After the concert band rehearsal, Mr.
Crawford went back downstairs to work with the junior varsity choir in the
choir room. After warming them up with warm-ups from his Building Beautiful Voices book, Mr. Crawford very quickly ran over
and addressed and fixed specific spots in each piece that need to be mentioned,
such as one vowel not lining up on exactly on the beat where it was supposed to
fall. Just fine tuning things like that. Then he ran through each song like it
was the concert, recording the students. After getting through all of their
pieces, he played the recordings back to them so that they could hear what they
sounded like. He then allowed them to make their own comments and suggestions
on things that they should do before going back to the pieces and fixing the
different aspects that they didn’t like in the recording. The students were
very engaged when they knew that they were being recorded and listened intently
as their own voices were being played back at them.
I really liked the concept of letting the students listen to and comment
on their own performance because it allows them to have a say in what they are
doing, and in turn I think that they will put more effort into trying to make
it the best that they can. I didn’t like how they didn’t practice on stage
because it is a different sound up there, and it is something that you do have
to adjust to as a musician. But being able to record them before they performed,
I thought that was a good alternative. When I teach I also want to be able to
have my students give their own feedback on how they are performing, because I
want them as engaged in what they are doing as they possibly can be. The idea of
recording them is almost like a test in other classes, seeing how they perform
and learning from your mistakes.
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