If you’ve never gotten around to learning how to read music as well as you’d like, join us as we learn the basic building blocks of music: note names, scales, notation, key signatures, time signatures, and more. Recognize melodic movement, intervals, rhythms, and scales to help you ‘hear’ the music before you sing it. By applying a practical application of music reading you can enhance your singing experience and musicianship. Offered in sessions 1 and 3. FACULTY: Lisa Schwarzkopf TARGET AUDIENCE: Everyone
Feel the groove! This class will help you expand your rhythmic vocabulary - including note values, rests, and different meters - and introduce practical tips for reading and ‘hearing’ rhythms before you sing them. We will discuss tempo driven songs– fast and slow - and identify ways to sing them without speeding up or slowing down. Come ready to clap, tap and stomp your way through quarter notes, eighth notes, and triplets… and learn the importance of subdivisions and feeling the pulse. Basic music reading skill will enhance your experience in this class. Offered in sessions 2 and 6. FACULTY: Lisa Schwarzkopf TARGET AUDIENCE: Everyone
If you’ve never gotten around to learning how to read music as well as you’d like, join us as we learn the basic building blocks of music: note names, scales, notation, key signatures, time signatures, and more. Recognize melodic movement, intervals, rhythms, and scales to help you ‘hear’ the music before you sing it. By applying a practical application of music reading you can enhance your singing experience and musicianship. Offered in sessions 1 and 3. FACULTY: Lisa Schwarzkopf TARGET AUDIENCE: Everyone
There are a thousand things you can do with a song; come learn the critical things you have to do in order for the song to be barbershop. If you don’t use these five, you cannot succeed in singing barbershop. We will also explore a second Ah Hah and trap -- just because a chart is written in the barbershop style, it doesn’t mean that you are singing it in the barbershop style. This class will help you understand what barbershop is, and how to use your new understanding of the barbershop style to move from being a "notes and words" singer to a singer who gives the barbershop song its due. This class is for everyone from novices to experts. FACULTY: Raymond Schwarzkopf TARGET AUDIENCE: Everyone
This class is focused on the singer who has a feel for the music but might not read music very well or understand the structure of the chords. We will explore the basics of how barbershop music works and demystify the circle of fifths, tri-tone movement, and other terms that make your eyes glaze over! Come feel the fun of barbershop chords and melody lines while seeing and hearing how these barbershop basics work. FACULTY: Lisa and Raymond Schwarzkopf TARGET AUDIENCE: Everyone
This class is focused on the singer who has a feel for the music but might not read music very well or understand the structure of the chords. We will explore the basics of how barbershop music works and demystify the circle of fifths, tri-tone movement, and other terms that make your eyes glaze over! Come feel the fun of barbershop chords and melody lines while seeing and hearing how these barbershop basics work. FACULTY: Lisa and Raymond Schwarzkopf TARGET AUDIENCE: Everyone
Feel the groove! This class will help you expand your rhythmic vocabulary - including note values, rests, and different meters - and introduce practical tips for reading and ‘hearing’ rhythms before you sing them. We will discuss tempo driven songs– fast and slow - and identify ways to sing them without speeding up or slowing down. Come ready to clap, tap and stomp your way through quarter notes, eighth notes, and triplets… and learn the importance of subdivisions and feeling the pulse. Basic music reading skill will enhance your experience in this class. Offered in sessions 2 and 6. FACULTY: Lisa Schwarzkopf TARGET AUDIENCE: Everyone
