Lovely to see you all this morning!

We sang some summery songs and are planning to squeeze in a new recording before we finish for the summer. You can vote for your favourite song here

https://s.surveyplanet.com/dle9d7at

Thanks to everyone who took part in our video project! Here it is!

Today’s favourite were…

I wonder who voted on the song with no name…….

See you in a fortnight!

Thanks for bearing with me today while I did this….. we call it ‘zoom doom’ amongst the online choir brigade! In my haste to get started for part 2, I’ve sent the audio to be saved in a mysterious location and now can’t find it….. I will do better!

I FOUND IT!!!

It was lovely to see you all today! Really pleased with the sound we’ve created on ‘Together Again’ – well done and thank you to everyone who took part in the audio recording. Now for the video…. PLEASE send something in!! Even if you’re not on the audio recording! You’re still here and part of the project! I’ll be making a first cut on Friday so please get as much to me as possible by Thursday evening.

‘Human’ by the Killers came top of the poll and so we’ll start to learn that at the next session which is Wednesday 15th June 8-9pm.

…. and this really made my day. Thank you xxx

Lovely to see you this windy grey morning!

We had a quick warm up and then worked on ‘Together Again’. You’ve got just over a week to get your audio recordings in!

Please do your audio recordings first concentrating on the sound. Once these are done, the video can be done later, concentrating on the picture!

I’d recommend you learn the yellow part first….. everyone record that….. then learn your additional part and record that – saves confusion for you all.

We talked about the style of the song and how to use a light voice with spaces between the words. The oohs are all long and flowing like toffee but the words are more like skittles (the sweets, not the ten pin variety).

With the video, I’m going to ask everyone to record themselves singing the whole song to camera and I’ll put a demo out of this in the next couple of days. The more personality we can get into the video the better. Even if it’s just dancing. And laughing. It’s all about YOU.

Here’s the chorus kari-ography

We finished with a rousing rendition of ‘Don’t leave me this way’ – brilliant!

We started with our warm up ‘Turn Around’ – thanks to everyone who got stuck in with this!

We learned the harmonies for the back half of ‘Together Again’ – you can hear it on the audio or there’s a link to the video teaching on the ‘Together Again Tutorials’ page on this website.

And just for the sheer fun of it, we sang 1000 years and Mr Brightside!

Thanks for all the comments saying that the session had set you up for the day. And thanks to Rosie for making an appearance.

Sooo lovely to see you all again this morning!

We sang all of our songs and look at the poll results!

Next week were are meeting 8-9pm and we’ll be working on ‘Together Again’ as our recording and video project. I’ll teach you the two parts for ‘1000 Years’ which is a really lovely version. And I’ll find some other loveliness for us to share and sing together.

Please spread the word about the choir! The more people that can benefit from the joy of singing the better. x See you next week.