Use these words and phrases to help you talk with your partner about the singers and the things they need to improve.

Standing position – Posture

Pitch – High and Low tuning of notes

Mouth shape

Breathing

The message of the song

This video shows what happens when small cameras are fed into singer’s throats through their nose to observe wjhat happens when people sing. In the four images you can see the vocal folds, like a pair of lips, expanding and contracting when the singers sing different notes. When they are apart, the singer is breathing in and out.

Fascinating!!

Rathoven’s Favourite Music

This boy is an excellent singer.
What does he KNOW, what does he FEEL and what does he DO that helps him be such a good singer?

Can you add any of these things to the way you sing?

Nina Nesbitt is an up and coming singer/composer from Edinburgh in Scotland. She recently had a hit record in the UK charts called ‘Stay Out’ and is touring a lot around Europe at the moment. She writes all her own songs – and she’s just 19 years old!

Ludwig van Beethoven – Composer – 1770-1827

Sonata number 8 – ‘The Pathetique’

The ‘Moonlight’ Sonata