This is What I Did Today
That's right. I practiced this diction exercise in chorus today!
What? You were thinking that I could tap like that after three lessons? That'll take at least another three. Decades.
Plainsies, Clapsies
A ball bouncing game from my youth instructed the player to throw the ball up ( plainsies ), throw it up and clap ( clapsies ) throw it up and roll your hands ( roll the ball ) and touch your shoulders ( tabapsies ). In trying to locate the rest of the ball bouncing chant, I found out not only is my “tabapsies” a mondegreen , but also the motion – touching your shoulders – isn’t even the correct movement! You are supposed to clap your hands behind your back and say “ to backsies .” Yeah. That makes much more sense. Being only slightly deflated by this discovery, I will still share my exciting news. In an attempt to counteract the stretching of my wrist from doing front squats two days in a row, I pulled out the tabapsies motion this morning. This, in itself, is not newsworthy. However, I grabbed both shoulders with all five fingers!!! Again, not exciting unless you know that when I was nine years-old, I broke my left elbow doing a running cartwheel; the repai
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I guess it's all that practice. You'd be surprised how often the need to mimick purring comes up in every day conversation.
Actually, it was Fiddler who introduced the diction exercise to the chorus today. Yay for all the happiness it brought, both in and after chorus!
Well done.