Week 14 - This is It

Less than a week until juries. Yikes!.... But the weird thing is even though I still feel I have a ton of stuff to do to get ready I am not very stressed out at all, there has been so much going on that I think I just busted my stress meter so now all I have to do is make it through next week alive and then I can worry about everything else going on this summer. But right now Its all about finals week, and especially barriers. I am feeling confident i almost all of my music, the only one that could really be a close call is Intermezzo my German piece, it seems like every semester so far my German song has been the last one for me to get down, so I think next semester will be one of me focusing on my German piece first if I have one. So I think this will be a weekend full of practice, score studies, and finishing up my voice notebook. With the end of the semester this close in sight I don't see a reason to let stress take over and ruin everything I have been working for... Barriers, here I come!

Week 12/13- The End Is In Site

This week I am going to blog about the last two weeks since I am pretty sure that I spaced and forgot to do one last week. Anyways, last week was a very slow week, it was just kind of one of those off kinda distant feeling weeks. But I spent a lot of time working on my French piece trying to make sure I had it ready for the recital that Thursday. And when it cam to the recital I thought it went really good except for the whole pencil thing, and I may have messed up a couple entrances, but Phil, being as amazing as he is, was able to cover them up so no one could actually tell. By the time this week rolled around I had managed to get out of my haze from the previous week. I was able to get some really good practice in and at this point all I really have two do is memorize my last two pieces. And also this week I have been able to get some really good time working on things for my voice notebook, and the more I work on finding info, the less worried Iget about memorizing information for barriers (which are less than two weeks away). But I am feeling confident and I think it will talk a lot to bring me down at this point in the semester when I think back on how far I have come, and how much more improvement I will make in the semesters to come. :)

Week 11- If I Fall Now It Sure Is a Long Ways Down.

I can't explain why but I feel like a weight has been lifted of my shoulders this week, It could have to due with the fact that I no longer have to worry about my speech class. But either way I just feel more relaxed, which I feel could be very vital to my surviving the rest of the semester. I sang on recital this Wednesday and I felt it went great, and every one who was there said it was the best they have ever heard me sing. So that mean I am going to set the bar higher for myself once again. If I keep my goal at a constantly unreachable distance then I will no choice but to improve more. I want people to say its the best they have heard me sing every time I sing. This weeks lesson was good, we took the time to do some nit picking at my aria, along with touching on a few other pieces. Including my French which I will be singing on studio recital next Thursday. I don't quite have it memorized yet, but I am planing on using free time I have now on getting my songs memorized so I can focus on the little details. I am going to want to sound amazing at barriers, and that is my goal. And now that I have an open class period now that speech is over I am going to devote that time period to getting work and research done on my voice note book. Barriers, you don't stand a chance!

Week 10- This Climb is Starting to Feel Smaller and Smaller every Day

This week has been fantastic, after last week I feel like I have made a ton of progress. I basically have my aria memorized so now its a matter of working on the little things and just my overall singing technique, and I am planning on singing my aria for recital next Thursday and I am starting to get pretty excited! Along with that I feel as though the rest of my songs are coming along nicely and a lot of the are on the verge of being memorized. I was able to get in a lot more practice time compared to the last couple of weeks, and I am loving every minute of it. At this rate I think i can finish out this semester really strong as long as I don't distracted by anything or lose focus. And on top of all of that I feel like I am on the verge of a really good breakthrough. I am feeling really confident about a lot of my school related work and I am hoping that this improvement keeps up, and that I can keep having lessons as good as the one that I had this week(which was probably the best one i have had yet this semester if not since I have been taking voice lessons. This are looking up!