Avenue Q Reflective Blog : 3

In this lesson, the girls and the boys were split into two and were given the task to independently learn a solo song, one for the boys and one for the girls. The girls were given “ Fine, Fine Line” a song from Avenue Q sang by Kate Monster and the boys were given “Schadenfreude” sang by Gary Coleman and Nicky.

In my opinion a problem I faced was trying to learn the lyrics around noise. A technique for myself is sitting in silence, reading it through line by line and repeating eachline then adding the next to it, so that way its memorised. However a group of girls were learning the same song, using their own techniques and across the room the boys were rehearsing aswell. It through me off a little bit and I began to worry I wouldn’t have learnt the song well enough on time to perform in front of Tom.
How I resolved my problem was by asking to leave the room so I could focus properly.

When it came to performing the song, I was a bit nervous and I think that got the better of me. My feedback was that I started off strong and was getting the words right, but my vocal projection let me down and towards the end of the song I was too quiet. For me, I think that I was probably so focused on getting the words right that I became uncertain of what line was next which led to me being quiet. However I was in the top 3 to be the soloist, which I am proud of. It just shows me next time I have to just go for it and push myself, I have to implement vocal projection and clarity.