A choir is the best place for a young singer to learn how to sing.
Every Choir does warm-ups, and will work on unity in tone, vowels, blend, intonation, etc. to achieve a better choral sound. Our choir will do this but also add more extensive music training for your child.
As part of our vocal training, we will have weekly
- sightsinging (learning to sing notes on a page without assistance of a piano),
- ear training (creating chords and harmonies as a group, listening for intonation and blend),
- and a focus on vocal production, (learning to do more with your voice - sing higher, lower, longer, softer, louder)
So much of singing is about learning to blend your tone with the voices around you, listening for and creating harmonies, and tuning to the voices around you. You can't get that in a private lesson, which is why a choir setting is the best place for a young singer to learn how to sing.
The other part of it is that a child's voice needs to learn to sound natural, free, open, and be agile and flexible. Choral music helps facilitate these attributes. It has a wider vocal range and opportunities to harmonize. There is a wide array of classical music written for children's choirs. Singing in a choir opens up a whole world of music that develops the voice way beyond solo childrens' literature.
"Classical Voice Training with a Choir Experience."
