Virtual choirs

I personally love virtual choirs. We’ve seen them from lots of different places. We’ve seen them from Eric Whitacre with his Virtual Choir 6: Sing Gently, which I was a part of. We’ve seen them from high schools and elementary schools.

They’ve become a bit of a cliché recently because of COVID-19 and stay at home orders, but I still enjoy them. They’re a great way for students choir members to feel like they’re still part of a community and still with their friends. Even though they’re all recording themselves at home and not hearing the other students, they can feel like they’re a part of a larger community.

If you’re thinking about putting something like that together, and you have the resources, then definitely do it. I’ve made a few with my students and they’ve always enjoyed them. Even the students that didn’t sing enthusiastically enjoyed seeing the finished product. So definitely do it if you have the resources.

If you don’t know how to make them then see my video How to make a virtual choir … in 5 time consuming steps. That has some tips on how to make a virtual choir so definitely check it out. If you’re still confused feel free to send me an email or send me a DM on Twitter or Instagram. I’m happy to help any other teachers out.

I also think there’s something magical about them. It looks like it’s something that’s really hard to edit and put together.

As someone that has put together a number of these I know the process. It’s not magical, but it is incredibly time consuming and tedious. If you can imagine it, it’s not a bunch of different things. It’s a lot of the same thing. It’s a lot of timing videos and adding fade ins, and adding fade outs, and adding EQ and compression.

There’s a lot of that. Lots of the same thing. There’s nothing really fancy about it.

Some people have done some fancy things, that I personally don’t know how to do yet, but still the main idea of it is pretty simple. Get all the videos. Sync them up. Then put them all together. That’s the main idea. Pretty simple, but incredibly tedious.

That’s it for this post. Make sure to sign up for my newsletter. Thanks for reading. Have a good day. Peace.

ISJ