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“WHO DO YOU PLAY FOR?”. There is an “I” in TEAM, After All!. Pre-Game Activities. Class Overview Meet the Harborlites Team! Learn about our “Game Plan!” Watch us “Play Ball!” with Pam! Meet the Manager!. Pre-Game Activities. A Little History Harborlites is 45 years old!
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“WHO DO YOU PLAY FOR?” There is an “I” in TEAM, After All!
Pre-Game Activities Class Overview • Meet the Harborlites Team! • Learn about our “Game Plan!” • Watch us “Play Ball!” with Pam! • Meet the Manager!
Pre-Game Activities A Little History • Harborlites is 45 years old! • Pam has directed Harborlites 13 years • Harborlites has many second place medals • Finally, a Wild Card Chorus in 2002! • Regional Champions only THREE times Region 21 is home to three International Champion Choruses – San Diego % Scottsdale % Harborlites
Our Game Plan X X X X O O O X X O
Our Game Plan FOCUS: Member Education Programs: • Vocal Gold • Visual Gold • Fitness Gold
The Vocal Gold Program Consists of three elements: • The Vocal Gold Workshop • A new focus for “Vocal Warm-Ups” • Individual Vocal Instruction (IVIs)
The Vocal Gold Workshop • Purpose • Provide comprehensive/standardized vocal production instruction to all chorus members • Ensure that all members: • Understand basics of proper vocal production • Sing consistently with correct/healthy vocal technique • Sing as a chorus with uniform vocal technique • Speak a common vocal production/technique language • “Institutionalize” good singing as a part of our chorus culture
The Vocal Gold Workshop • Workshop includes instruction in: • The Body as a Musical Instrument/Resonance • Breathing and Phonation • “Balancing and Blending” the Voice • Articulation • After first Vocal Gold, Harborlites received “Most Improved Chorus” award at regional competition
Voice Building Time(a.k.a. Warm-Ups) • Beginning of each rehearsal, after physical warm-ups, 15 – 20 minutes • Members expected to come to rehearsal with their voices “warmed-up” • Focus: • Constant reinforcement of “The Basics” • Addition of more advanced vocal technique • Preparing singers physically and mentally to learn • Vocal exercises are relevant to music being learned and/or currently performed
Individual Voice Instruction (IVIs) • Offered continually (year round), before each rehearsal and outside rehearsal • Requires “staff” of trained IVI trainers • Focus is on improving each singer’s vocal skills – not on notes/words/passing tapes
The Visual Gold Workshop • Basic Showmanship Instruction • Rip open your shower curtain! NOW! • Yes, she said MORE energy! • Building Visual Self-Awareness • Yikes! Is that what I REALLY look like? • What’s your “Performance Think” saying to you? • Individual Showmanship Instruction • You put your right foot in, you put your right foot out … yep, she said shake it all about! • The Psychology of Competition • “C’s” Your Mind! (Confidence, Control, Commitment, Concentration) • Trust, trust, trust!
The Fitness Gold Program Consists of two elements: • Voluntary weight loss support group • Running the Sets!
Fitness Gold LET’S GET PHYSICAL! • Good physical warm-ups prepare the body to move ANDto sing! • Good physical warm-ups teach members to free the body and lose their fear of exceeding their personal space “GO BIG OR GO HOME!”
Play Ball! Music/Visual Learning Process/Philosophy • Personal commitment and responsibility! • MVP (Most Valuable Performer) - Every member is important to the team! • Attendance at regular rehearsals and coaching sessions mandatory • Music, learning CD’s, choreography videos available on the Internet • Regularly scheduled individual evaluations of vocal and visual performance
Play Ball! Music/Visual Learning Process/Philosophy (cont’d) • Extra assistance from the Choreography Team and Music Team • Early Choreography Sessions and Sectionals on regular rehearsal nights and on alternate evenings • All songs are rehearsed in performance mode • Running sets regularly
Play Ball! Demonstrations • Working the Music • Working the Visual • Working The Two Together • Working the Stamina
Working the Stamina Running the Sets • Builds cardiovascular and physical strength • Reinforces the visual plan • Choreographically • Performance flow/timing • Transitions • Must be done consistently throughout performance preparation time • AGAIN!
Post-Game Wrap Up Meet the Manager Pam Pieson • “Leadership Gold” • Heart and Passion Y
Leadership Gold • Every member matters – no “second string” • Every member is her own personal leader • Responsible for her own performance results • Requires a great deal of personal and group discipline and focus • Results in performances that are thrilling not only for the audience, but also for each individual performer!
Questions, Anyone? • Please go to our website if you have questions for us! • www.harborliteschorus.org • We will answer them as soon as we return from Detroit!
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