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// THIS WEEK'S PRACTICE LOG#17 & 18: //

=**//SOLFEGE CHROMATIC HAND SIGNS:ASCENDING & DESCENDING//**=

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**Use the “Online Metronome:** [] to help you practice keeping an even beat while singing through warm-ups and/or solfege. Practice singing “nyeh” and ”nyah” feeling the tone placed in the region of the nose. (You will feel a slight buzzing sensation if you touch the side of your nose as the sound resonates.)
 * Keeping voices healthy for singing:**

//__ You are required to practice 60 minutes a week - which breaks down to 8 minutes a day! __//
 * VOCAL PRACTICE TIPS: **



__**1st Rule**__ ~ DRINK PLENTY OF WATER!

__**2nd Rule**__ ~ Hum through your songs at home as you practice them to practice moving through your different voice registers. Try to have a tall space inside your mouth as you hum. Make sure your jaw is relaxed, and touch the side of your nose to make sure you feel the vibrations.

**__3rd Rule__** ~ When you move into singing the words make sure your jaw is still relaxed, you have a tall space inside your mouth, and you feel vibrations on the side of your nose through many of the words.

Use Vocal Mastery to help you warm up.
 * Warm Up:**

Continue to practice **solfege**, singing the pitches while you sign the hand signs. Practice “interval” singing by singing through the scale by step, but choosing one tone to skip on your way up and when coming back down. This is a great way to begin training your ear to hear how intervals sound. Think forward tone placement as you sing; loud consonants for each syllable will help with this.
 * Solfege:**

Put one hand on your lower abdomen and the back of one hand on the upper side of your ribs. Stand tall (straight against a wall for a self-check) and take a breath that feels low in your abdomen. Your hand on your lower abdomen can check for the low breath. Practice this breathing as you sing through scales and your songs. Then use “spinning hands”, or “pulling scarfs from your mouth to help you USE your air as you sing through scales and notes that you hold in your songs.
 * For breathing:**

Practice counting the rhythms in any one of your concert songs or from your text book! Remember, practicing isn't all singing!
 * Counting Rhythms:**

