"Nothing's Gonna Harm You": To begin this lesson (27th March), we cut down a lot of "Nothing's Gonna Harm You". We felt that this song is far too long and repetitive - the audience gets the gist of the song by the first verse and so doesn't need a whole four minute song to present Toby's message. Our Toby is having a little difficulty with this song at the moment, in terms of tuning and the higher sections (as he is not a singer), so he has been given until next lesson to sort it before we make a decision on the song. Therefore, today, I went through the song with James. I taught him how posture effects singing, how to support notes, how to place notes and the difference between head and chest voice. Straining, tuning and head voice were the three main things James was having issues with. We have fixed his posture and facial placement (i.e. not over-opening his mouth and smiling more instead), which in turn has solved the straining issue and the tuning too - but we are currently working on his break between head and chest voice. All of the song actually sounds really good now but we are still working on the section "demons will charm you...", as this is rather high for him (but can't be dropped an octave as it doesn't work for his character).
"My Friends": Our Sweeney doesn't feel very confident with this song, because his voice is so exposed in it. He feels uncomfortable in this number, so we decided to workshop how we could sing this number. Rob shall sing the first couple of lines solo (as he is happy with this part) but the rest of the ensemble will come in later so we sing in unison - we shall change the pronouns to make the song make sense with other people singing - for example, Lovett could sing "your friends, your faithful friends". By making this song a group number, we would be able to add in harmonies. We came up with a little bit of movement for this as we were making it an ensemble piece. We came up with the following idea: Rob and I singing it whilst others do movement that symbolises the razors. We would like to use silhouettes in this piece. We have only come up with a couple of movements for this, but we did some arm movements in cannon and some in unison. We want all of our movements to be smooth and fluid to show Sweeney's calm mind set now he is fantasising, compared to his angry outburst earlier.
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