TOTAL CHOIR RESOURCES SUPPORT FORUM
Use this forum to get in touch with us, ask questions and give us feedback and suggestions. Want to chat with fellow members? Posting in the TCR Member Hub on Facebook tends to get more attention and interaction.
Kathy Snow
I seem to have the same access problem. Locked key symbols. Help please! Kathy
Locked sign
Hello, I don't seem to be able to access any of the warm-ups, rounds etc. There is a locked sign next to each of them. I am a member but am I missing something?
Susie x
Stella Moore
any suggestions for improving tuning (a cappella) when changing key to a semitone higher during a song? There is a link bar and individually each part can do the transition, but when layering up it still seems to drift sometimes.
Saturday emails
Hello Christine and Victoria - I just wanted to say how much I appreciate your Saturday emails, always relevant, helpful and encouraging. Thank you.
Morag
Sharing Resources and Repertoire Ideas
Today is the first day I've had the time to explore the new site and I've found it very slick.
I'd welcome an area where members could share their recommendations for songs which have worked particularly well (organised by parts eg SSA) or even a place where members could upload their own arrangements of songs which are out of copyright for other members to use.
Please give this some consideration. Many thanks.
Licencing minefield
Hello.
I really want to do things right and am struggling to get my head around all the licencing requirements for singing in different venues in the UK. Perhaps if I list what I know, someone may be able to confirm that it is correct?
If we sing in a church and the church has a CCLI Licence, we are covered regardless of what we sing?
If we sing in a shopping centre, it is the responsibility of the shopping centre to contact PPL / PRS to inform them of the event?
If we sing outside, at an unti…
Hello.
I really want to do things right and am struggling to get my head around all the licencing requirements for singing in different venues in the UK. Perhaps if I list what I know, someone may be able to confirm that it is correct?
If we sing in a church and the church has a CCLI Licence, we are covered regardless of what we sing?
If we sing in a shopping centre, it is the responsibility of the shopping centre to contact PPL / PRS to inform them of the event?
If we sing outside, at an unticketed event, we would need to obtain a licence ourselves from PPL / PRS?
It all seems quite complicated.
I'm also wondering what sort of licence we would need to be able to record and distribute rehearsal tracks legally? or record the concerts?
I'd be very grateful for any advice, clarification or information you may have. I'm feeling a bit bogged down.
Thank you
Jill
Did I do it?
Did I successfully transfer over to the new platform? It looks like it.
Announcing! I've arrived at the new platform!
Heads-up - we're raising our prices, but NOT for you!
We just want to give you a heads-up that the price for new Total Choir Resources members will be going up on 1st July 2022.
Please know that as an existing member the price of your current subscription will NOT be changed. This price increase only applies to new members joining after 1st July.
So you’ll still get all of the benefits of being a member of Total Choir Resources for the price you locked in when you joined us. We want to reassure you about that so that if you see talk of a price inc…
We just want to give you a heads-up that the price for new Total Choir Resources members will be going up on 1st July 2022.
Please know that as an existing member the price of your current subscription will NOT be changed. This price increase only applies to new members joining after 1st July.
So you’ll still get all of the benefits of being a member of Total Choir Resources for the price you locked in when you joined us. We want to reassure you about that so that if you see talk of a price increase, you know it doesn’t apply to you.
We hope that’s all clear but if you have any questions just let us know by hopping onto the site and opening a support ticket.
Just to reiterate, for as long as you remain a member you will always keep your current price.
New Simplero app .question
Hi Victoria and Christine
I’ve downloaded the app onto my ipad but I’m not seeing the full TCR offerings as I do on the website for eg i can’t see the dashboard or the forum button on the app
Am I doing something wrong here cos the app would be my go too mostly
Thanks joy
Starting a new pop-rock-soul-gospel-folky workplace choir as a brand new choir leader...Top tips, please!!
Hi leaders!
To give you the context: I'm starting a new choir for staff and students in the aeronautical institute where I've started working, here in Toulouse (student body 1900, probably 80% male; staff including part-time, 1800, poss 60% male - no idea how this will translate into percentages in the choir itself, or indeed how many I'll have.)
The songs will be in English; I want to teach from ear (lyric sheets but not scores)... It'll be an (almost) hour-long session at lunchtime, pretty ca…
Hi leaders!
To give you the context: I'm starting a new choir for staff and students in the aeronautical institute where I've started working, here in Toulouse (student body 1900, probably 80% male; staff including part-time, 1800, poss 60% male - no idea how this will translate into percentages in the choir itself, or indeed how many I'll have.)
The songs will be in English; I want to teach from ear (lyric sheets but not scores)... It'll be an (almost) hour-long session at lunchtime, pretty casual (who knows, a separate, more serious group that would practise after school might emerge from it, eventually...)
I'll be using backing tracks and, to start with at least, pre-made learning tracks, I think. We'll have an accompanist for performers and I can read music and I'll have a keyboard in the rehearsal room, but I won't be accompanying during rehearsal, unless sporadically.
The institute is willing to buy the material (tracks, etc.) , but as I have to buy from suppliers and others have to set up accounts with these different suppliers, I have to be astute and tactical in who I use (ie. use as few as possible, otherwise they'll get fed up - it's French and bureaucratic and is already proving surprisingly complicated). (I should add that I'm principally an English teacher, so this isn't my main job!)
I'm looking at Choir Community (lots of great a cappella, but I think this might be risky to start with?) and also I had a couple of great tips (pink zebra music, choir player, karaoke version) from the Mastermind yesterday, so I'm about to look into those too. I guess I need learning tracks + backing tracks + lyric sheets (if arranged with the oohs and ahhs in place? Who would you recommend as a one-stop-shop? I reckon I can manage 2 stop shops, but that might be it.)
Some other questions I have:
What great starter tracks would you recommend? Especially for a choir whose makeup you don't know (I don't think I'll have a sense of the regular makeup (SAT/ SATB / TTBB?) until the novelty has worn off and it has settled down!) Probably no harm starting with Lean on Me or Stand By Me or Caravan of Love or Down by the River to Pray / Go to Sleep You Little Baby... ?
Should I start out with two-part harmony or am I safe enough to go for three?
Planning: Am I right in thinking that I'm only likely to get through a warmup, maybe a round and then half a song in a lunchtime, adding on a couple of previously learned songs at the end, once we get a few under our belts?
Any and all advice/ideas very welcome.
Thanks so much in advance :)
Fiona