Reflection On Storm Of Life

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The audience's first impression was important. I made a last minute decision to go and put on lipstick before the audience arrived. When I returned to the performance room the audience were seated.
I was at least a minute late. If I were to apologise to everyone I may give the impression of tardiness and lack of respect for the audience who were there to watch the performance.
Second thought was to shut down any feelings of disappointment in myself and stay focus because I have achieved my goal, my performance was going ahead.
I have had several months of treatment for cancer and slowly regaining my self-confidence. In January I was confident enough to take off my hat in public because my hair is growing back and I

On reflection, more practice with performance visualisation would reduce concentration on techniques and transport to ‘that place' in order to deliver a more heartfelt rendition. In future practice, going back to basics will transform this song. Hum the melody to enrich voice resonation and relaxation, use primary vowel sound and nonsense syllables (Peckham, 2006 p26) to improve tone, intonation, and pitch.

Storm of Life
After explaining what inspired the lyrics for Storm of Life, Alyson gave me my starting note. Wrong register which meant that I used chest voice throughout out. Immediately I dismissed restarting the song because of the previous mistake with swapping songs. Dilemma restart performance or change register; feeling it is too late try to work on lifting tone because I found that singing very low causes lost of tone and pitch. This song was excellent during the sound check the musicians sound amazing.

Summary
During my practice sessions, I mapped out the techniques for each song that was important for me to achieve the best vocal delivery and performance. Breathing techniques and breath control, lyric phrasing and rhythm; vocal dynamics, diction, and belting. (Peckham, 2000,