Rehearsal Arts

About Rehearsal Arts

Since the start of the 21st century, Rehearsal Arts has been the gold standard for classical choral learning aids — helping singers learn their parts with studio-quality precision.

Bill Brett, founder of Rehearsal Arts
We created SingleParts™ to help you master your music. We are dedicated to producing them to the highest quality standards, with uncompromising attention to detail.
Bill Brett Founder

What is SingleParts™?

SingleParts™ is the ultimate "woodshedding" tool. It helps singers learn their notes, rhythms, and words on their own — so conductors can spend rehearsal time fine-tuning and polishing for performance.

On every title, a professional teaching singer performs your part clearly and precisely over a licensed performance recording with full orchestra, chorus, and soloists. You always know exactly how your line fits within the complete work.

StudySpots™

For the hardest passages — fugues, fast tempos, and tricky intervals or rhythms — we add StudySpots™. These sections are slowed by 15% to 50% to help you learn them quickly, then immediately repeated at full performance tempo so you can switch back and forth until the passage feels natural.

How SingleParts is made

  1. Step 1

    Start with a licensed master

    We begin with a licensed recording of a major choral work and send it to our Grammy-winning studio, Sound/Mirror in Boston, to serve as the backing context for our teaching singers.

  2. Step 2

    Record and mix each voice part

    Professional teaching singers from the Boston area record their voice part over the master. The studio then edits, mixes, and balances each recording — typically across three takes — so your part is always clearly heard.

  3. Step 3

    Create the User Guide

    We build a printed User Guide for each title listing every track, the chorus or section it covers, and page and measure references for the most commonly used scores. Track identification is also embedded in the downloadable MP3s.

  4. Step 4

    Release to the catalog

    The finished title is added to our catalog and website, ready to help conductors and singers master the music for a great performance.

The full process spans roughly a dozen distinct steps. It's demanding and expensive — but our users agree the result is worth it, giving every learning singer a solid sense of their part in the context of a complete performance.

Rehearsal Arts' objective is simple: produce choral learning aids that are as accurate as possible, so you can walk into rehearsal ready to perform.