Choral Clarity Presents: Memorizing doesn’t need to be a goal in order for it to occur during our rehearsals.These 12 tips can improve rehearsal flow, the way singers “buy-in” to our music selections, and the way our singers can memorize their music without being required to give any additional time! Here are 12 Tips for Memorizing Music Within Rehearsal 12 Effective […]
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How To “Teach” Memorizing Music Without Even Trying
Choral Clarity Blog Presents: How To “Teach” Memorizing Music Without Even Trying Are you tired of requiring your students to go home and memorize their music? Are you tired of threatening part tests? Have you just given up on the idea of memorization altogether? I would like to share with you an approach that doesn’t […]
Don’t Make Them Memorize!
Choral Clarity Blog Presents: Ideally, our choir should have their music memorized for concerts; it will make for a better concert than having our members hidden behind crinkly paper and being blinded by little dots with words attached to them. With their music memorized at the concert, they will be able to be more responsive […]
11 Choir Halloween Tricks (and Treats)
Choir Clarity Blog Presents: If we want to keep our students engaged throughout the year, we need to find opportunities to “change-up” our daily rehearsals. Halloween is a great excuse for “keeping things interesting”, AND it can also be used quite productively! Make your Choir Halloween Rehearsal memorable, creative, and useful! It doesn’t have to […]
The 7 Keys to Having Awesome SIght-Singers Throughout Your Choir
Choral Clarity Blog Presents: Even beginning choirs can still become filled with great sight-singers over the course of the year. When choirs are filled with sight-singers, rehearsal moves faster, singers remain focused, more music is learned, and the music-making process occurs sooner. With this increased productivity comes more enjoyment for everyone. But in order to get […]
The Best Ear-Training Exercise You Will Ever Use
Choral Clarity Blog Presents: There are many approaches to developing the ear. I believe that this one exercise is the very best tool for singers to develop their ear at the secondary level. This exercise is equally effective for beginning, intermediate, and advanced singers. I firmly believe that this is: The Best Ear-Training Exercise You […]