Chorus

Welcome! L-S has many clubs and extra-curricular activities, the one that I will be talking about is the chorus. If you don’t know what the chorus is I hope that you will learn more once I am finished. First I’ll talk about chorus warm ups, warming up in chorus is very important, you want to make sure that you are fully prepared and ready to start singing in chorus. There are three main components of warming up, they are, touch, breath control, Scales, and vocal exercises. First, I’ll start with breath control. Breath control is a very important part of singing. For example when you’re in chorus and having a concert you have to sing a phrase before you can take a breath again. A phrase is a line or so of a song that must get through without taking a breath and ruining it. So practicing how to breathe this way will help you a lot in chorus. Second, I will talk about scales, and vocal exercises. It is a very good idea to warm up using scales. Scales are the building blocks of anything music. So the more the chorus warms up with them the better they will become at singing different notes and pitches. Some vocal exercises that I observered the chorus doing were making different shapes with their mouths. This was important because it helped them learn to pronounciate better. They also said silly phrases such as, “peter piper picked a pack of pickled peppers”. This helps them with the pronounciation as well. “There are a lot of hard workers in chorus, and it really pays off when we sing.” Says Leah Finley, a freshman in the high school chorus this year. Mr. Welchins is the instructor of the chorus, he plays a key role in how the chorus functions. Our high school chorus is a group of talented individuals that are just waiting to show you what they’ve got! I hope you learned more about the chorus!

