How to lead
A Children S Choir
How to start a Kids Choir
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hi in this set of videos we will be
looking at choral music ministry
specifically as it relates to children
and youth so there's always a need to
minister to our children to bring them
into the church into to share with them
about Christ and one of the most
effective ways we can do this is through
a children's choir and so maybe you've
thought before yeah I'd like to start a
children's choir but where do I even
begin
if you look around your core you may
already see young people that would love
to start singing together speak to your
core officer and your core leaders and
they can perhaps share with you other
core families that maybe haven't been at
your core in a little while and those
are families that you can reach out to
and invite them back into the core and
invite their children to come join your
choir the local school is a great way to
get information out about your choir
simply send the details to the school
administration and ask for their support
in promoting in promoting your new group
if your core has a website or Facebook
page this use of social media is an
awesome way to get information out and
to invite families along and invite
families to bring their children along
to your youth choir as with most things
word-of-mouth is one of the easiest yet
most effective way to get information
out there and out into the community I
would encourage you as your choir starts
to take shape to find opportunities to
sing outside of your core as well this
could be a community Christmas event or
you could sing at a local hospital and
oftentimes when people hear musicians
they are interested in learning more
about your group and they may want to
bring their children along to your group
so any idea that gets your information
gets your your your discussion about
your group out in the community those
are all good ideas to try
the next question usually is well what
about an accompanist and sadly this is
something that prevents a lot of people
from starting a children's choir if they
don't have that that traditional piano
accompanist and while there is a benefit
to that there are lots of other options
to provide accompaniment for you
most of the children's choral books and
choral music that is published now
include a listening track as well as an
accompaniment track that your children
can sing along with and with today's
technology most of those tracks are
readily available online when you make
your purchase
so they're great to use there are lots
of options for other instruments to
accompany you if you have a guitar
player in your core that can be a
beautiful accompaniment to acquire if
you have a worship team or a brass band
in your core these are also musicians
that can help you out with some
accompaniment you always have to be
careful with young singers and larger
numbers of people accompanying you just
because of the musical balance but if
you wanted to sing jesus loves me out of
the songbook the brass band
accompaniment is there ready to go grab
four or five of your players and ask
them to to help you out with that
a lot of choirs sing acapella without
any music at all so even though this may
be a little bit of a scary idea there is
so much good music that can be made from
an a cappella choir so don't be afraid
to give that a try
if you have a young person in your core
who's studying music say the piano but
they aren't necessarily comfortable yet
to play these full accompaniments maybe
they'd like to come along to rehearsal
make a play of a melody lines as you
teach them to your children it's
certainly help for you in running your
rehearsal but it also encourages them to
keep playing and it gives them some
learning experience and you never know
you could be developing and nurturing
your future accompanist so something to
keep in mind as you work in the next
video we will still just talk about some
general ideas for when you start your
choir maybe what your rehearsals would
look like where and when you can sing
but all of these ideas we will expand on
in more detail in the weeks to come and
the videos to come so if you have any
questions or feedback or if there are
specific topics that you want us to
discuss you can email me at Heather
underscore osmond at kin dots Salvation
Army org if you'd like to like our
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