SOMEONE PLEASE HELP

[FORGIVING]

HI EVERYONE OF MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST, I NEED HELP PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE. I DID A POST ON MAY 2ND, AND I DON'NT THINK ANYONE READ IT, AND PLEASE DON'NT TAKE THAT STATEMENT WRONG, I KNOW HOW BUSY EVERYONE CAN BE,  BUT I NEEDED HELP WITH TEACHING PARTS, SORP, TENOR, ALTO. I NEED TO KNOW HOW SOME OF THE NICE PEOPLE THAT TAKE THE TIME TO POST, FIND THE NOTE TO TEACH EACH PART. MY CHORDS ARE VERY BASIC AS I STATED EARLIER, . I HAVE SEEN SONGS THAT WERE POSTED WITH THE CHOIR PARTS, AND THE CHORD IS REVERSE , FOR INSTANCE IF THE CHORD WAS  F A C, IT WOULD BE  C FOR THE TENOR, A FOR THE ALTO AND F FOR THE SORP, I WOULD DO THE OPPSITE I WOULD PLAY THE C FOR THE SORP, THE A FOR THE ALTO, AND THE F FOR THE TENOR, SO WHICH IS CORRECT,   I REALLY NEED HELP BAD. I ALWAYS PITCH THE TENOR'S TOO LOW, SO COULD SOMEONE PLEASE HELP A SISTA OUT, I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE IT, HERE'S THANKING YOU IN ADVANCE, VONNIE.    ,......... P.S. YOU CAN EMAIL ME AT MY EMAIL ADDRESS AT lavonnawade@aol.com   "THANKS EVERYONE YOU GUYS ARE G...R...E...A...T"

[4hisglory]

If you chords are basic, you should be able to pull the 3 part Harmony from your chords.  Do you read music or just play by ear??

[nessalynn77]

I think there are a couple of ways to go about it:  You could try it both ways and see which one sounds right, if it seems too low, try the other way.  Or you could listen to the actual recorded songs and find the parts that way.  I don't think there's a hard fast rule for this, it varies with every song, and so you may have to play around with it to find out what sounds right.

[Bruh Kell]

I see where your confusion is coming from.

So here's my input.


When you are teaching choir parts, look at the keyboard and play the chord..............the sopranos have the highest note
                                                                                                                       the altos have the note in the middle
                                                                                                                       the tenors have the lowest note

Like say for instance we are using a C major chord...............

sopranos have................G
altos have......................E
tenors have...................C

If the tenors are too low, what you do is "invert"..........

"what does this mean?"..........Well in correspondance to our example you would do exactly this.

"Tenors are too low"........."okay"

sopranos have................C (one octave higher than the tenors old note)
altos have......................G (same note as sopranos' old note)
tenors have...................E  (same note as altos' old note)

IF THIS IS TOO MUCH WORK FOR YOU THEN DO THE EASY THING AND JUST MOVE THE KEY TO ONE THAT IS A LITTLE HIGHER.

[docjohn]

have you tried some of the backing tracks from christian bookstores?usually have full arrangement on one side,stripped down version on the other side.perhaps getting a few songs that you do ,have each section,altos,t,etc.,practice their parts so they learn where their supposed to be.bet roline has something in their product line.hope it helps,be blessed