From the Risers
With a career in training and as a father of three children, I love this definition of learning: "Learning has occurred when behavior changes." Our chorus picked up a new song this week (learn the basics at home, come prepared to start rehearsing): Seventy Six Trombones from The Music Man. The first half of the arrangement has the melody in the bass voices, and I was curious to see how it would sound at the first rehearsal. As a bass section, we've heard a lot of instruction about how to sing the melody when we have it: Sing like a Lead, just in a lower range. Keep the placement forward and the quality light, especially in your upper range (sometimes I think the phrase "Just 'cause you can, don't mean you should." was written for barbershop basses).