15 Ways to make your choirmaster to like you
1. Pay attention at rehearsals
2. Go extra miles to learn on your own
3. Always sing from your file, don’t come to rehearsal without a file
4. If he/she says you should sing ‘doh’, don’t sing ‘ray’ because you were thinking about the dress you would wear to work tomorrow.
5. When the organist is tuning a music piece, ‘shut your mouth up’
6. Listen when your choirmaster is making corrections. Yes you have realized your error but let him make the correction. Don’t act like ‘I TOO KNOW (ITK)’
7. That chewing gum in your mouth, do you know that it will gum your voice? Don’t chew gum at rehearsal unless you are sure that you want to be embarassed with a slap.
8. Dress decently. (Ladies take note)
9. Open your mouth and sing out. Why do you have a mouth when instead of singing out you are forming yanga. If you want to do yanga, go and find a better place for that. If in any case you are not singing out because you are shy, well, learn not to be shy. (You can ask me help in another post if you need me to help you do away with shyness).
10. Com’on sing your part. Tenor take note. Soprano is around so don’t sing their part for them, abi wetin una dey feel like?
11. Rehearsal is by 5 – 7pm, come by 4:45pm so that the rehearsal can finish around 6:45pm. But if you come by 6pm, please don’t expect to finish by 7pm.
12. Why is during choir practice the best time to go and ease yourself? Please hold that thing until after rehearsals.
13. Who told you that a choir master cannot also make a mistake? Instead of frustrating his effort, cooperate.
14. Tenor has made a mistake while singing in church. So what? Why must you turn back to look at them? Sopranos and Altos take note.
15. You have been in the choir for 30 years. So what? …. And you can’t even read music? yet you want a doctorate degree in choir music.
Abeg!
If you want your choirmaster to be happy with you, just do the right thing at the right time and in the right place.
Abi na lie?
Sing praises.
