hey!

Please remember all the support stuff we did today! See, I am NOT kidding when I say we don't have support. It is really NO use if only a few of us do it and the rest of you don't. Sec Ones(or anyone else) if you guys still don't get the support thing, please come and tell Grace/me personally and we will work things out. Please. It is really important and it is scary that at this stage almost half of the section is not singing with support at all! Come on, I am already stepping down in a month's time, don't disappoint me, ok?

That being said, please DO your abs exercises! They really help. Trust me. Please be dilligent and not slack. What is the use of practising the songs over and over again when you cannot even sing well because you don't have the basic techniques. Don't tell me you don't know what the basic techniques are because we have been telling you the same things over and over again. You just have to FOCUS and PRACTISE(the techniques, I mean) everyday till you get it.

In case you really don't know what techniques I am talking about:

1. BREATHE!!!!!!!!!!! You breathe all the way in, till you can feel your ribs expanding SIDEWAYS. YOUR CHEST DO NOT RISE UP. You should be able to feel your lower abodomen expanding too.. Remember all the air column thing we did?

2. Posture! Your legs should be SHOULDER_WIDTH apart, not as if you are going do do splits or you are going to march. Body alightment! Your weigth should be at the BALLS of your feet, NOT heels. You must be able to feel the centre of gravity. Look, the centre of gravity is technically speaking, a non-existent thing. You have to imagine that it is there and it exists. You have to imagine it like a heavy anchor, anchoring your body and your sound. Usually, I just imagine it like an arrow, and it is going downwards, getting really heavy and anchoring my body plus the sound.

3. Facial expressions. Eyebrows lifted, cheeks lifted. Need I say more?

4. Palete. Your hard palete and soft plaete. Just imagine the pear. You have to have a LOT of space at the back of your...... mouth? It is like, the space there is the air which pushes the sound out, but the air DOES NOT come out itself! Then, when you sing, you should be able to feel the sound hitting your HARD palete(roof of mouth) and you will have a vibration, ringing sensation. If you don't, it means the sound is either too far back, or it is just too airy.

5.Air. Look, when you breathe, you take in air right? But do you let them out? OF COURSE. Duh, if not you will just die, with all the build of of waste products and what not. HOWEVER. You do not let them out while you are singing! The air is there to support the sound and push it out, not come out with it! This really takes a lot of practise for the weaker ones and well, if you are strong, you know what I mean right? I mean, it is the feeling... the sensation.... One way to tell you are airy is to put your hand in front of you, about 5-7cm away from your face and sing. Actually, once you get this nice ringing tone, it means it is not airy. However, if you do not, focus on what you are singing and you have to breathe in nice and deep and imagine the air columun thing, supporting the sound out. SUPPORT, is to help to keep the air circulating so that it won't rush out together with your notes( which a lot of you are doing so.) Be very clear and sure of what you are singing. You can just practise at home with solfledge.

6.THINK!!! I am sure we can all sing but don't be a bimbo, please. I know you guys are not bimbos but, you guys are not using your brains to think! Think before you sing, think of how you are going to sing, think of how you SHOULD sing. and think of how to acheive that, whether is it a more bright sound. Of course if people keeps saying that you have NO support whatsoever, THINK.. Think of what you are doing wrong and what to change, how, to make it better. Some of you are really funny, I told you countless times you have no support, and you tell me that you know it and know how to sing it correctly.... You made NO change at all! NO, if people tell you you are singing wrongly, then obviously what you were doing before is wrong and hence it is time to change, no?

7. Discipline, Self discipline. Honestly, I am really dissappointed in the seniors. How can you be talking and chatting away? No wonder the sec ones were also talking because of you guys. Since we already know ourselves that we are weak, the more we shouldn't be talking when the conductor is conducting other sections! Instead, we should be looking for alternatives to be stronger and improving ourselves. By the way, do you know that whenever you laugh and whatever, all the support you had before hand, how to do it and stuff will be gone because your brain wil forget and your muscles won't remember. So the only way is just to.......... have self discipline which also self awareness means you know when you are airy. sharp. out of tune........ etc


That is all for now. Those of you who didn't come for any choir practices and haven't givent me the letters should get it done ASAP. FYE, you only have one week dateline to hand in the MCs/letters.


P.S Sorry if there are weird stuff here because I was typng crap(PW and all that crazy stuff) becaise I am so tired...............