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    What is so good about running a choir?
    richardwhennell
    • Jul 16, 2018
    • 3 min

    What is so good about running a choir?

    What is it about running a choir that keeps me engaged and interested?
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    richardwhennell
    • Dec 31, 2017
    • 2 min

    What a year?

    What a year it's been? Such a lot of good fun had by all at Vocalese. We've said goodbye sadly to a few members who have moved away or ju...
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    Songumentary Part 3 - voices in my head
    Admin
    • May 22, 2016
    • 1 min

    Songumentary Part 3 - voices in my head

    The third video shows some vocal recording for the new song for our Vocalese choir, along with me getting a gender makeover so that Girls...
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    Songumentary Part 2 - The instrumental bit
    Admin
    • May 22, 2016
    • 1 min

    Songumentary Part 2 - The instrumental bit

    A longer video - don't watch this on your mobile devices unless you're on a wifi network, or have unlimited data! In this video, the roug...
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    New Songumentary Part 1
    Admin
    • May 21, 2016
    • 1 min

    New Songumentary Part 1

    Part one of goodness knows how many to give you an idea of what I go through when arranging a new song for Vocalese from start to...well....
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    Singing and breathing - some "inspirational" thoughts
    Admin
    • May 19, 2016
    • 3 min

    Singing and breathing - some "inspirational" thoughts

    You'll a lot of disagreement amongst singers, pedagogues and scientific types throughout history about breathing techniques and the use o...
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    What is music to you?
    Admin
    • May 10, 2016
    • 2 min

    What is music to you?

    Music is my life. That may sound pretty boring, and on paper, it looks kind of boring to me too. However, once you start to look at the w...
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    Recordering session
    Admin
    • May 2, 2016
    • 1 min

    Recordering session

    So this blog post is my first ever video blog! I can see me getting to like this new technology... Anyway, Adiemus is just about done. I w...
    40 views0 comments
    Sing moist! Improve your singing through drinking!
    Admin
    • Apr 29, 2016
    • 2 min

    Sing moist! Improve your singing through drinking!

    So a few people have asked me how they can improve their singing. It is a jolly good question, and actually not one that I can really tac...
    46 views0 comments
    Learn as you teach
    Admin
    • Apr 22, 2016
    • 2 min

    Learn as you teach

    I've always been amazed at how much I learn about stuff myself through teaching it in the first place. The simple process of communicatin...
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    And we're off!
    Admin
    • Apr 21, 2016
    • 2 min

    And we're off!

    I promise to not get over-indulgent, but I had to put a few words down to describe how my week has gone so far. I started back at school ...
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    Music - ointment for the soul
    Admin
    • Apr 11, 2016
    • 2 min

    Music - ointment for the soul

    OK, so my workday did not start well. Stressed with all kinds of things running round my head. Trying to get into an essay which is due s...
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    Singers are vocal athletes
    Admin
    • Apr 9, 2016
    • 1 min

    Singers are vocal athletes

    So I've just set the new website live! Vocalese is officially an entity! So, here we go. Sing because you love it, because it makes you f...
    22 views0 comments
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