What training is available? What do people say?
How much does it cost? Want to book?
Email me Home PageWant to set up a community singing group?
Who is it for? How does it work? Time Budget
What will it cost? Want to book?
What training is available?
1. How to teach a song
Including: breaking songs into parts, eye-contact, setting tempo, keeping time.
2. Articulation
Including: resonance, timbre, vowel sounds, beginnings and endings of songs.
3. Warm-up techniques
Including: breathing techniques, waking up the diaphragm, exercising the vocal chords, call and response sounds into improvisation.
4. Preparation for performance
Including: confidence in your repertoire, introducing material, eye-contact, beginnings, endings and in-between moments, watching your conductor.
5. Additional repertoire
Choose from World Music, Beatles, Traditional, Gospel, Seasons.
6. Songwriting
Improvisation session culminating in an acapella song composed and arranged by the members of your singing group.
All training will be tailored to suit the needs of your group. You do not need to be able to read music or have any previous music training.
What do people say?
Con Brio Women's Singing Group in Portsmouth:"I so enjoyed standing in the centre of the circle and listening to how we sound"
"It was great to learn why we do a warm-up"
"When can you come back?!"
How much does it cost?
Minimum 2 hour session: £125.00 plus expenses
Series of 5 x 2 hour sessions: £550.00 plus expenses
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Want to set up a community singing group?
A Year Long Project to Set up a new community choir and train participants in order for it to be self-sustaining. This package works with the organisational and administrative support of an Arts Officer.
Who is it for?
Members of a community, eg young people from a youth group, elders from a day centre, members of the public who respond to advertising and promotion.How does it work?
Stage 1: Planning - Working in conjunction with local Arts Officer, access database, do mailshot adverts in papers to recruit, organise launch day.
Stage 2 - Over one term, get participants singing together, bonded.
Stage 3 - Develop their infrastructure, admin team/choir leaders.
Stage 4 - Disengage from choir, leave them self-sufficient, disengage, provide aftercare and monitoring.Time Budget
Planning 2 days per week over 3 months: = 26 days
Phase 1: (Choir storming/norming/forming, singing)
One day per week over 3 months: = 12 days
Phase 2: One day per week over 3 months: = 12 days
Phase 3: (Report, aftercare, monitoring): = 10 daysTotal number of days during year: = 60 days
What will it cost?
Fee for facilitator (does not include expenses, resources, travel)
Rate of pay: = £300 per day
Total fee: £300 x 60 = £18,000
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