Rehearsal Summary - 03/19/24

This week, our rehearsal fell on Ostara! (I hope everyone had a wonderful Equinox!) Five of us were able to make it out. Emori lead us in some breathwork and warmups, then we launched into learning a new song! One of the folks from my Tarot Pros group created a sigil generator with a musical sigil tool, so I decided to try it out on the intention "TPC grow and thrive". It gave us a fairly singable tune that works with the words, "Growing, Sowing, Come again, Ostara." (It also works with "Growing, Thriving, Triangle Pagan Choir", but that isn't quite as catchy, lyrically.) It was short enough that we were able to learn the whole thing and sing it through several times! We're considering opening our rehearsals each week by singing our sigil. I'll let you know if I come up with better lyrics! There are actually two other melodies that harmonize with the one we learned yesterday, so hopefully we can add those to our repertoire over time. We got a couple recordings that I'll upload to the Drive this evening.

Next week we plan to start working on the Beltane piece from the Chants set. If you'd like to review it at home, the sheet music and recordings are available on our Drive. For the naming conventions of the recordings, see the document in our Drive. If you're trying to practice at home and can't quite discern your note, you can use a keyboard app to plunk out whichever ones you're having trouble with.  (This is by no means an official endorsement, but the app I use is "Voice Training - Learn to Sing" by the developer Learn to Master. It labels the notes on the keyboard and gives you real-time feedback on what note you're singing.) If you need a tutorial on how to read music, this one seems sufficient for helping you figure out which note you want to find on the keyboard.

We had $20 in donations this week. Thank you so much to our generous donor! If you would like to track our accounting, you can view our donations and expenses spreadsheet and receipts on our Drive.

We're also honored and grateful to have been featured in the Ostara / Gender Euphoria edition of "Sick Ada's Musick Zine"! Thanks for the highlight, Ash!

We're excited to see how we keep growing in this new form and we can't wait to sing with y'all!

- El Pethybridge, Administrative Director

TrianglePaganChoir@gmail.com