Only three of us could make it this week but one of our members had just returned from a Sun Dance ceremony in New York and shared with us a song she was taught and received permission to share, so that was pretty special! She also shared her sweetgrass with us! (She's been trained in the appropriate ways to handle sweetgrass and returned with plugs to start in her garden!) After that, we worked on "Lammas Chant". I think we made the right call changing the final note to a harmony because that same member instinctively hit the higher note in the harmony, even though she hadn't been there last week and it wasn't on her sheet music! She also pointed out that there are additional verses on the reverse that we had forgotten existed! We didn't take any recordings this week but we did make progress on putting the other verses to the melody.
If you'd like to review any of our material, 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.
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