Choir Director

I'm a volunteer choir director of a choir full of volunteers. So we have a wide variety of skill levels. Some people are professionally trained and some people don't read music. So the resources that I recommend is to make rehearsal tracks for your choir so they can hear their part and practice it. And the resource I use to do that is called PlayScore 2. It reads the PDF of your sheet music and it breaks it out so you can play one staff at a time. And so you can, you know, if you have soprano, alto, tenor, bass all in different staves, then you can play each of those individually. You can play one of them loud and maybe the accompaniment soft so they can hear their part with the accompaniment, but it allows them to hear their part in multiple variations. And I post it on a simple website so that people can go get the sheet music, go get the rehearsal track, see the schedule, all of that.

Some recommended resources. I use several different companies that I order music from, one of which is JW Pepper. They have lots of really beautiful licensed choir music, as well as Jackman Music, and then there's a lot of free resources out there, but I would just make sure that you are very careful. I'm a stickler for copyrights, and so make sure that as you're ordering and preparing music. I have a library that we keep all of our music in at church, and I just make sure that everything gets cataloged, that we only make the appropriate amount of copies, that we're honest in our dealings, because I think it's super important to give credit to the people who wrote the music that composed it, and they should be paid for their work. So make sure that you're seeking out good sources for your music, and making sure that you're giving credit to those who wrote it.