Choir nerds!

There are threads for the band geeks and the orch dorks. So I guess we're the choir nerds?

I'm in my school choir as well as the "teen" division of a children's choir. I sing alto at school and everything (not at the same time, though!) in my other choir. We're doing some pretty fun pieces at school this year and I'm looking forward to going on our trip next May (it's a local trip this year, to a music festival. We're apparently going to Disneyland next year, though). In my other choir, we have some challenging stuff that is honestly a bit scary. We're singing an SSAA arrangement of Bach's Orchestral Suite No.3 in D Major a cappella.

Feel free to share anything :) What part you sing, what songs you're singing, balancing choir with school and NaNo, SIGHT-SINGING TIPS (*hint* I want some!), etc.

Choir people unite!

Hiya! I'm Sunset! I'm a soprano 2, section leader of my school choir, and a senior member of my church youth choir. We're a freshman choir, so our music isn't too challenging. We just have a lot. Six songs for one concert... We don't travel or compete... Sadly. However, we do sight sing a lot, and I would love to offer some help! Just field me some specific questions.

I'm one of those people who push myself very hard. I sing and practice harmonizing CONSTANTLY. I am determined to get a part in my school musical, as well as make it into chamber choir next year. I get called an overachiever a lot.

Other things about me... I play piano and write music... That's something I guess. And my Nano novel this year is VERY music-centric.

Welp, that's me in a nutshell!

I have been in choir since... Third grade, officially. But as I am in college, I had to pick between Wind Ensemble and my bass clarinet, and choir. I picked WE. :/ I love it, but I horribly miss singing. There's always church, I suppose. And any other random time I choose to sing, which happens a lot to be honest. I sang Alto 2 all the way through high school, and alto in my junior preofessional choir 7-8th grade, and alto in elementary school.

I've sang anything from traditional hymns, to pieces in Latin, Spanish, Russian, French, Italian, German, and a few other languages. My high school was very heavy on the music dept, but our athletics were bad. I was a music person. ^__^

I play clarinet, bass clarinet, piano, handbells, chimes, and kazoo. Because I know people who can't play kazoo. *headdesk* I write music, and I love writing descants to songs, especially hymns.

Well, I gotta go to class. Byess.

Choir nerds unite! :D

I sing Soprano I, but I'm not one of those terribly shrieky sopranos, considering I really can't hit anything above a high C... working on that though...

But anyways, I'm in my school's Chamber group, our show choir, and I made Honors last year, but not this year. I went from being 9 out of 81 to being 34 out of 62, God only knows what I did in there to make that kind of a drop. xD But I'm hoping to get randomly selected for districts like I did last year--seriously one of the best experiences of my life!

Yayyyyyy choir!

Oh yeah, and I played Rapunzel in our school's production of Into the Woods last year. This year it's Seussical, and I'm quietly hoping for Gertrude McFuzz, but we'll see how that goes. :/

I'm an alto but I'm supposed to be a soprano II... :L
There really isn't much balancing of choir and writing to be had down my end, though. We did Regionals in June and Nationals (I'm in two of the top eighteen secondary school choirs in New Zealand! Yay! :D) in August and we only have like three more performances left..
Before August we were practicing eight times a week (seven during school time and once in the weekends) but now it's a miserable two (one for each choir) and I miss it.. D:

...nearly all of my friends are in choir. I have never had room in my school schedule for it but next year I finally will! (Even though my middle school's choir director lovingly referred to me as "our liaison to the outside world," and my high school's director seems to think I'm in her ensemble regardless. I spend more time in the choir room than in regular classes.)

I sing tenor (on most days...sometimes I can slip down into a baritone but it's terribly hard) and have an annoyingly short head voice that my falsetto compensates for...except my falsetto is the most annoying sound in existence. At least to me.

Le sigh.

I'm a base. Most of the time I can also do baritone, and any tenor parts that don't go over the top of the staff. I can't do falsetto, but one time I was able to squeal the soprano solo from Tuba Mirum.

I'm not sure if I'm really a choir nerd, though, since I can only barely read music. On the other hand, I do sing Madrigals. Mostly I learn by ear.

Tenor over here! Trying to extend my range. Right now I'm really pushing for an A above Middle C (I never learned the numbers) I can hit higher on rare occasions.

I guess the strangest thing I'm doing with my voice is trying to develop both a belt tenor and a dramatic/lyrical operatic tenor. Not sure how it will turn out, but I really want to succeed in both.

I did district choir last year, waiting on results for this year. Hopefully I will succeed in a Musical Theatre career. My problem is I don't have dance experience so I am limited to non dancing shows (which all my favorites are generally minimal dancing) My dream role is Phantom.

Anyway enough rambling. I don't think singing and writing should conflict to much. I might have to lock up my keyboard and all my music books to suppress any unwanted urges.

I'm a choir nerd! I am a soprano in a German choir in Oregon, which I have been a member of for nearly two years. (Long story involving my sister's mother-in-law, the military and a European adventure when I was 13.) I don't speak German and I am the only teenager there, so it is certainly a different sort of experience. (Especially when we go sing and party out of state and I am the only one not drinking.) I don't know why, but I love singing in foreign languages. I took some singing lessons once and my instructor was shocked when I learned an Italian aria after two lessons. Most of her students wanted to learn Disney movie tunes or contemporary American songs.

In choir we sing all kind of songs, old folk songs, Schubert and Beethoven, love songs, opera, and, of course, drinking songs. My dad almost burst into laughter when we sang "Au du Lieber Augustin" in a concert at a church. We are all quite crazy. :)

I can sing really high, but I am not so good in switching registers or singing anything very low. Also, though I can sight-read, I can only sing a song after hearing it. I have been driving my family nuts for years by singing along with Charlotte Church and other high-pitched artists. I think they are very happy that recently my tastes have become a little more diverse.

I've been in choir for... seven years now! I'm an Alto I this year (Soprano I last year and also in the musical now, but Alto by choice) though I switch pretty regularly over parts. I love singing in other languages, too, because I think it's easier to learn how to pronounce things when you don't already have ideas of how in your head. We're singing a Japanese song this year, and it's fairly simple pitch-wise, but murder with the rhythm. I love it, though.

I really like singing the lower and higher ends. I'm bad at Soprano II, just because I tend to latch onto the lowest or highest note, especially in sight-reading. We're doing a musical this year (Sweet Charity!) and I'm in the chorus, and there's one girl who does a part higher than everyone else, and I stand next to her. Of course.

But enough complaining. I love Choir, I never want to give it up. :)

Hey peoples!

I'm the lead first soprano for my Home-school choir. We're celebrating our 10th year this year so we're redoing songs we've done in the past decade. Coolest thing, I've been in the choir since it's inception 10 years ago! :)

I'm an Alto (2!) :). I sing the lowest parts for everything, but my voice isn't that low (I'm actually a mezzo). Chorus and singing are my favorite things to do ever :). I've only been in school choruses, unfortunately (we have an awesome chorus teacher and audition choruses though ^_^), but I'm trying out for Districts this year and want to do choruses outside of school. I just started voice lessons, which makes me really happy :). I'm also in an a cappella group (the kind where you sing backgound for pop songs with solos!) and it's the most awesome experience in the world. Everyone should try out for a cappella (assuming you can sing :P).

Yaayyy I love Choir Nerds! hahahah. (:
Anyways, I'd like to think I'm a Mezzo-Soprano, but I'm usually stuck singing Soprano 1 unfortunately. I'm in two choirs, a jazz choir, and a broadway show choir, and I'm Soprano 1 in both. I love them a lot though! For the next concert we're singing "Baby it's Cold Outside" in show choir, and i'm super pumped. (; And then Santa Baby in my Jazz Choir. Then a bunch of classical pieces who I doubt any of you really know. But anyways, I would love to be in an a cappella group more than anything! I just think they sound sooooo amazing.
-Allie. (:

I'm in a fairly basic high school choir. We have soppies, basses, baritones, tenor 1s, tenor 2s, and altos. I'm a soppie, currently in only normal choir, although I hope to be in the woman's group. I would've auditioned for vocal jazz, but I have plenty of time, seeing as I'm also a freshman.

Someone remind me why I didn't audition for the a cappella group.

I mean, everyone in it is totally expletive-worthy but it looks so fun.

Oh, the tragedy.

Hi kids! :D

I am a loud-and-proud Alto 2 who is regularly switched by the director to Alto 1 and once to Soprano 2. My voice is still recovering from that. It's great. -_- I'm in the mixed chorale at my school, so I can say with utmost accuracy that I /can/ sing tenor when I want to. I have tenor friends to back me up on this.

I've been in school choirs since fifth grade, so... four years now. It's a bit weird, thinking back to a time when I wasn't in choir. I've made the middle school/junior high Region choirs twice, and this year I made one of the high school Region choirs as well. Never have made a jazz/show ensemble though, so working on that.

Hopefully I'll be performing a duet with one of my bass friends soon. It'll be great as long as it doesn't interfere with NaNo. And then it would suck.

Pleasure to meet y'all.

I'm Sissy, a choir nerd through-and-through. I sing mainly jazz, classical, and gospel. I'm a soprano 1 in my school choir and my church choir (where I'm proudly the only member under the age of 40). I've been my Regional choir for the past couple years and this year I'm going for All-State.
I've attempted alto at many points during my career, all have ended in embarrassing failure.

I made my main character a jazz singer. Because I just had to.
Because it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing...

I also couldn't resist naming my username after an opera (it's usually Ariodante, another opera, but I decided to switch things up)

I did choir in 4th and 5th grade, and now I'm a HS Freshman taking Vocals I. : ) We have our first concert on Tuesday, I'm one of 7 altos in my class but there's more since there are 2 more classes she teaches. ^^ I'm also doing a Veteran's Day concert in November, but it's early in the morning and it won't be too long. Just two songs. We're a group of 6...out of the 20 that signed up.

I love the songs we're doing for Tuesday's concert. All of the classes are doing a 12-part canon, a Phantom of the Opera Medley, and Bohemian Rhapsody. My class is also doing a Lion King medley, Barbara Allen, and an Alleluia canon on our own and our girls are doing A Whole New World. The guys (along with her other 2 classes because we have 4 guys in my class) are doing Stand by Me. It's pretty great :3

I got dragged into Choir this year at my school, but I'm really enjoying it...if only people would stop talking and sing more. No one takes it seriously, sadly.
I'm singing alto, though I wish I was singing soprano. Soprano section is on the large side, so I couldn't switch over. Not only do I like the sound of soprano, I can't hit some of the alto notes. I really can't go anywhere near low. I can get Middle C, though it hurts a little, but anything below it I can't get / hurts too much I just don't sing it.

Second sopranos represent! How many people are in show choir here? We just had our first show choir performance of the year today, and I had lots of fun making some interesting facials. :)