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Hi all,

I may have asked this last year...but I can't recall.

I have a choir that meets during the school day and none can be excluded.

Well, at least 5 of them can't match pitch at all. And, bless their hearts, they sing off key with very loud, noticeable voices.

What do you do? I try to walk around the room and sing near them, to get them to hear the correct pitches, but after 6 meetings, they're still singing loud and proud on the wrong pitches.

My school before this one had an after school choir with an audition process. My school now has a band and orchestra, so I usually get the leftover kids who don't want to play instruments, not necessarily kids who want to be in a choir. And none can be excluded.
Mrs H Have you tried using whisper phones or some such device? That way they can hear themselves while singing with the group, and hopefully hear that they don't match pitch. Maybe you could work with these few separately one day and just do some pitch matching activities. I would bill it as, I love your enthusiasm! Let's work on your pitch matching so t...See More
Aug 24, 2015
JJ-AZ I have a "y'all come" choir and even though kids want to bet there, some still aren't matching pitch. I always talk about it being so important in a choir to blend our voices and that if an audience member says that they could hear one person's voice louder than another, then that's not good. So instead of calling attention in the group (...See More
Aug 24, 2015
Charlotte I also talk about blend in the first rehearsal, and tell them to "listen louder than you sing." I say if you can't hear the person next to you, you might be singing too loud. I get them to sing in small groups and move kids around to find the best blend, then make a seating chart.

It's HARD when you have several enthusiastic (rea...See More
Aug 28, 2015
DonnaR/CA On 8/28/15, Charlotte wrote: > And I agree about the whisper phones - they are great and > cheap to make!

If you are in a building that houses Kindergarten, ask your kinder teachers. It is quite a possibility that they already have these -- either handmade or commercially made -- because they are great for getting children to hear th...See More
Aug 29, 2015


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