Regional Measures Winter 2019 Edition REGIONAL MANAGEMENT TEAM TERRI CALVERT – TEAM LEADER LYLA LARSON – EVENTS COORDINATOR MEGAN ARGALL – DIRECTOR COORDINATOR SUSAN KRISNIK – EDUCATION COORDINATOR RUBY ERICSON – MEMBERSHIP COORDINATOR Upcoming Events JERRALYNNE TJEERDSMA – FINANCE COORDINATOR 1-Dec Christmas Concert - Lake Country LORI SCOTT – COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR Chorus Holiday Harmony - Minnesota SHANNON COOK - MARKETING COORDINATOR 1-Dec Valley Chorus votes due for Board of For contact information, see the Region 6 website 4-Dec Directors at SAI Members-only section under Community > Regional 7-Dec Sing We Noel – City of Lakes Directory 8-Dec Christmas Concert – River Rhapsody 8-Dec Christmas Concert – Lake Country Shannon Cook has been appointed to fill 21- Feb Spaghetti Dinner – Twin Cities Show Chorus the open position 13-14 of Marketing Mar Faculty Training with Joan Boutilier Coordinator for 4-Apr Spring Show – City of Lakes Region 6. 7-10 Region 6 Convention Welcome, Shannon May Rochester, MN to the Regional For more details, visit the Region 6 website or a Management specific chorus website. If you have an event to Team. Shannon is promote on the Region 6 Event Calendar, please a member and send details to Lori Scott. current president of Prairie Rose Chorus. 1 [Type here] Faculty Corner Faculty Promotions Submitted by Cheryl Helm Submitted by Bonnie Rust Faculty Coordinator TERRI CALVERT and BETTINA SCHRAMM have completed the Associate Faculty Program The faculty is off to a great start with coaching of Northern Lights Region 6 and have been choruses. If you have not scheduled your first promoted to the Region 6 Faculty. coaching session, I encourage you to do that. The faculty is ready to come and work with you TERRI CALVERT lives in Rochester MN and in whatever area you want help in. If you don’t is a member of the Twin Cities Show Chorus. know, our faculty members do receive training She has been a Sweet throughout the year. We listen to you and our Adeline since 2001 and has judges that come to our regional contest. Our held chapter and regional international judges provide us with ideas for positions. Terri has our coaching sessions based on the comments experience in small chorus written on your score sheets. All of those coaching, marketing and comments are compiled and read by the faculty. PR, script writing and They in turn use that information to create the emcee skills. classes that the administrative faculty teaches at your coaching session. Also, the music faculty BETTINA SCHRAMM lives in Plymouth MN uses that information to guide their teaching, and is a member of the City of Lakes Chorus. along with the visit they make with your director She has been a Sweet before they come. Faculty preparation is a must Adeline since 2007 and has so we can come in and use our time wisely. It is held chapter and regional a chance for you to connect with us and to get to positions. Bettina has know us better. After you receive coaching, if experience in you still have questions, don’t hesitate to get administrative leadership, back to the faculty members. Time goes fast in membership, motivation, your coaching and sometimes questions are physical warmups and thought of after we leave. basic showmanship. Each faculty member has chosen their area of expertise and try very hard to share that with the chorus they are coaching. You can go to the Looking for more Region 6 website and find the faculty directory where you can see what each has to offer. Their Education? contact information is also there. Submitted by Bettina Schramm I am happy to share we have two new faculty Handouts from the Directors and Visual Leaders members: Bettina Schramm and Terri Calvert. Seminar held this summer are posted on the SAI Welcome Aboard!! website, along with handouts from previous events. It’s a crazy amount info, providing lots of inspiration and knowledge, even without actually attending the event. It’s worth checking out. 2 [Type here] You Sweetheart, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, VOCAL WARM-UPS FOR etc.) QUARTET/CHORUS -Alternate phrases: take a song and alternate phrases between humming and words. Make Unity sure when you switch to words that the sound is Submitted by Heather Johnston consistent with the sound you had humming. Region 6 Faculty Proceed to two part exercises. A great example Vocal skills are an integral part of all aspects of of this is utilizing a simple round. Split the the barbershop style, and all four judging chorus in half and sing it in a round. Then split categories are affected by the degree of the chorus into thirds or quarters. Challenge proficiency in this area. your singers, take a round they are familiar with An effective warm-up routine will help singers and start the second and subsequent groups at a focus their mind and ear to the task of singing different time than they are used to. acappella music. It will awaken the body to the Interval Training: physical aspects of singing. Throughout exercises be sure to reinforce proper use of the -1-3-5-8-5-3-1, 1-4-6-8-6-4-1, 2-4-5-7-5-4-2, 1- voice to avoid vocal problems (i.e. open space, 3-5-8-5-3-1, then repeat it from the top down: air flow/movement, etc.). 8-5-3-1-3-5-8, 8-6-4-8-6-4-1, etc. Then split the chorus in half with one group starting on 1 A thorough warm-up session begins with and the other on 8. instruction, exercises or reminders about posture/body alignment and breathing. Then -1-2-3-4-5, 5-4-3-2-1, 1-5-4-5-3-5-2-5-1-5-4-5- move on to phonation (the process by which the 3-2-1, repeat and end with 6-7-8. Add clapping. vocal folds produce certain sounds through Everyone claps on 1; everyone claps on 5; half quasi-periodic vibration), resonation clap on 1 while half clap on 5; then split the (amplification of sound by the sympathetic chorus into 4 and the director or vocal exercise vibration of air in certain cavities and bony leader claps on 1 while each group is assigned 2- structures) and articulation (look this one up on 3-4 and 5. There are LOTS of ways to mix this Dictionary.com….lol!). one up. After a few breathing exercises I move to A fabulous resource for new vocal exercises is a humming and bubbling. group on Facebook called Vocal Warm-Ups. Scroll through the posts and find exercises for Humming: all different types of things. You can even post -Dance Around Do (1-2-1-7-1) asking for suggestions! I would also encourage you to check out the Sweet Adeline Website. -Russian Humming Round (search for it on You Login as a member and you can access hand- Tube) outs from many of the educational seminars that have been held over the years. There are also Bubbling: links to articles and videos. -1-2-3-4-5-4-3-2-1 Wrap things up with a good ol’ Barbershop -1-2-3-4-5-4-3-2-1-5-1 Tag! Sing it as a full chorus and then encourage -Utilize any song (Happy quartets to come down and sing it on their own! Birthday, Let Me Call What a fun way to wrap-up vocal warm-ups! 3 [Type here] Library Chapter Visit Program Submitted by Bonnie Rust Submitted by JoAnn Flanagan Chapter Visit Coordinator Every member, quartet and chorus wants to improve their ability to sing. It doesn’t just A HUGE thank you to the chapter leaders who happen, so spend some time to warm-up before scheduled and requested a chapter visit for their you sing. Singers who warm up their voices: chorus already this year! The regional faculty has been very busy visiting choruses near and 1. Sing with more freedom and far. Twelve visits have been completed and two consistency. are scheduled for January. The goal is that every 2. Have fewer voice problems overall. 3. Have a wider vocal range. chorus receives a visit this year and that most 4. Have more options for being expressive. take advantage of a second visit before April. 5. Communicate their songs better overall. We can do it! The Region 6 Library has a ton of warm-up resources available to you. Take the necessary time to warm-up your voice consistently and you’ll improve your ability to sing. Arranger Certification Program Submitted by Linda Wetterlin Have you heard the news? Sweet Adelines International now offers an Arranger Certification Program! The program provides education not only to arrangers, current and aspiring, but to general members who want to learn more about the barbershop style. You could be our next Master Music Arranger! See the link above to apply. I will coordinate this program at the Regional level along with the We have an amazing faculty of talented, Director Certification Program. Contact me if dedicated women who love the opportunity to you need assistance regarding either program: work with the choruses in our region. Perhaps [email protected] or 651-216-7670 you have a long-standing relationship with a (talk/text). faculty member and look forward to having her back to continue the work you’ve begun together on your musical journey. Or maybe this is the year to bring in a new face to the chorus for a new perspective and the opportunity to make a new chorus friend.