Episode 154: Episode 154 - The Dr. Is In (Listener Question): What’s your Fav Choir Stuff for Choir Camp or Choir Workshops?

Planning a Summer Choral Camp? Thinking of hosting a Choir Recruitment Workshop? Looking for some fun engagers or warm-ups to spice up the end of the school year or season?  This episode is for you! After getting a listener question for “my fav choir stuff for summer camp” and after teaching a MUED methods class on “classroom management,” I figured, this is the perfect time to create a solo episode. This episode shares my “formula” and some of my favorite ideas. It starts with “What do I want the student to learn?” and “How can we get to there together?” I then break it down into:  What’s the hook?What’s the transfer? What’s the practice? What’s the application? Below are some of my trade and true favorite hooks, transfers, practices, and application routines - borrow them, adapt them, change them, do whatever you need to connect with YOUR singers, YOUR purpose, and YOUR musical image - then let me know how it goes! Have fun! Songs features in this episode: Closer - Chainsmokers ft HalseyHold My Hand - Jess GlennBim Bom (little body percussion warm-up song)Like I’m Gonna Lose You - Meghan TrainorSwedish Counting Song (with optional snaps, claps, and stand/sit)The Decades Blast: Headvoice - stole this from Arreon Harley Emerson - Kirk Franklin, RevolutionAnd scooping up to it - Drop it Like its Hot - SnoopEh vowel - Staying alive - Bee GeesAh and Oh - September - Earth Wind and FireOo and oh and Ah - Yellow Brick Road - Elton JohnUh and Ah - Tom’s Diner - Suzane VegaOther quick teaching vocal tech options:He Has Done Marvelous Things - Maria Ellis! Fine by MeColor (both Evan Powers) Some of my fav “teach in a day songs” - in no order, just as I thought of them:  ROUNDS: Umoja - Zanaida RoblesHebrew MelodyBe Like a Bird - Abbie BetinisYonder Come DayFreedom is Calling Asante SanaIpharadisiThis Pretty PlanetAlleluia RoundOCTAVOS: I Believe - Mark MillerMore Love - Mark MillerTwo African Pieces - arr Andrea RamseyThree Things - Ryan MainTwo Shaker Canons - Ron JeffersFeel Good - arr. BakerStorm is Passing Over - arr. BakerMusic of Life - B E BoykinUbi Caritas - Victor JohnsonTurn the World Around - arr. Mark HayesDream Keeper - Rollo Dillworth I Started Out Singing - Jocelyn HagenWatch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/E-_rBi6wj8k The Music (ed) Matters Podcast is sponsored by our friends over at Perform International. Thinking of going on tour domestically or abroad, want to take a solo tour, or team up with a dynamic festival? PI offers the best educationally sound and culturally significant experiences! Check them out, and tell them Emmy sent you :) Perform-International.com  Order your copy of “The Business of Choir”: https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/the-business-of-choir-book-g10713 or check out the website, businessofchoir.com. Join us over at Patreon.com/MusicEdMatters for monthly meet-ups, monthly bonus episodes, special content, and more!**Show music originally written by Mr. Todd Monsell**Episode infographic photo by Donnie Biggs/Fairfax County Public Schools