Learning the music:
Learning any song can be challenging or it can be fun, so we are putting together a few videos and audios to help you along. There are tips and helpful hints on how to warm up and get the most from each song. Use them solo, follow them in a group.
- “Call and repeat” which is how you learn each song, a singing coach brings you through the song line by line – they sing it first, then you repeat it
- “Bringing it all together” which is where you get to sing the song with the recorded voice of the singing coach and a piano accompaniment
- “Singalong” which is just the accompaniment you can sing along with. In this instance, the video has the words ‘karaoke style’ along the bottom of the screen with a guide line.
Óró, ‘s é do bheatha ‘bhaile
Call and repeat video: Link to come
Bringing it all together video: Link to come
Singalong video:
Backing track:
Track with vocals:
The Parting Glass
Call and repeat video: Link to come
Bringing it all together video: Link to come
Singalong video:
Backing track:
Track with vocals:
Some ideas for rehearsing together while staying apart:
- Learn online, over the phone or from songs available through SingIreland.ie and The Royal Irish Academy of Music, on this site and through our social media
- Sing along with family, friends, your neighbours
- Join in an online class – we will start listing them here
- Tune in to radio and TV features on RTE
- Sing at the kitchen table, over the fence, at your front gate with your neighbours, or in your favourite armchair
- You might learn a new song, recall old ones, debate the best ones
- Try new ways to sing, get creative and compose something new to share.