A Cappella Meets Dalcroze

Hi everyone, thanks for coming to my class. In the last year, I was in a position, so learning and also start to arrange a little bit so that's where this session came from and it's gotten experience for me. The idea is that every group who does this arrangement is specific to that group and there's no final score but with like one acapella group you could do this. I'm going to go to the piano and I'm going to play a pattern heavy and light and as a group will you show me what the pattern is? So you can be in a circle now. So what can we do? Show us again. The full body. You get stuck, okay, and then when music goes, you can go a little higher. Like this? You can keep it safe and always sing the same thing, or you can try experimenting. Blue chords, because I'm going to introduce a note, okay, that the music is going to get stuck on. So when you hear a new chord, find a friend, and that's it for now, okay? The phrase, you're by yourself singing, okay? There's some other way to sing chords? Yes, there is. What else is making it? Yes, we have a lot of, especially the soprano, is exactly the same in both. Yes! Cadence, maybe? What did you say? Yes, one of them is a minor chord, but there's so many other things. I mean, it's floaty, both are floaty, so it distinguishes the one floaty one. Yes. Should we try it one more time with those tips in mind? See how we're going? Okay, great. Something, or there's a neighbor. Maybe I'm just thinking. The stopping, where the stop's in the middle of the chord, I think that it's got a lot more on the low notes in them, because it feels like there's a pull when you're going to the next note, a pull down. In the chord? That's right, you're right, exactly. The two. And then the a chord, from the two to the one. I love it. So there's two ways you could do this game. We're going to do it one more time. You could sing on the two chord, and then go down, because two steps down to one. Or you could be more creative and go, the safer option is just going to be to set it down. So let's hear it in the two chord, ready? Oooooh. Eyyyy. Shuddering. Eyyyy. To demonstrate, we're all on the same page. So it's a lot of times where we start on the downbeat of our hands. So these are conducting gestures. Like so? Okay, so let's try it again. Eyyyy. That's the future, shuddering. And it's a nine. So what is. A. A, so then the other, we're gonna have B, C, D, E. And then the next part is A, one, and I don't know if this is playing in the other area. I don't know. Shit. So you can see that there are, we'll have A, oops, yeah, we'll have C, D, E, B, do I need to practice with you? Okay, you got it? This is the, for the back of the vocal. Can I request you just wait a little? The last part of each part? All righty, basically. ♪ Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. ♪