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new-singer [2023/01/02 16:46] – Added “without using the score” Chelsea Alventosa | new-singer [2023/09/17 20:25] – Iain Hallam | ||
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Your **first two weekly rehearsals are free**. In your first week or so, we'll check your **vocal range** to suggest which voice part best suits your voice and ask you to **sing a line back** to someone from the music team. Our membership team will take **contact details** from you including an email address so we can send you more information about joining. | Your **first two weekly rehearsals are free**. In your first week or so, we'll check your **vocal range** to suggest which voice part best suits your voice and ask you to **sing a line back** to someone from the music team. Our membership team will take **contact details** from you including an email address so we can send you more information about joining. | ||
- | After your first or second rehearsal, we’ll make an account for you on our website and ask you to sign a **copyright agreement**. Then we can give you access to our web site’s singer pages to download **sheet music and audio teach tracks** to help you to learn songs. You don’t have to read music to sing with us, but we do give you a copy of the songs we’re singing during the rehearsal until you can access the web site. | + | After your first or second rehearsal, we’ll make an account for you on our website and ask you to sign a **copyright agreement**. Then we can give you access to our web site’s singer pages to download **sheet music and audio teach tracks** to help you to learn songs. |
**Come along to the pub** at the end of the evening and have a chat with the other singers! | **Come along to the pub** at the end of the evening and have a chat with the other singers! | ||
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===== Learning songs ===== | ===== Learning songs ===== | ||
- | We learn around six to eight new songs each year. Although we work on the musicality of songs in rehearsal, **you’re expected to learn the notes in your own time** and put in some practice at home during the week. We also have a back catalogue of around 25 songs that will take longer to learn; we think you can get up to speed over a couple of years with the chorus and you won't need to be able to sing these all to start with! | + | We learn around six to eight new songs each year. Although we work on the musicality of songs in rehearsal, **you’re expected to learn the notes in your own time** and put in some practice at home during the week. We also have a back catalogue of around 25 songs that will take longer to learn; we think you can get up to speed over a couple of years with the chorus and you won't need to be able to sing these all to start with! Our repertoire songs are labelled "year 1" or "year 2" in the recommended learning order and when we send out lists of the songs to be practised in rehearsal. |
===== Performing ===== | ===== Performing ===== | ||
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Every year we try to take part in a **major competition** and put on several large **shows**, plus we take on a number of gig bookings from busking to private engagements. We also schedule three or more **weekend coaching sessions** spaced throughout the year where outside specialists help improve our techniques and performance. | Every year we try to take part in a **major competition** and put on several large **shows**, plus we take on a number of gig bookings from busking to private engagements. We also schedule three or more **weekend coaching sessions** spaced throughout the year where outside specialists help improve our techniques and performance. | ||
- | **Chorus members are expected to take part in as many of these activities as they can.** | + | **Chorus members are expected to take part in as many of these activities as they can**, and we ask members to let us know in advance their attendance using a spreadsheet in the singers' |
===== Special requirements ===== | ===== Special requirements ===== | ||
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===== More information ===== | ===== More information ===== | ||
- | There' | + | There' |
===== Have fun! ===== | ===== Have fun! ===== |