Practice

How to Practice:

Every week, you are expected to practice for at least 15 minutes per day at home in order to make the best music possible at rehearsals on Sundays.

Here is what you can do to practice at home:

Listen to recordings of the piece and follow along in your music.
Use the provided practice tracks in the practice track folder (below) to sing along to your part, clap rhythms, speak the text in rhythm, etc.
Read/sing through your music without the practice track to test your knowledge or memorization.

The only thing you can't do is NOTHING!

Tour Prep

Camerata!

Hey Camerata,

Sunset Serenade went great!

School is ending here soon, which means our tour will be coming up quickly. It is expected that your at home practice will continue in the weeks leading up to our tour.

Trilogy of Knighthood, this piece was in great shape for our concert. Continue reviewing this making sure you are confident on all of your entrances.

Rest not, continue reviewing and working to keep it memorized.

KFM, I believe this piece may be brought back for tour work to keep memorizing all the German.

Leave Her Johnny, Keep reviewing to keep this piece memorized.

Rocky Road to Dublin, Please review with tracks to ensure pitch accuracy, and to keep this memorized.

I have added a digital practice track for our workshop with the Minneapolis opera!

I am very excited for tour,

Jorgenson

LINK TO PRACTICE TRACKS

Spring 2026

Rocky Road to Dublin

They go fairly flat in both recordings, so try to not rehearse with these, but please watch both videos!

Concert Recording of the Ramparts.mp4

Required watching

You only need to watch the first 12 minutes, and you can watch it on double speed. For additional context, look up the following:
- What troubles might an Irish person face in England or America at the time?
- Why might "Paddy" want to leave Ireland to go to England?
  - What have you heard about the Irish Potato "Famine?"

For optional extra watching, watch Extra History's "Irish Potato Famine" for an in-depth but accessible video on the subject, "How Britain Starved Ireland" by The Gravel Institute for an academic perspective, or listen to "Famine" by Sinead O'Conner for an alternative rock telling of the story.

YCF - Rest Not

This is our song we will be teaching for Youth Choral Festival.
There are recordings of High School and higher groups doing this song, but honestly this middle school chorus has the best recording quality.

Holiday Reflections 2025

Riu Riu Chiu

This is a little bit higher than we will sing it. That said, this gives us an idea of how it might sound to sing this song, with the clapping and drums.

Fum Fum Fum

This is a little bit higher than we will sing it, but is the definite recording of this piece.

Lean On Me - Arr Billingsley

We will perform this at RYV Celebration.

Lean On Me - Arr Billingsley

We will perform this at RYV Celebration.

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