Downloads
Resources
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'.
Accessibility Resources
Figurenotes is a way of notating music, using colour and shape to show pitch and rhythm. Work through 3 simple stages to quickly progress to standard notation. Our partners at Drake Music Scotland have created resources for Friday Afternoons to make the songs accessible and quick to learn.
Scores for the visually impaired including large print and braille.
Other Song Information
Song Credits
Music byWords by
Singers: National Youth Choir of Great Britan Boys' Youth Choir
Conductor: Greg Hallam
Accompanist: Ruairi Edwards
Pianist: Nathan Williamson
Music by Jonathan Dove
Lyrics by Alasdair Middleton
Published by Peters Edition Limited, London
