choir practice
Group vocal preparation
Choir practice is a rehearsal session where a choir prepares musical pieces, typically for religious services or performances.
In American police slang, choir practice means an after-hours drinking session among officers—from Joseph Wambaugh's 1975 novel *The Choirboys*, where cops used the phrase as cover for their gatherings: The guys are having choir practice at O'Malley's.
- communal singingCollective vocal performance
- hymn singingVocalizing religious songs
- church basementSubterranean parish gathering space
- liturgyFormal worship structure
- breath controlManaging exhalation deliberately
sectionals · teamwork · pitch · collaboration · harmony · posture · solfège · part-singing · melody · choral director · group cohesion · sight-reading · articulation · blend · listening skills · dynamics · conductor · tone quality
- church activitiesSunday school, Bible study, church camp, church socials, church picnic
- performance trainingacting class, ballet class, dance class, drama class, drama school
- church choirchoirboys, choirmaster, chorister, choral, alto
- church ministryyouth ministry, church outreach, women's ministry, youth mentoring, children's ministry
- parish lifeSunday mass, confession, baptisms, weddings, funerals
- religious educationreligious education, Bible college, Bible stories, religious instruction, Sunday school
choir practicesolo practice
Unaccompanied skill work
solo performance · one-on-one instruction · instrumental solo · private coaching
choir practicebar hopping
Visiting several taverns consecutively
pub crawl · nightclubbing · carousing · happy hour · wild party