For my second research piece I decided to choose a song called The Girl From Ipanema. The piece was originally written by Vinicius de Moraes and Antonio Carlos Jobim. Vinicius de Moraes wrote the lyrics in Portuguese and has later on adapted it to English. I decided to sing the Portuguese version because it has a lot of sounds that usually drop back on my throat when I sing them and I wanted to work on my resonation. It is also a hard song to sing because it changes the key a few times.
I decided to accompany myself. It helped understanding the feel of the song and how the vocal rhythm sits on the one played by the classical guitar. I started practicing it by learning the guitar part. Then, I divided the song into a few different parts and learnt the melody. I had some difficulties on the phrase “A beleza que nao e so minha, que tambem passa sozinha”. Even though I practiced the melody on its own I had some difficulties in terms of intonation on this particular part. In the end of that phrase, I had to sing a note that doesn’t belong to the chord I was playing and it made harder to sing it.
I though the performance went quite well. I was a bit nervous and I lost the rhythm in the improvisation part because my leg started shaking. There was some good feedback about my facial expression, diction, feel of the song, and tone of my voice. I am going to sing this song on my final solo performance and I will organise a band to accompany me. That will give me more freedom to sing and improvise. I would like to sing it in English and Portuguese as I think it would make it a bit more interesting.
I decided to accompany myself. It helped understanding the feel of the song and how the vocal rhythm sits on the one played by the classical guitar. I started practicing it by learning the guitar part. Then, I divided the song into a few different parts and learnt the melody. I had some difficulties on the phrase “A beleza que nao e so minha, que tambem passa sozinha”. Even though I practiced the melody on its own I had some difficulties in terms of intonation on this particular part. In the end of that phrase, I had to sing a note that doesn’t belong to the chord I was playing and it made harder to sing it.
I though the performance went quite well. I was a bit nervous and I lost the rhythm in the improvisation part because my leg started shaking. There was some good feedback about my facial expression, diction, feel of the song, and tone of my voice. I am going to sing this song on my final solo performance and I will organise a band to accompany me. That will give me more freedom to sing and improvise. I would like to sing it in English and Portuguese as I think it would make it a bit more interesting.
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