It’s very easy for singers to stay in the same voice part in choir, even though it may not be the best place for them.
Lovemusic Community Choir by Patrick_Down is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.
Rather than assume you can’t sing that high (or low), why not put it to the test? You might be surprised.
Sometimes I don’t know what I’m doing. There, I’ve admitted it.
We usually keep quiet when we’re unsure, but I believe it’s much better to own up in public. Here’s why.
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?