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Sing for Hull
The Albemarle Broadband
A Song for you
Learn a song each week and improve your singing
Learning Resources
Find out more about musical instruments
Create and make ideas
a live performance
Take part in a City wide performance as we Sing for Hull
Welcome to Sing for Hull
We have created this project for all of our schools, families, workplaces and communities to come together once a week to all sing a song at the same time – together.
We’ve created a virtual band – The Albemarle Broadband for you to sing along with.
Over the next four days there is a different daily activity that helps you prepare for the performance at 13:30 on Friday.
So, in these challenging times, let’s celebrate all that is good about Hull, and “Sing for Hull!”
Week 9: Aint No Mountain
Day 1
Vocal warm-ups and learn the song!
Join Stephanie and Sean Miller as they take you through some fun warm ups, vocal health tips and teach you the song!
Day 2
Make and Create – Home Percussion
This week’s guest is percussion teacher Simon Higley, who shows us how we can make our own percussion instruments from household things. Given that the palm cockatoo from Australia can make his own drumsticks to play simple rhythms (and impress the ladies), we should find getting creative with household objects a simple task so that we can join in with this week’s hit ‘Ain’t No Mountain High Enough’ live on Friday.
Day 3
Performance Tips.
Stephanie Miller introduces today’s episode working on ‘Ain’t No Mountain High Enough’.
Having introduced the song in Monday’s episode, Stephanie tells us about the hit and its many versions.
Join Stephanie to get your body and voice warmed up before working on developing your singing to get you ready for Friday’s premiere.
Day 4
Instrument of the week – French Horn
James Dickinson, Dan Edwards (and Charlie the Chimp – of course!) & legendary French Horn player Garry Oglesby introduce this week’s episode.
Day 5- Live
Here it is!
Sing For Hull
Week 9: Marvin Gaye – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
Day 5: Live on Youtube (Hull Music Service Channel)
Join us live on Friday 5th June 2020 at 1.30pm as the city comes together to sing!
Stephanie Miller – Vocals
Pietro Lusvardi – Bass
Sean Miller – Keys, Backing Vocals
Phil Proctor – Guitar
Dan Edwards – Guitar
Alan Drever-Smith – Drums and Percussion
Rachael England – Violin
Kieran Lynch – Violin
Helga Penny – Viola
Kathryn Morris – ‘Cello
Alice Siddle – Saxophone
Suzanne Crowther – Trumpet
Elizabeth Hatton – Trombone
James Dickinson – French Horn
Audio edited by Alan Drever-Smith
Video edited by Alan Drever-Smith
Week 8: Lean on Me
Day 1
Vocal warm-ups and learn the song! Join Stephanie and Sean Miller as they take you through some fun warm ups, vocal health tips and teach you the song!
Look out for James Dickinson introducing our new Composition Challenge at the end of today’s episode!
Day 2
This week’s guest is percussion teacher and our resident composer Tom Lawrence.
Tom introduces our new composing competition where we would like you to create and make music to go with our new graphic featuring the iconic Albemarle Music Centre.
We are looking for a wide variety of music of different styles and moods to use in different contexts, such as on the website, in videos and even at live events, so there are lots of chances for your music to be heard!
Day 3
Performance Tips.
Stephanie Miller introduces today’s episode working on Bill Withers’ original version of ‘Lean on me’.
Having introduced the song in Monday’s episode with a different version (to suit group singing) Stephanie tells us about how Bill Withers’ version is at a lower pitch and has a longer ending. Join Stephanie to get your body and voice warmed up before getting to grips with the original version.
Day 4
Instrument of the week – Flute
Selina Slater introduces this week’s episode starting with how the flute works: its many parts and how it is played.
Day 5 - Live
Here it is!
Sing For Hull
Week 8: Bill Withers – Lean On Me
Day 5: Live on Youtube (Hull Music Service Channel)
Join us live on Friday 22nd May 2020 at 1.30pm as the city comes together to sing!
Stephanie Miller – Vocals
Pietro Lusvardi – Bass
Sean Miller – Keys, Backing Vocals
Phil Proctor – Guitar
Alan Drever-Smith – Drums
Rachael England – Violin, Claps
Kieran Lynch – Violin, Claps
Helga Penny – Viola, Clicks
Kathryn Morris – ‘Cello, Taps
Selina Slater – Flute
Edyta Prajsnar – Backing Vocals
Shelley Gabriel – Backing Vocals
Alice Siddle – Backing Vocals, Claps
Suzanne Crowther – Backing Vocals, Claps
Elizabeth Hatton – Backing Vocals, Claps
Special Guests:
David Smalley
Clare Todd
Christine Nolan
James Dickinson and Family
Helen Giddings
Wendy Orr
Simon Higley
Audio edited by Alan Drever-Smith
Video edited by Alan Drever-Smith
Week 7: Firework
Day 1
Vocal warm-ups and learn the song!
Join Stephanie and Sean Miller as they take you through some fun warm ups, vocal health tips and teach you the song!
Day 2
Make and Create – Music Technology
This week’s guest is guitarist and technical wizard Luke Bolton who shows us how we can make and create our own music technology.
Luke shows us how to use basic mixing techniques using Logic Pro, with top tips on how to get the balance right across the individual tracks and even polish up the overall sound by using panning to move the sounds between the left and right stereo channels.
Day 3
Performance Tips.
Stephanie Miller introduces today’s episode with some interesting facts about this week’s song – ‘Firework’. Are you feeling alive, awake, alert and enthusiastic? If not, Stephanie will soon get you warmed up with her physical and vocal exercises!
A good vowel exercise is always the best way to start the day, so join in with Stephanie and Sean to get your vowels clear!
Day 4
Instruments of the week – Piano & Keyboard
Sean Miller introduces this week’s extended instrumental feature with the help form our piano and keyboard teachers.
Day 5 - Live
Here it is!
Sing For Hull
Week 7: Katy Perry – Firework
Day 5: Live on Youtube (Hull Music Service Channel)
Join us live on Friday 15th May 2020 at 1.30pm as the city comes together to sing!
Get Ready!
Stephanie Miller – Vocals
Alice Siddle – Saxophone
Suzanne Crowther – Trumpet
Elizabeth Hatton – Trombone
Pietro Lusvardi – Bass
Sean Miller – Keys
Phil Proctor – Guitar
Alan Drever-Smith – Drums and Percussion
Audio edited by Luke Bolton and Alan Drever-Smith
Video edited by Alan Drever-Smith
Week 6: This is My Wish
Day 1
Vocal warm-ups and learn the song!
Join Stephanie and Sean Miller as they take you through some fun warm ups, vocal health tips and teach you the song!
Day 2
Shelley Gabriel is back with this week’s Make and Create episode, where we learn how to create our own backing vocals.
We find out what backing vocals are, what they are used for and why, and how we can use our ears to help us create our own vocal harmonies.
Shelley uses this week’s hit ‘This is my wish’ to demonstrate the use of backing vocals to provide harmony in the chorus, emphasise particular words in the song and add structure to the piece.
Day 3
Performance Tips.
Stephanie Miller introduces today’s episode with warm-ups, facts and advice on learning to sing ‘This is my wish’.
Get warmed up – physically and vocally – and learn the song so that you can take part in Friday’s premiere of ‘This is my wish’ by Kevin Ross in our live premiere with the Albemarle Broadband here on our YouTube channel.
Stephanie encourages you to listen to something by Stevie Wonder, whose music inspired Kevin Ross to take up music as a career!
Day 4
Instruments of the week – Double Bass & Bass Guitar
Pietro Lusvardi introduces the Double Bass and the Bass Guitar – with some fine examples of classical, jazz, folk and pop favourites. Pietro shows the amazing range of sounds and styles with the Theme from the slow movement of Mahler’s 1st Symphony, Autumn Leaves, Someday my Prince will Come and even a Bossa Nova to get our feet tapping!
We get to meet another instrument – the kazoo! and Pietro multiple-tasks with a duet for kazoo and double bass! Pietro also demonstrates the bass guitar with excerpts from Queen’s ‘Another one Bites the Dust’ and Arctic Monkeys ‘Do I wanna know’.
Day 5 - Live
Here it is!
Sing For Hull
Week 6: Kevin Ross – This Is My Wish
Day 5: Live on Youtube (Hull Music Service Channel)
Join us live on Friday 8th May 2020 at 1.30pm as the city comes together to sing!
Stephanie Miller – Vocals
Shelley Gabriel – Backing Vocals
Alan Drever-Smith – Backing Vocals
Rachael England – Violin
Kieran Lynch – Violin
Helga Penny – Viola
Kathryn Morris – Cello
Pietro Lusvardi – Bass
Sean Miller – Keys
Phil Proctor – Guitar
Dan Edwards – Guitar
Alan Drever-Smith – Drums
Guest clappers: Suzanne Crowther, Tallulah Vigars, Alice Siddle, Liz Hatton
Audio edited by Alan Drever-Smith and Luke Bolton
Video edited by Alan Drever-Smith
Week 5: Shotgun
Day 1
Vocal warm-ups and learn the song!
Join Stephanie and Sean Miller as they take you through some fun warm ups, vocal health tips and teach you the song!
Day 2
Instrument of the week – Trombone and Euphonium
Liz Hatton introduces the Trombone and the Euphonium giving us lots of insights into the history of these instruments and how they are played as well as their roles in the music we hear. Look out for the topical ‘rainbow’ inclusion as well as some amazingly fast Euphonium playing in Monti’s Czardas!
Day 3
Performance Tips.
Stephanie Miller introduces today’s episode with warm-ups, facts and advice on learning to sing ‘Shotgun’.
Day 4
Make and Create.
Special guest Dan Edwards (with extra special guest Charlie the Chimp!) introduces today’s episode showing how to make and create a chord progression using the four chords needed to play along to this week’s hit Shotgun. Charlie asks lots of questions about what chords are, how they sound and how are they used – giving Dan a lot of explaining to do!
Join us on Friday 1st May at 1.30 pm for our YouTube Premiere!
Day 5 - Live
Here it is!
George Ezra – Shotgun
Live on Youtube (Hull Music Service Channel)
Join us live on Friday 1st May 2020 at 1.30 pm as the city comes together to sing! Get Ready! Special Guest – Right Worshipful the Lord Mayor of Kingston upon Hull and Admiral of the Humber Steve Wilson
Stephanie Miller – Vocals
Alice Siddle – Saxophone
Suzanne Crowther – Trumpet
Elizabeth Hatton – Trombone
Pietro Lusvardi – Bass
Sean Miller – Keys
Phil Proctor – Guitar
Alan Drever-Smith – Drums and Percussion
Audio edited by Luke Bolton and Alan Drever-Smith
Video edited by Alan Drever-Smith
Week 4: Waka Waka
Day 1
Vocal warm-ups and learn the song!
Join Stephanie and Sean Miller as they take you through some fun warm ups, vocal health tips and teach you the song!
Day 2
Make and Create Percussion Instruments.
Shelley Gabriel shows you how you can make simple african-style percussion instruments to use in this week’s song Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) on Friday at 1.30 pm.
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5 - Live
Here it is!
Sing For Hull Week 4: Shakira – Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)
Day 5: Live on Youtube (Hull Music Service Channel) Join us live on Friday 24th April 2020 at 1.30 pm as the city comes together to sing!
Week 3: Something Inside So Strong
Day 1
Vocal warm-ups and learn the song!
Join Stephanie and Sean Miller as they take you through some fun warm ups, vocal health tips and teach you the song!
Make and Create Lyrics.
Shelley Gabriel tells you how you can create lyrics for your own song with ideas on how to structure your lyrics using key words, rhyming words, shaping your lyrics, as well as how to use verse and chorus sections. Join us on this channel on Friday 17th April at 1.30 pm for our ‘Sing for Hull’ premiere of ‘Something Inside So Strong’ featuring the Albemarle Broadband! See you there!
Performance Tips.
Stephanie Miller introduces today’s episode with warm-ups, fun facts and advice on learning to sing Labi Siffre’s award winning song ‘Something Inside So Strong’.
Instrument of the week – Drum kit.
Alan Drever-Smith introduces the drum kit with its many sounds and effects, giving us an insight into what the instruments are made from and the different ways of playing them to get the huge
Day 5 - Live
Here it is!
Sing For Hull Week 3: Labi Siffre – Something Inside So Strong
Join us live on Friday 17th April 2020 at 1.30 pm as the city comes together to sing! Get Ready!
The Albemarle BroadBand:
Stephanie Miller – Vocals
Shelley Gabriel – Backing Vocals
Rachael England – Violin
Kieran Lynch – Violin
Helga Penny – Viola
Kathryn Morris – Cello
Pietro Lusvardi – Bass
Sean Miller – Keys
Dan Edwards – Guitar
Phil Proctor – Guitar
Alan Drever-Smith – Drums and Percussion
Martin King – Percussion
Audio and Video edited by Alan Drever-Smith
Week 2: Let's Go Fly a Kite
Day 1
Vocal warm-ups and learn the song!
Join Stephanie and Sean Miller as they take you through some fun warm ups, vocal health tips and teach you the song!
Day 2
Instrument of the week – Violin.
Kieran Lynch introduces the violin and provides lots of interesting info about its anatomy as well as the different sounds that it makes.
Day 3
Performance Tips.
Stephanie Miller introduces today’s episode with warm-ups, fun facts and advice on singing ‘Let’s Go Fly a Kite’ to a whole new level.
Day 4
Create and Make
Shelley Gabriel shows you how you can make your own amazing umbrellas and kites in preparation for our YouTube premiere of Song for Hull’s ‘Let’s Go Fly a Kite’ – Friday 10th April at 1.30 pm.
Day 5 - Live
Week 2: Let’s Go Fly a Kite
Day 5: Live on Youtube (Hull Music Service Channel)
Join us live on Friday 10th April 2020 at 1.30 pm as the city comes together to sing!
If you have made a prop…have it at the ready!
Stephanie Miller – Vocals
Alice Siddle – Saxophone
James Dickinson – Horn
Suzanne Crowther – Trumpet
Elizabeth Hatton – Trombone
Rachael England – Violin
Kieran Lynch – Violin
Helga Penny – Viola
Kathryn Morris – Cello
Pietro Lusvardi – Bass
Sean Miller – Keys
Dan Edwards – Guitar
Tom Lawrence – Snare Drum
Alan Drever-Smith – Percussion
Audio and Video edited by Alan Drever-Smith
Week 1: Eye of the Tiger
Day 1
Vocal Warm-ups and learn the song!
Join Stephanie and Sean Miller as they take you through some fun warm ups, vocal health tips and teach you the song!
Guitar Demo
Sean Miller introduces Day 2 of Sing for Hull’s Eye of the Tiger featuring guitar teacher and player Phil Proctor. Get your guitars ready for some top tips in learning this hit!
Practical Tips
Create and Make
Shelley Gabriel shows you how you can make your own Tiger Mask and Instruments out of: cardboard box, kitchen roll tube, wool / elastic bands – you will need: scissors, pencil, string & felt-tip pens.
Here it is!
Live on Youtube (Hull Music Service Channel)
Join us live on Friday 3rd April 2020 at 1.30 pm as the city comes together to sing!
If you have made a prop…have it at the ready!