The Little Girl of Rain

Spotlight on Jonathan Dove, featuring A Day in the Life of a Composer and an interview with Charlotte Brosnan.

This playlist offers an alternative style of song for this age group, offering many opportunities to extend learning across other areas of the curriculum using song as the starting point.

Advice from Friday Afternoons Ambassadors Emily Barden and Charles MacDougall on how to count and keep a steady pulse.

Friday Afternoons Ambassadors Dominic Ellis-Peckham and Emily Barden share their top tips on how to include dynamics into your singing.

Friday Afternoons Ambassador Charlotte Brosnan shares some performance skills tips.

Friday Afternoons Ambassador Charles MacDougall shows us some techniques on how to encourage your singers to sing more smoothly, with legato.

Advice on breathing and airflow technique from Friday Afternoons Ambassadors Charles MacDougall and Tom Appleton.

A resource to help you creating your own songs, by using elements from the 2016 Friday Afternoons songs. This document, created by David Ashworth, focusses on two of Jonathan Dove's songs, 'Fast Car' and 'The Little Girl of Rain'.