----- Original Message -----From: Susan TalbotSent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 10:14 AMSubject: [primusic] Re: Louder than lovelyWhat you are experiencing is normal for young children. Good singing for young children with small larynx, small lungs, small bone structure and still developing muscle control will be quiet compared to older chldren and adults. When working with children value a sweet, natural child sound.
Ways to get there:
Do movement songs. Moving while singing helps to activate the muscles neccessary for singing in a natural way. So warm up with "Do as I'm Doing" and do come whole body things like "jump as I'm jumping" etc.
Sing without piano so they can hear your voice. It's very hard for young children to distinguish between the voice sound and the piano sound. They need to hear your voice so they can match it.
Have children sing duets or solos once in awhile. They learn from hearing each others voices.
Never say "Sing louder." Instead walk around the room and say "I can hear you" to individual children.
Be proud of your Primary choir which sings softly with a beautiful childlike sound.
Susan
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> Can someone please help me brainstorm a better way to teach this concept.
> I have a couple of kiddo's in my jr. primary that cannot grasp the concept of singing vs. screaming. I've demonstrated more times than I can explain, and talked, talked, talked, talked, talked. I've talked about singingt not being shouting, if you can feel your veins popping from your neck that's screaming! :-) I've stopped the song and made us start over. Unfortunately they are my best jr. primary singers and everyone follows their lead. They will quiet down, but then it's too quiet, and if I tell them I need more volume we are back up to screaming. There is no middle sound. I have two weeks left (and they are the program practice sunday's) to try and teach this. Any ideas? I'm in a quandry at trying to teach getting sound to the back of the cultural hall, but doing it in a 'lovely' way. I've always used some type of picture to let them know I need more volume or cupped my ears, or had someone sitting in the back, etc...but I'm not sure what to do about my screamers?
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> Angela
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