- Become a better individual singer.
- Become a better ensemble singer.
- Own your music.
- Sing with passion.
The following four posts elaborate on these topics.
My name is Manoj Padki. I am a quartet coach. I created this blog to outline my coaching ideas. I sing with and am the baritone section-leader of Nashua's Granite Statesmen, a championship barbershop chorus. I am the founder and director of The Harmony Cats, a mixed-age a cappella group, consisting of members ages 8 to 50.
The following four posts elaborate on these topics.
Two key tools to becoming a better ensemble:
Use them often! It will help you enormously by getting in synch with the other singers/section. Recording the duets will also help you become more aware of being in/out of synch.
This would seem to be the first step in singing a piece of music well, yet it is amazing how many quartets and choruses choose not to know their music.
Again, recording yourself and checking your own singing against the written piece is the best way to own your music.
As a bonus, you can use the tracks to record yourself singing against the other tracks. We have used this tool with great success at the Granite Statesmen to take our contest package to the next level.
All you need is:
You will be amazed at the growth of your ensemble once you start using this approach.