the students are familiar with the notes/ pitch of the song. The students will be split into 4 groups and they’re to sing the following notes according to their groups: Group 1: Do-Re-Mi-Re Group 2: Mi-Fa-So-Fa Group 3: So-La-Ti-La All Together (on respective parts) Group 4: Do-Do-Ti-Do, Do-Ti-La-Ti-Do Do-Ti-La-So-Fa-Mi- Re Do The Teacher will go through each part together with everyone, the students will sing along with the teacher each time they are going through the different group melodies. The first group will go first, singing their part around 2-3 times. This will happen to all the groups, so they are familiar with the notes. Then, the students are going to start singing together! Group 1 will go first, singing through their part twice before the next group and then the same for the rest of the groups. If it falls apart, it is okay! Just reassure them that it is ok and start again. The point is for them to get comfortable with these notes and the pitches. Once the students are comfortable with the parts and are doing well altogether, then the teacher can change it up by changing the groups so that they all have different parts again! Remind each group of their parts again, because they will get confused about what it is since they were so focused on their previous parts! Do these 2 more times so that they can try all the different parts. If students can comfortably do their parts, we may make this more difficult by re-arranging the groups once again. Once this has happened, students will now sing it once again, but they will also make the solfège symbols with their hands as well. The teacher will go through this once through first before they start singing, the teacher will also do the symbols along with the students as well. References/ Resources: Further warmup exercises: https://spiritualcantor.com/fun-warmups-vocalists/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq7W8rtU6x4&ab_channel=Gessica%7CTheSpiritualCantor https://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/secondary/arts910curr2010.pdf
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