HHS MEN’S CHORUS

Alex    Garrett    Jay    Derrick (the bass?!)   Tyler    Darren    Irvin    Max
I. Isn’t Ms. H wonderful?!

 Use of the room

 So musical, they are musical too
 Passionate about the pieces – loves them and they will too
 “Do it”
 Safety of the room
 Never pressure to sing alone
 Fabulous sequencing
 Use of 1o
 How she redirects off task behavior, and yet gives off-task behavior a
chance to grow into critical thinking and transfer tasks
 Teaching from the piano (+ and -)

II. Tonal Development and Production

Entry points:
1. Little connection from their speaking voices to singing voices
Teach “speaking voice” and “Use a singing voice”

 “Mrs. Doubtfire” echo model

 Mrs. Doubtfire singing… bring in concept of breath

2. Body Work
 Bone work:
 Stretching:
 Body Mapping of Breathing – Take a singing breath
 Sigh – fix the sigh
 Warm-up with bodywork focus

3. Tension Free
 Squeeze-sing model game
 Squeeze sing modeling of vowels
 Transfer the tone into the solfege warm-up in thirds

4. Falsetto – teach it

III. Pitch Matching

  Solfege echo patterns and pitch matching
 Echo chain game – a., b., c., in a key that works for all
 Take Time in Life – teach it all in a key that works
▪ Teach ostinato for Alleluia

IV. Transfer into the music: Three things

“Use a singing voice”
Take a singing breath
Tension Free
Pitch Matching

Alleluia: Sing first section – in two parts

Add the ostinato
FIX TONE

Cindy =

Lesson 2 – Rules!

Rule of the soft landing