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Subject: Re: [MK8] Performance Examples

From: Paula Scott

Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 21:44:38 -0500

My kids ask for Glorious all the time! Such a beautiful song!
On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 8:31 PM Sarah Latimer
wrote:
> Yes, I always do this before a performance! I put students in shoulder
> buddies for discussion and have them assign grades using our grading rubric
> for proper singing. I warn them that it's not about liking/not liking the
> song; it's about whether the singers are singing in a way that would be
> accurate for us to copy. After we discuss the grades they chose and what
> grade they SHOULD have chosen, I'll invite everyone to sing "Twinkle
> Twinkle" in a voice like the singer(s) we just watched. I usually secretly
> record these attempts and play them all back at the end of the lesson.
> (And somehow, year after year, many students are still surprised I managed
> to record them. Come on, I do this every year. :P ) I use the following
> four videos:
>
> --The Mahna Mahna Song (Muppets). Most students reflexively grade this
> one low. The ones who score it high are usually just confused with "I like
> this song/ I think it's funny" vs actual head voice singing. This is a
> good one for pointing out the type of voice that students will drop into
> when they are avoiding singing "high" notes, or just notes that they think
> are high. We call it monster voice. When a student is droning later on, I
> can remind them not to sing in monster voice.
>
> --Beaker singing "Feelings" (Muppets again). Students tend to grade him
> better on average. But this is classic squeaky / Mickey Mouse voice. I
> point out this is another mistaken attempt to sing higher notes. People
> get scared and squeeze/tighten everything and make this sound.
>
> --Chest voice / typical bad singing example: I'm not sharing the favorite
> video I actually use for this one in case I offend any individuals
> involved. Haha. I recommend searching "elementary school sings" and
> various incarnations of things like that and surf through different options
> posted on YouTube. Some are great, obviously-- but many are not at all
> great, which is what you're looking for. I use a random elementary school
> singing the national anthem at a ball game. I found one that sounds like
> the typical untrained horrid blob of voices but manages to stay mostly
> zoomed out from faces and I use that.
>
> --One Voice Children's Choir singing "Glorious". Even kids who don't like
> this type of music acknowledge it's a beautiful song with beautiful singing.
>
> After going through and grading and copying all of these examples, I will
> usually flip back and forth a few times between "Glorious" and the standard
> bad singing group. Most kids who initially thought the bad singers were
> pretty good slowly get more disgusted with them when directly contrasted
> over and over with a properly trained choir.
>
> ~*~*~*~*~
> Sarah Latimer
> Mansfield and Heard-Mixon Music
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> I am prepping half my kiddos for a December performance, and for 4th grade
> I'm tying in one of their standards about developing criteria for
> evaluating musical performances. Does anyone have a favorite youtube video
> of a group giving a "good" performance that I can show them and we can
> discuss? Or, any examples you like to use of "bad" performances as a
> contrast?
>
> Thanks!
> ~Ann in NC
>
> Ann Wells - annmusic7@gmail.com
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