Oohhhh you lovely festive lot! We had a really lovely rehearsal starting with Maria's 'breath of joy' warm up - put us in a really gentle mood didn't it!? We did 'Dreams may shine' as a warm up but with really long slow notes to use the lovely breath we'd just worked on. The went … Continue reading Rehearsal Notes 09.12.19
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Rehearsal Notes 25.11.19
Lovely, happy rehearsal tonight! Thank you all for your love and energy. We sang a couple of Christmas bits and went through some of the harmonies for Fairytale of New York (at the end of Part 1). There's a direct half split so the reds/yellows get one part and the blues/greens get the other in … Continue reading Rehearsal Notes 25.11.19
Rehearsal Notes Monday 16th September 2019
Great energy last night! Thanks to everyone who came along and sang.... this is what we got up to! We did a movement warm up to 'Shooting Stars' by Bag Raiders (new favourite song - my kids are sick of it on repeat in the car) then we warmed up our voices with a little … Continue reading Rehearsal Notes Monday 16th September 2019
Back to school, back to singing! Monday 2nd September Rehearsal Notes
Thank you to everyone who came and sang last night! A lovely feeling of a new term, some great energy and high quality voices. Here's what we got up to: We had a long introduction for our 25 new people about fire exits, choir etiquette and how we do things etc. Just to reiterate - … Continue reading Back to school, back to singing! Monday 2nd September Rehearsal Notes
Show me how you do that trick…
I'm sharing something very special today. I arranged this (one of my favourite Cure songs) this term for the West Bridgford Liberty Singers. The original track has a lot of instrumental work and I re-worked these for 4 part voices. It wasn't an easy song to teach as many of the choir hadn't heard it … Continue reading Show me how you do that trick…
Rehearsal catch ups…..
Our lovely West Bridgford Liberty Singers have some fairly significant gigs this summer and while I understand that life gets in the way of rehearsals - they don't get let off that lightly if they miss them! Here are the two halves of the rehearsal from Monday night.
What makes a great rehearsal?
I rarely come back from any of my choir rehearsals feeling that we had a 'bad' rehearsal. That would be huge failure on my part. Most of the rehearsals are really good! But just occasionally, you get a great one. How does this work!? Last Monday, my West Bridgford Liberty Singers met up for … Continue reading What makes a great rehearsal?