Greg Gilpin

Review: This collection of enjoyable and challenging tongue twisters using every letter of the alphabet is set to fun music for all ages. Say them! Sing them! Use them to focus your choir's attention! These tongue twisters are effective tools to improve diction and enunciation, while offering some amusing 'icebreaker' moments. Whether used as a warm-up, warm-down or focus moment, they will taunt even the most talented in town with a tang-tungling time! Greg Gilpin has written the piano accompaniment with chord symbols so your choir can move up and down the scale with ease.

Songlist: 155 tongue twisters from A to Z

Review: This vocal speech collection contains eight chorals that are fun to learn, interesting to teach and entertaining for both performer and listener. You'll find something for holidays and patriotic celebrations, as well as a piece that teaches how to sing softly and to 'sing' musical rests. Your singers will learn how rhythms look, sound and feel and will be able to use their own musicianship skills throughout each piece by adding dynamics and vocal expression. Drum parts are included!

Songlist: Do You Feel The Rhythm?, Rock, Rhythm and Roll, Yankee Doodle Rhythm, Sshh, Rhythm and Dance, Yuletide Rhythm, Big Band Rhythm, Life is Full of Rhythm

Review: Let The Men Sing! is a new reproducible collection of chorals for tenor and baritone voices by Greg Gilpin. Folk songs, holiday music, madrigals, Latin settings, inspirational songs, and patriotic themes fill this 10-song collection. A budget-stretcher, the kit includes an Enhanced Studio Trax CD with accompaniment and performance tracks, as well as reproducible PDFs of the men's vocal parts, a poster, choreography, American Sign Language (1), instrument pages, cover art, information about the composer, and a program. Whether you have 10 or 100 male singers, this must-have collection will keep you on a budget while supplying your program with excellent choral literature for your young male singers for many years to come. 

Songlist: Gloria Alleluia, Music's Echo, Keep on Following the Star, Danny Boy, Cohan's Big Three, A Lyric Adramus Te, Swing Down, Chariot, My Wild Irish Rose, A Wreath Of Carols, Why We Sing

Review: Have fun traveling around the world with this collection of fun-to-sing unison folk song arrangements and easy-to-teach folk dances from nine diverse countries. All pages are reproducible and each unit includes a page of fun and interesting facts about the country, its people and traditions, as well as a related activity that teaches a music concept. The included CD provides performance and accompaniment versions of the song to help facilitate both dancing and singing in your classroom.

Songlist: United States Hawaii - Hukilau, Italy - Tarantella, Canada Quebec - Les Saluts, Israel - Hora, Indonesia - Urla Naga, Japan - Tanko Bushi, Ghana - Rhythm of the Highlife, Greece -, Germany -

Review: This arrangement of 'Kyrie/Kum Ba Ya' can be used for many voicing combinations. Cue-sized notes are included to create other voicing possibilities from this two-part mixed arrangement. Sung a cappella, Kyrie/Kum Ba Ya joins the beautiful simplicity of chant using traditional Latin text with the well-knownl African folk song Kum Ba Ya. Greg Gilpin's original gospel chorals are solid-gold. 'Keep on Following the Star' is no exception. His new original work for Christmas begins with an infectious chorus full of gospel harmonies and style. The verses are sung with an optional solo above gospel 'oo's.' Verse and chorus are repetitive, allowing for quick learning. Add a key change, followed by a hot a cappella with hand claps section, finish with a rousing ending and you've got a new hit for your concert this December. 'Think On Me' - Never has this art song by Alicia Ann Scott sounded so beautiful and chorally arranged so effectively than now. Heart-wrenching harmonies interpret the touching text and the almost hymn-like pianissimo, a cappella verse adds to the dynamic touches that build in the last refrain and fade away with the last lyric. A choral that will teach your students expression. There are so many options for 'All Through The Night' by Greg Gilpin. Optional lyrics also make it suitable for general use. The traditional lyrics are set to new music with a soft calypso feel. The piece may be sung a cappella or with optional piano accompaniment with the addition of low and high hand-drum parts. Simple part writing, solos, and several key changes create a work that will be easy to learn and fun to practice and perform. Choirs of all ages will enjoy this one!

Songlist: Kyrie/Kum Ba Ya, Keep On Following The Star, Think On Me, All Through The Night