[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir] To make singing as accessible as possible, I don’t use sheet music when I teach. This often freaks out people who are used to having a score in their...
[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir] I teach songs without using any kind of musical notation. Like other Members of the Natural Voice Practitioners’ Network I believe that singing should...
[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir] Last tiMe I wrote about whether it’s better to be over-rehearsed or under-prepared. I talked about people who like to spend a long tiMe working on on...
[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir] Over the years I have run choirs and singing groups all based on the saMe principles, but in different locations. The general mix of genders, ages, backgro...
[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir] I have to admit that I’m not really a lyric person. I might have been listening to a particular pop song in English for years when I suddenly realise...
[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir] I’m often asked by choir Members to play a recording of a song before I start teaching it so they can get an idea of how it sounds. ...
[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir] I want to share with you how I view open-access community choirs. I’d like to think that the choirs I run are a bit different from...
[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir] The Sing Up programMe for schools was set up by the UK governMent in January 2007 and was funded by them until April 2012. Their aim is to “give ever...
[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir] I’m all in favour of confident singers (see How to be a confident singer). The problem is there are two kinds and one of them can be disruptive...
[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir] I really, really don’t like performing outdoors (I’ll coMe to why in a moMent)! But soMetiMes it’s unavoidable, so what can we do to make...
