Choral Ed. Ep. 15, 16 & 17

Ep. 15

Vocal exercises to wake up the brain

• Audiation a word

• Imagery

• Hand signs

  • Show hand signs, then have them sing it

  • Level up by making this continuous

• Reverse Solfege

  • Sing the intervals and have them do the solfege

• Changing the pitch up a half step over 6 beats

• Improvisation

Ep. 16

Kinestetich Movement

• Pulse

  • Patching Takedemi

  • Tapping the shoulder of your neighbor

  • Marking time

• Phrasing

  • Drawing the peak of the phrase with your arm

  • Stepping forward on the most important word

  • Teach them a conducting pattern

• Implement movement into your warmups and rehearsing rep

Breathing

• Using your arms as an aid, exhale for 12-24 counts on a sustained his or quarter note hisses

• Conduct the ensemble on a hissing quarter note

  • Unifies tempo dynamics, articulation

• Clap on ‘x’ exercise

  • Snap and ask them to clap on a count

  • Stop counting

  • Stop snapping

Onset

• Consonants that give an onset on the breath vs glottal

  • Fo FRR Fo Frr Fo        

• Prep and conduct vowel onsets together as an ensemble to start them on the breath

Rounds

• Can be used to target

  • tempo/pulse

  • Balance/part-independence

  • Cut offs

  • Onsets

• Keep rounds freah by having different cohesion element or goal to focus on

  • Work on onsets this time/ breathe at the same time

Implementing rep

• Isolate different rhythmic passages or wordy phrases on notes of a major scale

• Releases & phrasing: Add movement to rests

• Count sing sustained note for phrasing

Ep. 17

• Singing is joy

• Dumba

• Pizza Hut

• Questions and the answer is oh I love to sing or no in a 123454321 pattern

• Face smash