Welcome!

I really like acapella music. My friends and I have been dabbling with acapella music for about 6-7 years at the time of writing this. In these few years, we’ve ended up learning lots of things from friends, teachers, random acquaintances, and lots of YouTube videos.

While I don’t claim to be an expert in any of the things I’ve learnt, I realised that most people that I’ve learnt from aren’t experts either (except maybe my ex-choir conductor). We’re all just normal people with a side interest in music.

Which brings me to you. Any of these statements resonate with you?

• I feel like I’m a burden >< I can’t read sheet music
• I wanna try arranging a song I like, but I don’t even know where to start…
• My group has been practicing, but we’re not sure how to improve further 😦
• I can’t even boots and cats properly, how am I supposed to make my beatbox part sound interesting?!

Well here’s a bit of good news; that’s exactly what my friends and I are writing this blog to address.

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We want to teach you Practical Tips to help you and your fledgling acapella group achieve better music. From basics like reading sheet music in a simple, systematic way, to niche things like arranging and beatboxing, all from a mostly layperson perspective.

These are tips that we’ve learnt from trial and error / from others / thought about very carefully about over the past few years, which we very wholeheartedly believe that anyone else can also learn 🙂

All you need are a few things: functioning ears, functioning vocal cords, and a willingness to just try!

Also, try to get a stable WiFi connection and a set of earphones / headphones. There’s a lot of YouTube links in here that you should listen to, to understand what we’re talking about.

We’ll explore acapella music from the perspective of the average person, to figure out what works well and what doesn’t. We’ll also think about how we can adapt others’ great ideas to our own music, and how we can apply them in a simple, structured manner.

Sounds manageable right! 🙂

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A small word of warning: this blog will become quite lengthy (once my friends and I are done slowly adding stuff), so perhaps you could start by zooming in to the bits relevant or interesting to you. You can always glance through the rest later, if you ever need it.

And if you have any new ideas or tips to share, please let us know! We wanna learn from you too 🙂

Let’s all make better music together!

~ Andrew