Summer Seminar

“Camp Orange Blossom” Supporting Materials:

Camp Orange Blossom Schedule (for online viewing)

Camp Orange Blossom Program (includes competition insert)

Sharon Babb

“One Song At A Time”

Director and Music Teams Workshop

Download all the handouts for the Friday Director/Music Teams Workshop as a folder from Google Drive here.

Start Your Engines

• Freeing the Voice (pdf)
• I’m Not Crazy, I’m Vocalizing (pdf)
• Junk Food Song (pdf)
• Mo Mo Mo Exercise (pdf)
• Raise Your Scores Warm-Up (pdf)
• Singing High – Singing Over the Break – Advanced Singing Over the Break (pdf)
• Vocal Exercises by Lila Mori (pdf)
• Vocal Exercises for Phonation and Resonation (pdf)
• Vocal Production_Warm Ups for Directors (pdf)
• Warm Ups and Rounds (pdf)

Leveling the Race Track

• Breathing Range (pdf)
• SAI Workout CDs for Sale (pdf)
• Level Numbers (pdf)
• Performance Level Characteristics (pdf)
• Performance Level Guidelines (pdf)
• Making the Leap (pdf)
• Necessary Coaches (pdf)

On the Test Track

• Battle Station Rehearsals (pdf)
• Rehearsin’ Better (pdf)
• From Vickie Maybury (pdf)

Choosing the Right Vehicle for the Race

• Choosing Contest Music (pdf)
• Characteristics of Strong Contest Music (pdf)
• What Makes a Good Arrangement (pdf)

Earning Your Learner’s Permit

• Riser Placement Strategies Sudoku (pdf)
• Mini Chorus Tag (pdf)
• Learning New Music? (pdf)
• 5-Step Procedure (pdf)
• 12 Steps to Learning Music (pdf)
• Steps in Preparing a Song (pdf)
• Somewhere Over the Rainbow Analysis (pdf)

Feeding the Pit Crew

• Being a Director Requires (pdf)

Arrangers Workshop

Quartet Workshop

Friday Night & Saturday General Sessions

Download all the handouts for the Friday General Session as a folder from Google Drive here.

Focus on Performance Today

• Scoring (pdf)
• Symmetry, etc. (pdf)
• Energy (pdf)
• Performing Skills Strata and Facets (pdf)

Download all the handouts for the Saturday General Sessions as a folder from Google Drive here.

Focus on Vocal Constructions

• Important Considerations (for 4 separate parts) (pdf)
• Vocal Constructions That Work (pdf)
• 16 Vowel Exercise (pdf)
• ‘the BUZZ’ Warm Ups (pdf)
• Singing High – Singing Over the Break – Advanced Singing Over the Break (pdf)

Focus on the Voice

• Precepts of Good, In-Tune Singing (pdf)
• The Parts (pdf)
• Considerations For All Four Parts (pdf)

Focus on Performance Levels

• Level Numbers (pdf)
• Performance Level Characteristics (pdf)
• Performance Level Guidelines (pdf)
• Making the Leap (pdf)
• Necessary Coaches (pdf)

Focus on Home Cookin’

• The Ideal Chorus Member (pdf)
• A Singer’s Pledge (pdf)

MusicFest

Music and Administration with our International President

Patty Cobb Baker

Breath and Beyond (doc)

Breath Support by McKinney (docx)

Education Planning for Your Chorus (pdf)

Energy and Energized Breath Support (docx)

Personal Vocal Improvement Plan (pdf)

Individual Vocal Instruction (IVI) Checklist (doc)

Personal Vocal Assessment (xls)

Resonance (doc)

Roadmap to Membership Success (pdf)

Training Your Trainers (pdf)

Vocal Forensics (doc)

Summer Seminar

“Camp Sea Breeze” Supporting Materials:

Dale Syverson and Peggy Gram

Singing Smart Tenor (doc)

Singing Smart Lead (doc)

Singing Smart Baritone (doc)

Singing Smart Bass (doc)

The Total Singer (docx)

Resonation (docx)

Vocal Pyramid (jpg)

Director and Music Teams Workshop

How To Listen and What to Listen For (docx) or How To Listen and What to Listen For (pdf)

PVI Comment Sheet (doc)

Tools for Self Coaching (doc)

Tags Session

Classic Tags for Women (David Wright compilation) (pdf)

Weekend Program

Camp Sea Breeze 2018 Program (pdf)

Quartet Workshop

Quartet Workshop with LoveNotes

LoveNotes: Brittany Gilmore, Mia Dessenberger, Caitlin Castelino, and Stephanie Lawson

How to Master Singing Tenor (pdf)

How to Master Singing Lead (pdf)

How to Master Singing Baritone (pdf)

How to Master Singing Bass (pdf)

“I Would Love to be the 4th Part” (pdf)

Phonetics (pdf)

MusicFest

Music and Administration with our International President

Paula Davis

Leadership at Work: Building Trust and Dealing with Change (pdf) or (docx)

Leadership at Work: Building Trust and Dealing with Change #2 (pdf) or (docx)

The Mystery of Forward Motion (pdf) or (docx)

Moving Toward Musicality (pdf) or (docx)

Creating Warm-Ups to Meet Your Challenges (pdf) or (docx)

Leadership Wisdom for the Future (pdf) or (docx)

Let Me Call You Sweetheart (pdf)

Let Me Call You Sweetheart Alternate High Tag (pdf)

Quartet Matching

Quartet Matching: 4 Locations

Bonnie McKibben, Pam Pieson, Kathleen Hansen, Jacquie Fernandez, Marsha Shaw, Paula Davis

Let Me Call You Sweetheart (pdf)

Let Me Call You Sweetheart Alternate High Tag (pdf)

Summer Seminar

“Camp Sea Breeze” Supporting Materials:

Mo Field

Contemporary Arranging (pdf)

Vocal “Tai Chi” (pdf)

A Musician’s Vision (pdf)

Performance Food (aka – Feed Your Ears/Feast Your Eyes) (pdf)

Suzy Lobaugh

More Than Spots on Lines and Spaces (pdf)

The Kiss Method (pdf)

Let’s Get Started (pdf)

How We Sang Today (pdf)

Summer Seminar

“Camp Sea Breeze” Supporting Materials:

Karen Breidert

The Personality Puzzle (pdf)

Suzy Lobaugh

More Than Spots on Lines and Spaces (pdf)

Tomi McEvoy

L.E.A.P. of Faith: Tips for Leading, Energizing, and Accelerating Performance (pdf)

Regional Song Review

Click here to download music for the regional song review (password required).

MusicFest

“EXPRESS YOURSELF” Supporting Materials:

Marcia Pinvidic

#1_GoalSetting

#2_12PointPlan

#3_VocalPercussionBasics

#4_ExpressionCategoryScoresheet

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