TIPS & TUTORIALS
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Welcome to CHOIR CAKE!
Hello! We’ve been busy updating the CHOIR CAKE website to offer even better value for our members!
You’ll now find tips and tutorials from our founder – world-renowned vocal arranger Mark De-Lisser – plus a new, all-singing, all-dancing (see what we did there?) membership package.Â
There’s so much to explore! Let’s get stuck in!
Dive in: Conducting
Want to know how to get the best out of your conducting? Join Mark as he dives in to the subject of leading your choir, with five top tips to polish up your skills…
Dive in: Dynamics
Dynamics… wondering what it’s all about?Â
In this deep dive, Mark goes into the different elements of a song that we can work with, so you can make dynamic choices to enhance your choir’s performances.
Using the arrangement notes
Mark’s arrangement notes give a little bit of inside knowledge on each arrangement to our CHOIR CAKE Members!
What are you waiting for? Sign up for free today!
Rehearsing with audio parts
It couldn’t be simpler!
Each downloadable vocal arrangement comes complete with backing track and professionally recorded guide tracks for each harmony part, so your choir can learn while singing along with Mark and his singers.Â
The catalogue is open for all to explore, but remember – CHOIR CAKE Membership gives you exclusive discounts, arrangement notes and much more!Â
Singing is for EVERYONE!
Hello – I’m Mark De-Lisser, founder of CHOIR CAKE.
Singing connects people.
It creates communities. It lifts us up. It generates joy.
Research shows that singing as part of daily life increases confidence.
Singing in a group is even more powerful.
Picture the packed terraces at a football match, where thousands of cheering and singing fans infuse spectators and players alike with energy and passion.
Wherever it’s heard, collective song has the power to boost anyone who hears it.
And you don’t have to be a singer to experience the magic of singing in a group! You just have to open your mouth and create the long, sustained tones you did when you were first born!
Growing up in the church, singing was something the whole congregation did. Whether you believed you could sing or not, in that moment and in that space, you had a voice. We sat together and we sang together. What’s more – no one judged anyone on their voices, we just sang and created incredible sounds as a congregation.
One of my favourite texts from the Bible says, ‘make a joyful noise unto the Lord’.
Not ‘a tuneful sound’ – a joyful noise.
It’s a reminder that singing doesn’t have to be perfect; it should come from a place of absolute joy.
It should be about having fun. About enjoying and expressing yourself.
Choir leaders like you and I have the power to give people the confidence to lend their voices to a collective sound – however good (or otherwise) they think they are!
We’re born with a voice and that voice is unique to us.
I developed CHOIR CAKE to share the power of song with everyone from five-year-olds to 90-year-olds – and I do that by sharing exclusive vocal arrangements, backing tracks, tutorials and advice with choir leaders just like you.
By providing a safe space for others to express their voices with others – as part of a choir – you’re helping to spread the message that singing is for everyone!