Before you can ever jump on stage and sing any new song there is a process of seven steps to help you perform it correctly and well. You need to study the piece and prepare it properly. This component study involves seven detailed parts, text, rhythm, meter, and tempo, melody, form, voice, harmony, and dynamics, phrasing and musical articulation.
Reading through the text of the song silently first is necessary for studying any song but more time and special attention is needed for songs like Du bist wie eine Blume, which is in a foreign language, German. Most songs in a foreign language have a word for word English and an IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) translation that will help you out. The IPA will help with pronunciation and articulation but the English translation will help you get an idea of feeling of the song and the emotion.
<Tab/>I spent longer than normal on studying the text. I do not read German and I really wanted to pronounce all the words correctly but then I kept looking at the English translation cause I wanted to say it with the correct meaning. After I was confident, I started to say it out loud because then I could hear myself and find were I was stumbling over.…
