Your choir isn’t getting better for 4 reasons.

Schools teach choral directors to achieve excellence through 4 means:

1. Recruit great talent
2. Spend money on professional singers to add to your choir
3. Train your volunteers with endless 1:1 coachings
4. Rehearse with such excellence and inspiration that your singers acquire new skills and slowly move towards excellence

But how much better is your choir from a year ago? Honestly?

Most volunteer choirs experience the same thing: roughly the same level from one year to the next.

Why do most volunteer choirs get stuck? Because:

1. Recruiting: the very best singers expect to be paid for their talents. And the pool of highly capable volunteer singers willing to work for free is vanishingly small.
2. Spending: A roster of professional singers will run you anywhere from $15 to $90k a year. How many choirs have that kind of budget?
3. Training with 1:1s: every choir director who tries this learns rather quickly that they don’t, despite their heroic intentions, have 30 hours a week to train their singers.
4. Rehearsals: rehearsals are group instruction! And studies show that group instruction does not result in permanent skill formation for singers. (Which makes sense if you think about it: there is no instrument more unique and requiring careful, individualized attention than the human voice!)

Instead, give your choir asynchronous, daily, bite-sized learnings. You can even build and offer these yourself.

Or try 5 free Choir Snacks lessons with your choir (no email capture, no accounts, no credit cards).

Asynchronous, daily learning is an incredible method to develop excellence in your volunteer singers. And, thankfully, it’s accessible to the most under resourced choirs out there.

(And hey: don’t have a choir budget? Reach out! We have donors who sponsor accounts for such cases.)