Decision time

🎶🎬HOW TO DIRECT A CHOIR ✍🔑 ☝ PREPARING FOR PERFORMANCE 🎶📜👍 📁📝Season 5. Episode 1. DECISION TIME🎶🎼📓 Decide what type of clothing or uniform your choir will wear on performance night. All of the members of your choir should have coordinated outfits that do not distract from their performance and that look professional. ★Church choirs may already have choir robes. Be sure to communicate with the church organizers about choir expectations. ★Other types of choir groups, such as school or community choirs, may not have preexisting uniforms, but may wear white shirts with black pants or skirts. For live lessons and interactive class join us via https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Hold section rehearsal

🎶🎬HOW TO DIRECT A CHOIR ✍🔑 ☝ HOLDING REHEARSALS 🎶📜👍 📁📝Season 4. Episode 3. HOLD SECTION REHEARSALS🎶🎼📓 Hold sectional or solo rehearsals privately as needed. Working with individuals or small groups can be as important as rehearsing with the entire choir. •Work with soloists to perfect each's part to make their performance more polished. •During sectional rehearsals, split the choir into individual voice parts and rehearse each part separately. This way, more time may be devoted to ensuring that notes and rhythms are mastered. •Reassemble the sections and soloists back together as an ensemble after you are satisfied with their work in sectionals. For live lessons and interactive class join us via https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Holding rehearsals

🎶🎬HOW TO DIRECT A CHOIR ✍🔑 ☝ HOLDING REHEARSALS 🎶📜👍 📁📝Season 4. Episode 2. HOLDING REHEARSALS🎶🎼📓 ■When introducing new music, be sure to discuss in detail the musical piece you have chosen. ■Break each piece up into manageable sections. You do not need to work an entire piece in one rehearsal. ■Be consistent with the format of your rehearsals. Start with a warm-up, then move to the sections that are to be rehearsed. Be clear about your goals for each rehearsal. For live lessons and interactive class join us via https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Plan Rehearsals

🎶🎬HOW TO DIRECT A CHOIR ✍🔑 ☝ HOLDING REHEARSALS 🎶📜👍 📁📝Season 4. Episode 1. PLAN REHEARSAL🎶🎼📓 Prepare a detailed rehearsal plan. The plan should include an attendance policy with repercussions for missing practices. ◆Include date, time, and place for each rehearsal. ◆Your accompanist should be at all of your rehearsals. If your chorus is a cappella or if you are using pre-recorded accompanying music, you do not need an accompanist. For live lessons and interactive class join us via https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Interpret music selection

🎶🎬HOW TO DIRECT A CHOIR ✍🔑 ☝ DETERMINING MUSIC SELECTION🎶📜👍 📁📝Season 3. Episode 3. INTERPRETE MUSIC SELECTION🎶🎼📓 Interpret and study music selections. It is important that you know how you want the music to sound before you begin working with pieces with the choir. ●Meet with the accompanist to discuss the music and your interpretation of it. ●Become very familiar with the music, including all of the individual vocal parts, and how you will conduct it before going into rehearsal. Do not try to "learn it as you go." For live lessons and interactive class join us via https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Select music

🎶🎬HOW TO DIRECT A CHOIR ✍🔑 ☝ DETERMINING MUSIC SELECTION🎶📜👍 📁📝Season 3. Episode 2. SELECT MUSIC (2)🎶🎼📓 Select music that is appropriate for your choir. Music selections should be based on the skill level of your choir, and should be easy enough that they can be successful but complex enough that they will be challenged. For live lessons and interactive class join us via https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Select music

🎶🎬HOW TO DIRECT A CHOIR ✍🔑 ☝ DETERMINING MUSIC SELECTION🎶📜👍 📁📝Season 3. Episode 1. SELECT MUSIC 🎶🎼📓 Select music that is appropriate for the occasion. There are many considerations that influence music selection: Is the choir religious or secular? What season is it? If the choir is performing as a part of a larger event, what is the tone of the event? For live lessons and interactive class join us via https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Notify them

🎶🎬HOW TO DIRECT A CHOIR ✍🔑 ☝ ASSEMBLING VOCAL TALENT 🎶📜👍 📁📝Season 2. Episode 5. NOTIFY THEM 🎶🎼📓 Notify those chosen of your decision. You will need to notify those who auditioned whether or not they were chosen for the choir by writing a letter or posting a list or phoning. ■Be sure to write a short note of thanks to those who were not selected. For live lessons and interactive class join us via https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Select your members

🎶🎬HOW TO DIRECT A CHOIR ✍🔑 ☝ ASSEMBLING VOCAL TALENT 🎶📜👍 📁📝Season 2. Episode 4. SELECT YOUR CHOIR MEMBERS 🎶🎼📓 Determine the number of singers you need, as well as the voice mix you desire then select those singers required. □If you have very experienced, strong singers, you can form a small group, whereas less skilled singers do better in a large group. □Ensure that you have the appropriate balance in vocal parts: soprano, alto, tenor, and bass. □You may make other balance considerations as well. Be sure to consider other aspects such as gender, age, and race to maintain diversity. For live lessons and interactive class join us via https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Hold the auditions

🎶🎬HOW TO DIRECT A CHOIR ✍🔑 ☝ ASSEMBLING VOCAL TALENT 🎶📜👍 📁📝Season 2. Episode 3. HOLD THE AUDITIONS 🎶🎼📓 Listening to each vocalist sing and taking thorough notes about their performance will help you in your selection process. ■Evaluate the vocal ability of each singer by noting the range and quality of each voice. ■You may want to develop a short questionnaire for singers to disclose experience, describe vocal range, ability to read music, etc. ■Maintain a neutral facial expression during each singer's tryout and be sure to remain professional and polite. Someone's feelings may be hurt by a frown or other reaction to a poor performance, or you may get up someone’s hope by seeming excessively pleased. For live lessons and interactive class join us via https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Plan the auditions

🎶🎬HOW TO DIRECT A CHOIR ✍🔑 ☝ ASSEMBLING VOCAL TALENT 🎶📜👍 📁📝Season 2. Episode 2. PLAN THE AUDITIONS 🎶🎼📓 If you decide to have auditions, be sure to do the following steps. If you do not plan to hold auditions, you can skip ahead to the next part. •Secure a time and place for your auditions. For consistency It may be best to hold auditions in the hall in which you will be rehearsing or performing. •Advertise your auditions. Think about the types of singers you wish to recruit and plan your advertising accordingly. You may want to start advertising several weeks to a month before the auditions will take place. •Decide whether to have singers prepare their own piece of music for the audition or sight-read on the spot. This information should be included in the advertisement. For live lessons and interactive class join us via https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Auditions

🎶🎬HOW TO DIRECT A CHOIR ✍🔑 ☝ ASSEMBLING VOCAL TALENT 🎶📜👍 📁📝Season 2. Episode 1. AUDITIONS 🎶🎼📓 Decide whether or not to hold auditions. While holding auditions may lead to a more skilled choir, some choir directors choose to give all those interested an opportunity to participate. For live lessons and interactive class join us via https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Practice frequently

🎶🎬HOW TO DIRECT A CHOIR ✍🔑 ☝LEARNING HAND AND BODY LANGUAGE FOR DIRECTING 🎶📜👍 📁📝Season 1. Episode 5. PRACTICE FREQUENTLY 🎶🎼📓 The more you practice using your directing body language, the more comfortable you will be doing it in front of an actual choir. ■Play your favorite choral music and pretend that you are directing it. ■If you know another choir director, ask if you can “borrow” their (already trained) choir for a part of a rehearsal. Then ask for feedback or tips from the singers or the choir director. For live lessons and interactive class join us via https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Watch yourself

🎶🎬HOW TO DIRECT A CHOIR ✍🔑 ☝LEARNING HAND AND BODY LANGUAGE FOR DIRECTING 🎶📜👍 📁📝Season 1. Episode 4. WACTH YOURSELF🎶🎼📓 Watch yourself directing. Direct in front of a mirror or videotape yourself directing and determine whether your signals are clear or Not. For live lessons and interactive class join us via https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Go big

🎶🎬HOW TO DIRECT A CHOIR ✍🔑 ☝LEARNING HAND AND BODY LANGUAGE FOR DIRECTING 🎶📜👍 📁📝Season 1. Episode 3. GO BIG🎶🎼📓 Most signals must be exaggerated for your singers to see them clearly; particularly with a large choir or with children. However, try not to exaggerate so much that the audience would be distracted by your movements. For live lessons and interactive class join us via https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Sheet signals

🎶🎬HOW TO DIRECT A CHOIR ✍🔑 ☝LEARNING HAND AND BODY LANGUAGE FOR DIRECTING 🎶📜👍 📁📝Season 1. Episode 2. SHEET SIGNALS🎶🎼📓 Make yourself a “cheat sheet” of signals. Writing down the signals that you plan to use will lead to more consistency when used. For live lessons and interactive class join us via https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Watch other directors

🎶🎬HOW TO DIRECT A CHOIR ✍🔑 ☝LEARNING HAND AND BODY LANGUAGE FOR DIRECTING 🎶📜👍 📁📝Season 1. Episode 1. WATCH OTHER DIRECTORS 🎶🎼📓 Modeling your hand signals, body language, and facial expressions off of other directors is the best way to understand the kinds of signals to which experienced singers are already accustomed to. ♥Watch videos of other choir directors online. ♥Watch live performances of professional choirs and focus on what the director does and how the singers respond to each signal. ♥Go to live choir performances and watch the director. Be sure you choose a seat that enables a clear view of the director. Take notes about what seems to work especially well. ♥Sit in on a choir rehearsal and watch the director from the singers’ points of view. For live lessons and interactive class join us via https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

How to direct a choir

🎶🎬HOW TO DIRECT A CHOIR ✍🔑 📃 INTRODUCTION🗣 As a choir director, your job is to shape the sound of the choir, teach the music, and evaluate and correct any problems within the vocal/instruments performance. This is a skill acquisition series, you can start developing yourself from now. But for those who are already choir in their ministries, this will be an additional to your skills and equally correct some areas of your leadership. Episodes begins 8th May 2018, ensure you keep yourself connected. God bless you. For live lessons and interactive class join us via https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Translate your vocal range

🎹HOW TO FIND YOUR VOCAL RANGE🎵 🎹 IDENTIFYING AND CLASSIFYING YOUR RANGE🎵 🎶 Season 4. Episode 5. TRANSLATE YOUR VOCAL RANGE 📃🖋 Translate your vocal range into a voice type. Now that you have your vocal range written down using scientific pitch notation, you can use it to determine your vocal classification. Each voice type has an associated range; find which type aligns your full range. ■The typical ranges for each voice type are as follows: soprano B3-G6, mezzo-soprano G3-A5, alto E3-F5, countertenor G3-C6, tenor C3-B4, baritone G2-G4, bass D2-E4. ■Your range may not fit perfectly into these standard ranges. Choose the one that fits closest. ■If your full range does not seem to fit obviously into a single voice type, use your tessitura instead to see which type it most closely aligns with. You want to pick the voice type in which you will be most comfortable singing. ■So, if you, for instance, have a range of (D 2)G 2 -F 4(A 4), you would most likely be a baritone, the most common voice type for men. For live lessons and interactive class join us via https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w

Identifying and classifying partial octaves

🎹HOW TO FIND YOUR VOCAL RANGE🎵 🎹 IDENTIFYING AND CLASSIFYING YOUR RANGE🎵 🎶 Season 4. Episode 4. INCLUDE PARTIAL OCTAVES📃🖋 Include the partial octaves as well. It’s normal, for example, for someone to have a range of 1.5 octaves in full voice. The reason for the half is because the person could only comfortably sing three or four notes in the next octave. For live lessons and interactive class join us via https://t.me/joinchat/HX75GgrDht71Bi9HvZhz6w