Singing your heart out

Recently we've had a specialist project week.

Now there were many choices of project you could have done; advanced pop harmony, yoga for musicians, Tudor choral workshop, collaborative composition. 

But I chose the fun option of Gospel Choir :) 

A week of sunshine and singing fab uplifting songs, yes please. 

So the week began on Tuesday with our first session. We met Nikki Allen who was leading the project week and she explained to us that we would be doing a short concert Friday afternoon. We had a little discussion of a couple of songs we wanted to have a go at. so we began starting off with a bit of oh when the saints, and swing low. Then we tried a song called leave it there. It went good for a first go at harmonies and singing together as a choir. After trying it through a couple of times we got into the swing of things and picked it up straight away.

So we cracked on with more songs learning them from memory and a few lyric sheets. It was great learning it this way, it gave so much flexibility and we loved learning the songs. Starting off with a simple song called, Leave It There, which is quite a nice song.
Moving onto, sister act songs, obviously, and some new ones we hadn't heard of before.

Through these we learnt the art of ad libbing. Oh yes, ad libbing. That was a fun time! People did really well and had a ball with it.

The best bit was the concert. We were all in high spirits as we got in our lines and got ready to sing our first song. The solo's were great, the ad libbing was brilliant and I hope we get to do this again!

http://youtu.be/jWGjqBS5tNQ check out the video of us!