Lots of things can and will go wrong when singing, there are so many things that have to be co-ordinated it is bound to happen. Usually the problem lies before the point in which it becomes noticeable that something has gone wrong. Yet we focus mostly on the sections that go wrong and for obvious […]
Singing is full of them: 1 Singing is easy, everybody can sing, well there are only about 3% of people who can’t sing and will never be able to learn as they have what is called amusia and as of yet there is no cure. Yet around 59% of adults identify as not being able […]
Clear diction, articulation and a good sound are very important when singing as the audience must be able to hear what you are singing about. Beautiful sound is created on the vowel and clear text is aided by use of consonants. Consonants need to be short, crisp, clear and concise as they contain no inherent […]
On the evening of 7th May the choir held an opening evening to give the public a sense of what it is like being part of Mersey Wave. Following from the evening 4 members have joined us so far with other agreeing to come along after our run of performances are out of the way […]
Long notes require support, movement, dynamics and a sense of pulse other wise they are just boring to listen to and sing. The sound is held on the vowel and the final consonant sung as and when the MD wants that. Only sing the final consonant until the last minute. Consonants do not carry pitch […]
High notes need to soar above the rest of the choir, freely, they need support from the body and space in the mouth. The soft palate must be lifted, the note must be prepared, by which I mean you must know it is coming, especially if you have just been singing lower notes as it […]
Low notes in female voices are less resonant and so less easy to hear within all the other notes being sung by the voice groups in a choir. It serves only to stress both sopranos and altos to ask one group to sing quieter and the other louder in order to just be heard. What […]
Are you supporting your voice when you sing? A lot of people use this term yet do not completely understand what it actually means. What is supporting what? Why should we support? How do we support? Support means to control the in-breath as well as the escaping breath to produce a richer, rounder sound using […]
Our meet-the-member this week is Lynn Bass, who joined the Soprano section in 2023. A friend invited her, and one thing she particularly enjoys about singing in a choir is the opportunity to sing a variety of music in harmony with different voices. Lynn is an artist. She tells us “I trained at art in […]
Introducing our members, we begin with a stalwart of the Tenor section, Karl Atkinson. He has been a member of the choir since the early days, where we would meet in the local pub in Hale Village. Asked why he joined, he says, “It was local to me, and I wanted to sing”. Enjoying the […]
