Sometimes we encounter a challenging part of a song and need to work on it separately.
But if we try to keep this in mind when singing the first part of the song, it will affect the other notes. Here’s what I think is happening.
This is one of a series of summary posts around a specific topic, bringing together five relevant posts from the past.
This summary is all about vocal range: how it’s relevant to being in a choir and how you might go about finding where you fit. I’ve already referred to five older posts in the first part of this series.
One of the many reasons why people say that they can’t sing is that it takes them ages to learn a song.
But that’s OK. Even professionals take time to get a song under their belt.
Last week I wrote about song leaders and singers in rehearsal and at workshops feeling that they’ve made a big mistake. Yet nobody noticed: Think it's all going wrong? Spoiler: nobody's noticing!
This week I want to consider live performance, both from the perspective of choir leaders and singers.
I had a bad workshop experience the other day. I felt that the whole day had gone wrong and I wasn’t up to snuff.
Yet loads of people came up to me afterwards to tell me how much they’d enjoyed it. What’s going on here?
We’re all very good at sabotaging ourselves. You know the kind of thing: “I can’t do that” or “That was a disaster.”
However, there are some simple and powerful phrases that can help us overcome these self-doubts.
I led a Beatles a cappella singing day last week. As usual, it attracted people who love to sing pop songs.
Everyone enjoyed it, but many pointed out afterwards how hard it had been to learn the songs.