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Judging Level
Instant Level Description
Judges Overview - Contest 2010

Judges Overview - Contest 2009
Performance Level Guidelines
Performance Level Characteristics


Tips & Tools from the Music Category 

Barbershop Style

Music Category Discussion

Checklist for Music Selection

Music Selection for the Novice Director

Choosing Suitable Contest Music

Contest Songs for C & C+ Choruses

Legal Music - Playing by the Rules

Interval Singing

How to Learn a Song Quickly


Skill Building

IES 2007 Class Handouts

Breathing Exercises

Building a Vocabulary

Carlin's View on Aging

Characteristics of Good Vocal Sound

Creative Teaching Tools

Exercises for the Mature Voice

Expressive Singing

Five Speeds of Breathing

Five Steps for a PVI Program

How to Learn a Song Quickly

How to Raise Your Scores

How to Stay Young

Mature Voice Bibliography

Personal Readiness Checklist

Qualifying Tape Feedback

Riser Chart (Excel)

Section Synch

Sings of Aging

Singing Exercises

Singing Your Part Smart

Synchronization Errors

Synchronized Sound

Ten Most Common Problems

The Total Singer

Vocal Warm-Ups

Vowels


Director Certification Program

Forward Motion Newsletter

March 2009

January 2009

October 2008

July 2008

March 2008

November 2007

September 2007

June 2007

March 2007

December 2006

September 2006

April 2006

January 2006

March 2005

January 2005


Director's Toolkit

SAI's Education Department has started assembling a list of resources appropriate to a "Directors Tool Kit". Below is a list of resources available through International sales and recommended as a basic tool kit for all front-line directors and their music staffs. The list will be updated and items added through the Forward Motion newsletter.

Your "basic" tool kit should contain these items:
    
• Breathing To Sing with Lori Lyford (video)
• PVI-Making A Difference (video)
• Warming Up to Vocal Freedom/Lila Mori (CD)
• Diva Method warm up/cool down (CD)         
• I’m Not Crazy, I’m vocalizing (CD)         
• Sing Legato (booklet)
• Get America Singing Again (songbook)
• Structure & Movements of Breathing (manual/brochure)
• Complete Choral Warm Up Book (manual/brochure)
• DCP Modules (set of 10)
• Judging Category Description Book

Other materials helpful for you to save and have on hand include copies of the Forward Motion newsletters, the
Betty Clipman Vocal Production Series, various IES CDs with class handouts and faculty résumés, and books and videos reviewed through the Resource Review Team and published in the Forward Motion newsletter.

To order any of the above materials, or to see a complete list of educational materials offered by Sweet Adelines, click
here

 


"Chicken Soup for the Directors' Soul"

2007 Retreat

Never Wear A Bow On Your Butt - Worry Traps!
Aging Voice
So Why Do I Stand Here?
Whatapity Whatapity


Coaching Schedules

(To list your chorus' coaching sessions, contact the Directors' Coordinator - Kira Wagner at kira.wagner@gmail.com

 


 

Miscellaneous

 

Seminar Directors' Class Handouts

2009 Fall Festival


 

Links

Sweet Adelines International - Directors Page

http://www.sweetadelineintl.org/directorpage.cfm
 

Learning Tapes

http://www.kimkraut.com/

http://www.larrywrightmusic.com/

http://www.timtracks.com (Tim Waurick)

judy@kotatv.jud (Judy Vial)

http://www.harmonize.com/amyleacock/Amys_Learning_
Tracks/Welcome.html
  (Amy Leacock)

 

Arranger Contacts/Lists

http://www.sweetadelineintl.org/music-arrangers.cfm

 

Published Music Search

http://www.sweetadelineintl.org/published-music-review.cfm

 

International Faculty Search

http://www.sweetadelineintl.org/faculty.cfm



 

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