Choral Clarity

It can be so frustrating when one or two singers negatively impact our rehearsal with their lack of pitch matching. That droning sound can be frustrating to everyone in the room! Sometimes these struggling singers show improvement when isolated, yet their vocal progress doesn’t translate back into the rehearsal setting. How do you help those struggling singer during the rehearsal? How […]

We all want our choirs to sound great. So what do we do when a “tone-deaf” singer wants to join our choir? Some singers that walk in our door will bring down the flow of our rehearsal and negatively impact our sound. What do we do? Do we send them away?   This blog post […]

Your Ultimate Choir Midterm Exam Do you have a Choir Midterm? If you don’t, there’s no need to worry! It’s not too late and we have you covered. This choir midterm exam will not take up any class time, won’t burden your students in any way, and it will be a clear assessment of how well […]

If you want your rehearsals to improve, now is a GREAT time to make the appropriate changes.   Think back to December….. Were your rehearsals flowing perfectly? Were there behavioral issues? Were there disruptions that you wanted to fix? Did you want to improve the focus of your ensemble? There are simple changes that we can make to […]

Do you have singers who miss your concert? – Do you have parents of singers who booked a family vacation that conflicts with your concert? – Do you have singers with personal conflicts that prevent them from attending the concert? – Do you have singers who get sick the night of the concert? – Do you have singers who are a no-show at the concert?   […]

Most of what your audience members see and hear at your concert have LITTLE TO DO with how well your ensemble sings. There are ACTIONS you can take in both our preparation and at our concert to improve our concert greatly. Most of these actions are overlooked by choral directors. I know I overlooked many of these actions earlier in […]