Fitting Meg in

For this rehearsal we needed to teach Meg the new song so we used the rehearsal technique of breaking it down into sections to teacher her a bit at the time. I sung my ba dada's for her to sing over and experiment with. Once she found a harmony, I decided that I would slur mine to make it sound more jazzy whilst she still does hers staccato. This takes away the 50's feel and makes it sound interesting especially when the harmony comes in after being in unison. For the chorus we added her in a higher harmony, as this sits well within her voice, which crosses over my harmony at some points but this sounds strong and together due to practicing this a lot by look at each other to create a good blend with the tight harmonies. To add comedic affect, when Amy is singing the 'I lied' in the chorus Meg repeats this which also helps the story to be clearly communicated and for what Amy's character is saying to be re enforced. For the bridge I decided to give this to Meg for her to sing as it fitted her vocal style, allowing her to use the voice technique of belting whilst we go back to the chorus creating an interesting texture. Then we went on to deciding the ending of the song which we chose there to be an acapella chorus because this would sound nice with the tight harmonies. Then a run down the piano because this was a common feature of jazz whilst also sounding dramatic to fit with the Musical Theatre genre. The final acapella 'goodbye' not only fitted the Musical Theatre genre as Meg went up in pitch at the end to give a showy affect, but also fitted with the humorous story line. This was a successful rehearsal because a lot was achieved to make up for lack of previous rehearsal tie. To improve upon this song we just need to rehearse it so it is clean and tight.