After a warm-up with our voices, tongues and brains, we finished off Once Upon a December. Link words together as in ‘dim a san ember’ for ‘dim as an ember’ Tenors and Basses as you sing change with the chords and don’t flow with the underlying piano part. Also do not sing The Tune in ‘Things my heart seems to know..’ if it feels too low, you’re singing it wrong! When singing the word ‘storm’ in ‘…through a silver storm..’ change the vowel sound slightly to an ‘ar’ so it sounds like...

Our Charming Chairman arrived early to give the Sops the benefit of her talents and had a very informative and useful vocal coaching session. Don’t want to give too much away at this stage as the Altos are next to have this great experience on 20 October followed by the Tenors and Basses on 27 October. The only info to be divulged is it is best to arrive by 18:30 (if possible) so you can warm up your voice before the main event. Elliot started us off with a new song to learn this week. ...

With only five weeks left with Elliot we still have a lot of ground to cover to learn some new songs as well as cementing in the ones we’ve already done. It certainly didn’t help with the keyboard being temperamental and not working for the first half of the rehearsal! However, with this challenge, Elliot was able to improvise and start us off with a warm up with tongue circles, singing up and down the range on an ‘ng’ siren, plus sticking our tongues out as far as possible and then...