With how fast the Christmas concert was arranged, I felt like I was struggling to find songs. That was one of the main problems I faced when the Christmas concert was announced, The next week was spent trying to learn the songs that we have decided on, and the ones we were planning to sing together as a year group. The first group song that was assigned was Feed the world by BAND AID. Singing this song with the entire year brought up some new challenges for me, it was hard to sing clearly and loudly when singing with an array of people, I felt like I couldn’t sing loudly enough, and I felt like hearing other people’s voices on a song I didn’t know very well confused me and made me nervous when singing my part. Even though I only had two lines in the entire song, I still was struggling to find confidence to sing the lines. Thankfully, if the other singers saw I was struggling they’d sing with me so my line was heard, but I felt like I was just struggling to sing the lines every time. The song itself was a wonderful concept, and I really enjoyed being able to perform onstage with my friends. Because of new Covid restrictions, we were unfortunately unable to perform in front of the audience like we originally had planned to. So we decided to compromise and we made a decision to make a pre recorded video if all of our performances we wanted to to do and make Live on YouTube and make it accessible to our families and friends. This way we didn’t have to cancel a side project in which we had all worked hard on, and people could still see the work we had done.
For my Solo Performances I had picked two songs that I already knew, because we only had a week to rehearse and put the video together, I had to go with songs I knew I would be comfortable with. I decided to choose Creep by Radiohead, and Love Yourself by Justin Bieber, Both songs in which I already knew and had previous performances with. I feel like this decision was one of the smartest moves I made. Getting the opportunity to finally sing creep was something I wanted since last year, Because my family had gotten Covid in my first project last year, I was unable to perform Creep, and had to self isolate along with my family, which was not fun, So finally get a chance to sing it really made me happy. Not being able to sing it actually managed to give me the time to really grow confident with the song, and even create a new twist on what was originally a rock song. I really like this version, and I had a lot of positive feedback from others that had watched the live stream. Performing on the stage because easier with a song I already new I could sing very well, But having people taking picture of me and recording did make me a little nervous, since I was exactly used to being in front of camera like that. Apart from that, performing for me went relatively well.
Performing Love Yourself was honestly very easy, at this point, I had gotten comfortable in front of the camera, and I was less nervous when it came to singing. Love yourself was a song I had song for Paul’s Project Two Mock. It was last minute, but I had already known that song long before college so it was easy to perform with a new group. I honestly don’t have much to say about this performance other than to once again work on building confidence, because I don’t really feel like I sounded bad or anything went wrong performance wise. All I can really say is that I loved performing this and and I had a lot of fun. So to summarize, I think I improved drastically since my last online performance, and I felt it was a lot less awkward than lip syncing the lyrics, and working with pre recorded audio. Live performances are a lot more efficient in my opinion, and I enjoy it a lot more.