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 Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 6:30 pm
Okay, before people go on a tirade, we are not choir (yes I participate in choir, acapella groups, but not the point). This is what I mean: In my university (I attend The Ohio State University), all of our band directors (which totals four) for the marching and athletic bands make us play the note and then sing it. Or, simply stop playing and sing your parts. In fact, if we are at an athletic event and we have to stop playing due to the event, we end by singing our parts. During other songs there are parts where the whole band stops playing and sings the lyrics to the song in four part harmony (SATB, when we can manage). Our marching band actually sings a verse of their warm up, during skull sessions ( ---->Click Me <----). My question is this: do your bands, orchestras, or other instrumental groups sing for any reason? If so, what? I have not seen this in any other band, and would like to know.
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Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 6:44 pm
Yeah my high school does it during marching band practice.
We do it so we can learn our parts without using our instruments. At least I think...
Sometimes I think its just because the band director gets tired of hearing all the flutes play....
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Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 9:23 pm
It's pretty common to sing parts, actually.
We did it in high school. It's good for aural skills and figuring out the rhythms.
Also, in sightreading in competitions, all you can do in the 5 minutes allotted is sing.
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Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 9:54 pm
my band does that. they sing the march sometimes. also sometimes at football games the refs tell them they can't play during the kickoff, but they always play "bald mountain" (i think from fantasia) during the kickoff, so they sing it smile it really funny to listen to, since normally you hear one part because its a certain instrument, but when all the instruments are voices...well...it gets pretty interesting...
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Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 11:51 pm
omg you're in TBDBITL? /fangirls
Uh, well, at our band rehearsals we aren't allowed to play for the first half hour due to sound ordinances. So we always sing our parts while marching through the show.
There are quite a few school songs we'll do something like play the intro, sing the verse, and then play the verse. We also learn some four-part harmony for a couple of the school songs, which are sung on more formal occasions.
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Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 6:04 pm
It also helps with matching pitches, being sure you arent off the pitch, or so i have been told and my band director wants to bring it into warmups next year
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 1:26 pm
You Know the Poor Son of a Humble Chimney Sweep Fell To a Cheap Crowd We sing strictly to save our lips, and that's only while learning the show.
Our director used to be an elementary school music teacher and cannot stand hearing our off-key singing. Can't say I blame her.
I always wished we would work on that though. It would fantastic to have singing sessions with the band. It'd also be a lot easier to learn music. So Stay Asleep and Put On that Cursive Type, You Know We Live in a Toy
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 1:32 pm
Yep, we sing but only during warm-ups and only up and down the scales, it's never a song or anything. It's to help with matching pitches and learning how to center our notes and play in tune from the very start. By singing the notes, we actually start thinking about how they sound like instead of just pressing certain buttons and blowing air into our horns.
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 3:13 pm
Sing? Yes. We sang our entire show last year right before we went on to perform so we actually had to think about the notes and pitches and everything else rather than go through the muscle memory of the fingerings.
We also sing pitches in class so the director can make a point about tuning.
In our marching show this year, we sang at the beginning.
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 4:34 pm
Yes =] our entire band can sing relatively well -- and many of us have been able to get into the top choir because of it.
(we can sight read choir music on spot)
In general, most choir kids have to take two years of concert choir to get into Rebelation (the top choir) but band kids actually know how to read music better, so that helps.
Oh and: your voice is the only instrument that can ever be perfectly in tune.
Even a piano is almost always out of tune, if just be a few decimals.
I'm in choir, too. =)
(woman's, because the top choir never fits into my AP schedule ;; )
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Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 6:31 pm
flauterfli Yes =] our entire band can sing relatively well -- and many of us have been able to get into the top choir because of it.
(we can sight read choir music on spot)
In general, most choir kids have to take two years of concert choir to get into Rebelation (the top choir) but band kids actually know how to read music better, so that helps. Oh yeah, it was like that at my school too. Despite missing half the rehearsals (due to being the same period as marching band), us band kids were the best in the top choir. I myself auditioned with no prior experience and nailed the sight-singing. Woooo band! Knowing how to play an instrument really helps a lot with singing, and vice versa of course smile
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Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 1:02 pm
OMG! eek I go to firestone high school in Ohio. Yes do have to sing our parts. To me it helps in the long run anyway. I am also in choir too. my fellow band mates could use some work on singing but when we play we sound a lot different than what we did before we sung our parts.
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Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 4:24 pm
Singing is band is very popular!
Anyone in a competing band knows that you can't make any sounds on your instrument until you're in the warm up area.
To get some extra practice before we compete, we always sing our parts. c:
Also, I have played and know of multiple pieces that involve singing and using your voice as an instrument.
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 9:55 am
We sing during practice to help us hear the note before playing it.
It helps with pitches.
If you can't sing it, you can't play it.
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 1:27 pm
Oh yes. Actually, it's how I tune my instrument.
But anyway, whenever we're learning drill, we usually don't learn it with our instruments, and so they ask us to sing our parts. And during sectionals, our brass instructor makes us sing our warm-ups usually before we play them, as well as our parts. It helps us learn the pitches. Whenever someone says that we didn't sign up for choir, he'll reply "quit your bitchin'! If you' didn't sign up for choir, stop acting like a choir kid!" (the choir kids at our school complain a lot, and he knows it)
And, being the band geeks that we are, we'll sometimes sing the show...or last year's show, in our classes.
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