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Our
workshops
These workshops are opened to anyone interested on Gospel music, who would like to learn to sing and, above all, who feels the need or simply would like to express his/her feelings by the means of this music. To sing Gospel, like most of the afro-american musics, is more important to have something to transmit, a feeling to express, rather than have a great technique (of course, if you have both things, much better!). At the same time you don’t necessarily need to be religious: we propose sessions in which each one experience the spirituality on his own way, without giving to it any name or label. So, it isn’t necessary any kind of training, knowledge or religion to enrol in any of our workshops. The only thing really necessary is to feel like learning, like singing and feel the need to express your feelings singing Gospel. This initiation Gospel workshops are usually structured in 2 sessions of 4 hours if the workshop is being celebrated in 2 consecutive days or in 2 sessions of 3 hours if those are being celebrated the same day. The work is in groups that, most of the times, are formed by people from different origins and musical levels. The workshop is based in a repertoire that the professor draws up specially for every occasion. Frequently the workshop starts with the professor asking to each one of the assistants to introduce themselves, and that each one explains briefly his/her relationship with music and what lead him/her to enrol to the Gospel workshop. After that the professor proceeds to make the assistants warm up their voices by some vocal exercises, both for the vocal cords and for all the muscles involved, that means mouth, neck, etc… At that point, the assistants are divided in subgroups according their tessitura and then the work starts. The professor works with all assistants as in a choir but also with each vocalist as a soloist, trying to cause improvisation as the main source of expression. Meanwhile, the professor gives a general vision of the social and historical context in which Gospel was born and developed so everyone can understand all what concerns this type of music. We don’t give musical scores because Taller de Gospel advocates that anyone, without any difference of knowledges, can assist to a Gospel workshop. There’s also another reason for which the musical scores are not being given, and it is because the professor could change some of the voices of each tune depending on the needs and the characteristics of each group, the number of members in each chord, etc…
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| © Taller de Gospel, 2005 | Last update: february, 2005 |