Stay Connected
- Trills on a Tuesday
- Feb 19
- 3 min read
The Range is the house band for Royal Mid Surrey Golf Club and they are having their very first gig on Friday 17 April at 19:30. The backing singers, The Rangettes, will be very familiar to you (Amy, Catherine W, Evgeniia, Karen & Pauline). Come along for a fun evening and support them and the Captains' charities. Can't promise Jim Carrey will be there.
Eamonn was back and he put us through our paces with the songs we had previously sung.
He did seem reasonably impressed as to where we are, but the main thing to come out of last night for all the songs is to be connected with the phrasing and for us to be connected to Eamonn to watch his direction on timing and finishing.
This basically means joining the consonants from the end of one word and joining it on to the beginning of the next word.
e.g. in Irish Blessing ‘….his hand’ would be changing the ‘s’ of ‘his’ to a ‘z’ sound and joining it onto hand so you would sing ‘…hi zhand’
…. and Vincent ‘… they would not listen they did not know how’ would be …’they did not listen they did no tknow how’
You can apply this connection through many of our songs. Once you get this concept it will just come naturally.
We are not "A Choir of Men"… but this term we’ve certainly started to sound suspiciously well-balanced. With the welcome arrival of several fine Basses and Tenors.
In fact, with all this new depth of tone, we could be getting dangerously close to a full-bodied rendition of Dance With My Father — though we’re not entirely sure Eamonn would approve of the choreography.
Hints and Tips
Irish Blessing – Sop 1s be ready for that high ‘again’ as it always seems to come as a surprise.
Make Your Own Kind of Music – melt into the last ‘oh’ at the end.
Altos relax into your ‘ooh, ooh, oohs’
Crossing the Bar – this was a little choppy keep those connections in the phrases as mentioned above.
Vincent – Tenors and Basses, try to learn the first verse off by heart. That way you can look up and watch Eamonn.
This song is all about mental health in the verses, so has a different feel to the chorus which is about the art and beauty.
Watch your breathing in this song, or rather lack of it!
Do not breathe between …’one as ooh’ (Tenors & Basses)
‘…. As beautiful as you’ (Sops)
Altos be bold when you get to sing the tune after harmonising. You are telling the story of suicide. Pronounce the ‘t’ in ‘often’ as it will help with the diction of the storytelling.
‘Now I think I know….’ Is a definite mood change
‘but I could have told you Vincent…’ should be tender and gentle
You’re the Voice – is relentless and requires stamina, energy and smiles!
Really sound out the ‘w’ on the ‘whoas’ you are even allowed to take a quick breath between the ‘whoa’ whoa’
‘How long can you look at each other (wait, wait, wait) down the barrel of a gun’
There should be a VERY LOUD ‘Whoa’ at the end, so keep up that energy until the end!
Here comes the Flood. Eamonn asked us to listen and here it is. We will be starting it next next week, so listen to the Peter Gabriel version in preparation!
another Peter Gabriel. A little more upbeat
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