Week Three

Breathing exercises

1. Breathing in for 4 and releasing for 6
2. Breathing in for 6 and releasing on 4
3. Breathing in for 2 and releasing on 4
4. Breathing in for 6 and releasing on 2
5. Months of the year- breathing in for 6 and saying the months of the year until you run out of breath

Warming the vocal chords up

1. Breathing in for 4 and releasing with an "ooo"
2. Breathing in for 4 and releasing with an "ahhh"
3. Breathing in for 6 and releasing with and "ooo"
4. Breathing in for 6 and releasing with and "ahhh"
5. Breathing in for 4 and releasing with an "ooo" then opening out to a "ahhh"
6. Breathing in for 4 and releasing doing a serine noise which comes from the back of the throat
7. Breathing in for 4 and releasing to do a scale with an "ahhh" sound

Strengths -

• showed us how good or bad our knowledge was on breath control, and how it was useful to warm up the vocal chords
• we got to figure out how to make certain sounds and where they come from
• doing the months of the year really helped figure out how good our own breath control was

Weakness -

• not everyone in the class joined into the noises as they might of been embarrassed
• not everyone got the concept of not breathing in when doing the months of the year