All recordings should be done in clean, ironed concert dress:

  • Suit & tie /jacket, tie and trousers for gentlemen
  • Smart office wear or dresses for ladies
  • School uniform (shirt and tie but no blazer) for younger singers


Record on a device so the backing goes into your headphones and we only hear your voice not the backing track on your recording.

The words for the anthems should all appear on screen in the video so you can look up and not down.  For the hymns load up the separate lyrics file on to the recording device: we want eye contact with the camera during your singing.

We are taking part in a Service with Ashville college for Easter.   We will sing two anthems (one just WGS singers and one joint performance) and four hymns.

Rejoice the Lord is King

Here is a scan of the sheet music (we have copies but current circumstances mean we recommend using digital copies on your device):

The organ backing for Rejoice the lord is King by Malcolm Archer IS HERE.  You should sing along to this or one of the vocal guide tracks when recording. Play it in your headphones so the only recorded audio is your voice not the organ part.

Organ plus vocal guide: Soprano- please keep looking up at the camera lens.

Vocal guide: Alto- please keep looking up at the camera lens!

Vocal guide: Tenor- please keep looking up at the camera lens!

Vocal guide: Bass- please keep looking up at the camera lens!


For the Beauty of the Earth by Rutter

Here is a scan of the sheet music (we have copies but current circumstances mean we recommend using digital copies on your device):

Here is the bass guide vocal part with music on screen ,SO YOU CAN LOOK UP (DIRECTLY AT THE CAMERA THROUGHOUT)


Here is the tenor guide with music on screen, SO YOU CAN LOOK UP (DIRECTLY AT THE CAMERA THROUGHOUT):


Here is an alto guide with music on screen, SO YOU CAN LOOK UP (DIRECTLY AT THE CAMERA THROUGHOUT)

Here is a soprano part, sorry the words are not on screen.


Make sure you are standing up straight and your appearance is impeccable in appropriate concert dress.  The Christmas service was viewed 1,450 times and we all want you looking as well as sounding your best.

Here is the piano backing on its own for rehearsal.  Please use the tracks with the vocal guide and moving sheet music music so all the word endings for each part can be synchronised more accurately.

If everyone follows the vocal guides and ends the words in time with the recorded vocals they will sound very crisp and professional in the final mix

Please submit your files here.  Click to open folder or send your video via WeTransfer, DropBox, WeSendIt, OneDrive or similar

Do let Mr. T know when you have submitted a file

tedd.pja@woodhousegrove.co.uk 

There are some helpful recording tips here:

If you wish to submit a recording please read the information at the bottom of the page.

There are four hymns/songs

Here is a scan of the sheet music (we have copies but current circumstances mean we recommend using digital copies on your device):

Shine Jesus Shine:

Here are the backing track and the lyrics.  This is the backing track to record to.

Here are the lyrics- remember to have them on screen so you are looking up throughout.

Guide Me, Oh Thou Great Redeemer

The final backing  track with lyrics on screen.  You can add harmonies to the first two verses if you wish. Take care the first words are required immediately after the click.

MEN REMEMBER THE FINAL LINES ARE YOUR MOMENT OF GLORY.

1. Guide me, O Thou great Redeemer,
Pilgrim through this barren land.
I am weak, but Thou art mighty;
Hold me with Thy powerful hand.
Bread of heaven,
Feed me now and evermore;
Bread of heaven,
Feed me now and evermore.

2. Open now the crystal fountain,
Whence the healing waters flow;
Let the fire and cloudy pillar
Lead me all my journey through.
Strong Deliverer,
Be Thou still my Strength and Shield.
Strong Deliverer,
Be Thou still my Strength and Shield.

3. When I tread the verge of Jordan,
Bid my anxious fears subside;
Death of death, and hell's destruction,
Land me safe on Canaan's side.
Songs of praises, I will ever give to Thee;
Songs of praises, I will ever give to Thee.

Here is the harmony should you need it- the final verse is in unison!


Come people of the Risen King

Here are the backing track and the lyrics. This is the backing track to record to.

Here are the lyrics- remember to have them on screen so you are looking up.

Praise my Soul the King of Heaven

Here are the backing track and the lyrics. This is the backing track to record to.  The lyrics are on the video so you can look up- we want to have eye contact in the video.   Take care: the first words are required immediately after the click.

You can add the harmony parts if you have a hymn book and the facility so to do!


Here are the lyrics on their own for practice purposes.

Here is the harmony for verse two- but the words are not correct!


For interest only, here is a live performance of Come People of the Risen King if you wish to hear a slightly different version.

DO NOT RECORD TO THIS VERSION