Clinton gives useful tips on how to improve your learning of songs during your choir rehearsals.
How to create cohesion within your choir.
Using a song to demonstrate the 3 dependancies.
How to use your ‘Minds ears/mouth’ to improve your repetitive learning.
Practicing together and internalising your sound whilst listing to others.
Understanding the importance of communication through your face to capture an audience.
Hearing yourself in a choir can be tricky, Clinton’s gives practical advice on how to hear you whilst listening to others.
Clinton put listening skills to the test in exercise.
Clinton teach choir to open up their dynamic range in synergy.
Getting the choir to punctuate their words with the awareness of sound and silence. Theses small shifts in awareness make a great difference.
Clinton teaches choir how to form their mouth shape together to create ‘one voice’
Clinton teaches choir how to apply vibrato through shape, rhythm and tone.
‘Pitch Drifting’ is a common problem in many choirs.
Clinton brings an awareness to the importance of Key placement.
Clinton emphasises on rhythmical interaction between sections. Sometimes exercises come from the strangest of places!
Choirs often pay attention to the sound they make.
In this exercise Clinton gets the choir to concentrate on the silence rather than the sound.
Previous exercise added to music.
Clinton teaches choir to move up and down in harmony to understanding the importance of interval awareness.
Clinton share why singing (to some) is one of the hardest things to do.
Clinton teaches why the vowel shapes are so improtant to the overall sound of the choir.