Choral warmups - ear training

Here is a followup presentation with additional warmup links from 2022:    • Choral warmups - ear training ii  

This video is of a vocal (choral) exercise I came up with in 2013 to help my singers identify and more accurately perform all varieties of intervals. Here I'm teaching it to my York (Maine) High School Chamber Singers. If in fact there is no such thing as "difficult notes", but rather "challenging intervals", this is one way to go down the road of adequately training our singers to conquer those challenges by having them master the phonation of various intervals. This went well this morning... my singers clearly have work to do, especially with "4" as their reference pitch, and additionally there are other spots as well that you can hear which need attention. However, my singers were later able to articulate the benefits of the exercise while acknowledging that it made them think and concentrate on their pitch accuracy across ALL intervals. Here is a followup presentation with additional warmup links from 2022:    • Choral warmups - ear training ii