Drew Cantrill Fenwick presents a film discussing the variety of skills needed to get the best out of singers in a choir, from warm-up exercises, help with note learning and interval recognition, and conducting techniques. 

William Saunders explains how to set up and run a workshop to introduce the organ to new players, with hints on planning, organisation, publicity, funding, and finding an audience for organ outreach events.

Simon Williams gives a short guide to the basics of organ registration for both early-stage organists and lovers of organ music.

Simon Mercer explains how to approach the rewarding activity of accompanying a choir, on both the piano and the organ. He discusses mental preparation, rehearsal skills and registration, using anthems by Wesley and Bainton as examples.

In this film, Robin Harrison outlines strategies to improve aural skills.  He discusses aspects of pulse, pitch, and phrasing, and suggests transposition and memorisation exercises to train the inner ear.

Nicholas Madden and Paul Trepte perform Who alone is good for tenor solo and organ, a setting by Paul Trepte of the words of St Francis of Assisi, which won the 25 years and over category in the RCO’s Composition Competition in 2020.

In two recorded webinars, Frederick Stocken discusses the continuo realisation question in the Keyboard Skills Tests for FRCO. 

In this practical guide William Dore, Organist at Ampleforth Abbey, explains the characteristics and traditions of plainchant or plainsong.  He discusses notation, and how to create an accompaniment to plainchant, including ideas on rhythm, suitable harmonic progressions, and cadences in keeping with the modality and mood.

The psalms set to Anglican chant are an art form in themselves, and an excellent test of the organist’s skills as accompanist. Jeffrey Makinson, Assistant Director of Music at Lincoln Cathedral, explains how to read pointing, memorise chant, and plan registration schemes.