What is ChoirParts.com?

I've been a choir director for most of my life. I have worked with a lot of smaller gospel choirs and groups. Often the choir members had little experience with choir singing. For them to learn choir songs effectively they needed LOTS of repetition and practice -- above and beyond the time spent in rehearsal.

So I started making practice recordings for each choir member. I would make a recording of myself singing the soprano part, then one with the alto part, then one with the tenor part. I would pass out tapes (yes, tapes, it was that long ago!) to everybody and they would listen to them on their own time and sing along. Many of the choir members found these practice recordings to be extremely helpful.

(I didn't know back then that it was a copyright violation for me to be making those recordings without getting a license from the publisher. I thought that since I was giving them away for free, it was OK. Lord help me. Now I know better.)

I discovered soon that even with a more experienced choir, the rehearsal tracks could make it possible for them to learn songs that might otherwise seem to be "too hard". Even a complicated part can be learned when you can hear it in isolation and practice singing it over and over.

So now I'm making recordings like this (mp3s instead of tapes!) that can be purchased and downloaded by anyone, at ChoirParts.com.

This playlist contains short excerpts from four mp3 files that are featured at ChoirParts.com.

First you'll hear the track that has all three choir parts combined, then you'll hear the soprano part, the alto part, and finally the tenor part.

The full-length versions of all these are available for purchase.

• Total Praise - Excerpt of combined parts
• Total Praise - Soprano excerpt
• Total Praise - Alto excerpt
• Total Praise - Tenor excerpt

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