{"id":27,"date":"2013-07-24T14:03:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T18:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/vocaljazzcamp2013\/?p=27"},"modified":"2013-07-24T14:03:21","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T18:03:21","slug":"wednesdays-blog-24-july-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/vocaljazzcamp2013\/2013\/07\/24\/wednesdays-blog-24-july-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday&#8217;s Blog: 24 July 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please see a counselor or a staffer for suggestions on how to get the most out of your blog writing. \u00a0Quality blogging accelerates your learning. \u00a0Sharing your discoveries, insights and questions helps others reflect on what&#8217;s possible, and gives credence to their discoveries! \u00a0Your blog needs to include <strong>facts<\/strong>\u00a0(what\u2019s happening?), <strong>feelings<\/strong>\u00a0(yeah; about those facts), and the\u00a0<strong>future<\/strong>\u00a0(what\u2019s upcoming up next?). \u00a0Include things you\u2019ve learned, and things you really want to learn.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights of our camp life yesterday and this morning:<\/p>\n<p>TUESDAY EVENING:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adventures in music theory (two levels)<\/li>\n<li>Quality time to practice, blog and research<\/li>\n<li>Eating together (pulled pork sandwiches!),<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>WEDNESDAY:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Warmups w\/ Ms. Gordon: I LOVE TO SING: Singing is a whole body experience!<\/li>\n<li>Introduced to Jason Mraz&#8217;s I WON&#8217;T GIVE UP. \u00a0We&#8217;re dedicating this to our hero, Ms. Hubbard! \u00a0It took about 37 minutes to introduce all six steps of this piece. \u00a0Lots of success already.<\/li>\n<li>Tackled lots of loose words, phrases, rhythms and pitches on I SING YOU SING and THE LOOK OF LOVE. \u00a0Good work, but more is needed&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Rehearsal with our rhythm section began and ended with improvs &#8211; all campers soloed. \u00a0Very cool, very musical conversations.<\/li>\n<li>Got off-book on a portion of BLUE SKIES, so we could get on-mic. \u00a0It&#8217;s easy to forget about keeping two fingers between our lips and the mic&#8217;s bale.<\/li>\n<li>Soloists have to move in 1\/4&#8243; (a bar early) for a good EQ and to give the Audio Engineer time to make our mic hot.<\/li>\n<li>When we&#8217;re not the soloist (i.e. accompanying), we move our lips away from the mic \u00a01\/4&#8243; (a little early) or we&#8217;ll bury the soloists. \u00a0Burying the soloists is not a good thing.<\/li>\n<li>We rehearsed all but two of our pieces w\/ the band!<\/li>\n<li>We did some multitrack recording\u00a0with Mr. Lee Cheng!<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After we blog today, we\u2019ll:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Continue vocal techniques with Ms. Gordon and Dr. B<\/li>\n<li>Tackle SATIN DOLL and WHEN I FALL IN LOVE in our breakout (chamber) choirs<\/li>\n<li>Wrap up our day w\/ a rehearsal in Schrott with our rhythm section.<\/li>\n<li>Commuters will dismiss, dorm folks will go to dinner and evening activities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So far, we\u2019ve\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>applied Dr. B\u2019s Six Steps to most of our music (1. 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Memorize)<\/li>\n<li>experimented with <em>many<\/em> jazz styles (Blue Skies, I Sing You Sing, The Look of Love, I Won&#8217;t Give Up, 12 bar latin, circle singing,<\/li>\n<li>learned about the roles of the rhythm section instruments: the bass (the rhythmic and harmonic foundation of the jazz band), the drums (sets the style), and the piano (supports all of the other instruments, can also solo)&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Soon, we\u2019ll explore more of the history of vocal jazz. \u00a0Perhaps we&#8217;ll learn enough to introduce our own charts at Friday&#8217;s 5 pm gig.<\/p>\n<p>Life is good when we\u00a0Work hard and Play Hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please see a counselor or a staffer for suggestions on how to get the most out of your blog writing. \u00a0Quality blogging accelerates your learning. \u00a0Sharing your discoveries, insights and questions helps others reflect on what&#8217;s possible, and gives credence &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/vocaljazzcamp2013\/2013\/07\/24\/wednesdays-blog-24-july-2013\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1567,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/vocaljazzcamp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/vocaljazzcamp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/vocaljazzcamp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/vocaljazzcamp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1567"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/vocaljazzcamp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/vocaljazzcamp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/vocaljazzcamp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/vocaljazzcamp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/vocaljazzcamp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/vocaljazzcamp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}