This summer I taught at a 3 week intensive Broadway Bootcamp as part of the Red Mountain Theatre Company in Birmingham, Alabama. This was the final showcase pedagogy presentation.
To everyone saying she needs to back off, the description says it's a pedagogy performance-- for those of you that don't know, pedagogy means teaching. So this isn't really a performance for the kids to shine, rather a performance for her to show her teaching style and how her kids learn from her.
everyone is saying that the teacher was overshadowing,, but i definitely think she was just trying to make them feel more comfortable because that’s a terrifying thing to do, i also thing she was queuing the chorus in
i’m pretty sure this is just a demonstration to maybe parents ? of how she runs her class and what the students are learning. natalie wasn’t trying to overshadow.
For everyone saying Natalie was overshadowing, I STRONGLY disagreed, I believe she was just trying to make them feel comfortable and not feel like they are by themselves and also to probably help lead the ensemble. Personally that would help me cuz I freak out a little inside if I’m alone on stage.
i don’t feel like she was trying to overshadow. i think she was there to sing with them because it can be uncomfortable singing about a random topic to a random beat on the spot
Perhaps because they were dancing and were told to wear something suitable for that? Broadway is more than just the singing, so I think it would make sense
It’s a choir/band thing. It’s so they’ll match and not stick out. I’m in a varsity choir and the guys have black suits and the girls have long black floor length gowns all fitted to our body types. They probably just don’t have their uniforms yet. They also very well could’ve been dancing
based on what they’re all wearing, they most likely did quite a few dance performances as well as this. All the girls have on boots, character shoes or jazz shoes and all the boys are in dance sweats and sneakers. the black was probably just for unification among them
it was to help them feel more comfortable. they are young and probably arent used to singing alone after being called out like that. She's a really great teacher and she just wants to help.
I think it’s actually a good thing to have a teacher leading you the way with confidence in this example. If I were to sing in the middle of the class I would REALLY appreciate my teacher being next to me and singing with confidence. You know when you see someone doing it next to you, its easier to reproduce
I know she was trying to make them more comfortable, but she swould just flat out sing over them, and only after 30 seconds of them singing by themself
the reason its not so great is that it can lead to jaw tension plus its putting more of the work on the jaw rather than the vocal muscles which should be doing most of the work
I know this comment is from like a year ago, but I feel like it's probably good to keep clarifying. ;) From what I've learned from my teacher and self-exploration and watching great riffers, it's okay to let your jaw move if it wants to during riffing. It's only causing jaw tension if it moves in a tense way. If you end up holding your jaw in a rigid tense way because you don't want to let it move naturally, THAT will cause just as much IF NOT MORE tension! To make some types of riffs come out clear and delineate notes well, it's not the exact same type of technique as singing legato as you don't want to make it smooth. For slower riffs, one may not need to use the jaw, but it varies on things like if you are changing the vowel in the middle riff or changing the color/depth of your vowel in the middle of the riff (I think Christina Aguilera is someone who does that a lot, and you can see how the jaw has to participate in order to get the sound right!) I think it's more of a balance of being able to get the transient engagement (a rather harmless momentary tension kind of like how we can use consonants). It's one of the things that allows some of the best riffers to do REALLY FAST riffs that still sound clear.
I loved this! The teacher was so supportive and I would’ve loved to be a part of this class!! All those students were so brave to sing in front of all those people! And Natalie’s voice is absolutely stunning!!
Does anyone have Jordan’s anything (insta, RU-vid link or something) I wanna see where he is now. He must have made it somewhere. Also Jordan is my spirit animal now😂😂
@@jlynnhoffman9751 I think you kind of dont know what youre talking about and youre really reading too much into a PERFORMER giving an interesting PERFORMANCE.
Ashlynn Kirkland I think that you shouldnt criticize strangers on what they do and don’t know. I have taken vocal lessons. I do know what I am talking about. She isn’t there to perform; the kids are. She is making it about herself.
@@jlynnhoffman9751 I take voice lessons, and am in the process of getting a degree in music education with a emphasis in voice. None of my voice professors have ever made my lessons about them, and how are you gonna talk to me about criticizing strangers when thats exactly what youre doing?
