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How NOT to recruit new members – just yet
Posted by editor on Oct 27 2006 | Category: Fellowship, Performance
Do you have dropped members? Are there inactive barbershoppers in your area no longer affiliated with any chapter? Wouldn’t you love to help rekindle their love of barbershop, and at the same time enjoy the thrill of singing with them again? The chapter with which I am affiliated, the Denver MountainAires, recently devised a non-recruitment event for the holidays that, hopefully, will pay great dividends. Yes, I said a “non” recruitment event. You can try this in your chapter. Here is how it is scheduled to work.
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The power of one
Posted by editor on Sep 19 2006 | Category: Motivation, Performance, Technique
You have heard the old adage: You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. A variation on that theme goes like this: You can lead a person to knowledge, but you can’t make him (or her) think. That is an important realization as far as barbershop music, or anything else for that matter, is concerned.
ACE IT – part five
Posted by editor on Jul 23 2006 | Category: Music, Performance
In this final discussion about ACE IT, I conclude my observations on how to make every song come alive for you, the singer, as well as for your audience. After all, isn’t that one of the many joys of singing barbershop?
ACE IT – part four
Posted by editor on Jul 06 2006 | Category: Music, Performance
We’re almost there! You have the Accuracy down. You are Confident in the song. You are now singing with Energy and Enthusiasm. Terrific! So now you can move to the next level of the song, the I portion of ACE IT.
ACE IT – part three
Posted by editor on Jun 28 2006 | Category: Music, Performance
OK, now you have the notes and words down cold (the A part that stands for accuracy) and you are sure that you can sing the song correctly (the C part that stands for confidence). [If you don't, go back to the first two posts in this series.]
