Jamal

Joy and pleasure is a difficult subject to teach to singers. First off the singers must truly love singing. If they do not then joy and pleassure while esinging is almost impossible. One way to teach Joy and pleasure would be to keep repeating singing or continuously practicing. If enough practce is done, singing feels like a first language and it is easy to do. When fluidity comes into singing and the singer does not have to be asked to sing, it is obvious they have joy and pleasure. Also when the singer seems to have fun while singing, and is self-stimulated. Facial expressions can be used to easily identify a person's stance in almost any case. This goes for singing as well. If a person is smiling or seems concentrated, they will most likely be having Joy and pleasure. Joy and pleasure are needed in order for good performances. It will arouse the audience and make the singer sound and stand (posturely) better. By not looking at the audience while singing, the singers seem more focused and thus sing better.

2. Over pronouncing. “[|Sing, Sing a song, Sing out loud, Sing out strong, Sing of good things, not bad, Sing of happy, not sad, Sing, Sing a song, Make it simple, To last your whole life long, Don't worry that it's not good enough, For anyone else to hear, Sing, Sing a song.]”

-quote from Joe Raposo the singer

As Mr. Raposa has already mentioned you should sing no matter the situation. Singing should be kept simple yet effective and it should be loud and strong. By overprounouncing vowels and consonants this becomes a simple task. It may seem a bit silly on the face but has a great effect on the quality of sound that is emitted from the singers voice.

During the song tatoo, overprounouncing can change the quality. Some lineswill be gone through while showing the significance of overprounouncing.

Oh, oh, oh- control the o sound by making o shaped with mouth and very small. No matter what you say about life- Consonants are very short yet vowels a and o are pronounced longer. Small look on mouth for control.O on know is controlled. N is short on No. Life- l is long but controlled and the mouth opens upward instead of across.

In order to fix problems of consonants me and Stainah just kept practicing. We had problems controlling many of the o's and singing for extended periods of times the other vowels that were held in the song. So we practiced it more and more often. We also tried to remove distraction pieces of the choreography that are not needed. The choreography was to help us be free and sing better but if this is not achieved then the choreography is pointless. Many steps were taken away from various sections of the song in order to increase awareness and quality of voice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKuND4PVoUg the above video clearly states the correct ways words should be pronounced whilst singing.