We had a productive rehearsal this week! Seven of us were able to make it. One of our members has been using an app to create rehearsal tracks for us with just a "piano" playing the notes. So, once they finish and figure out the best way to get the files to me, those will be available on the Drive. They spent the first bit of rehearsal trying to figure out how to get us sheet music that makes it more clear how all the parts of "Dark of the Moon" interlock with each other, which would be a huge help! The rest of rehearsal we spent working on two pieces, "Harvest Chant" and "Equinox Chant", since Mabon was so recent. We almost missed "Equinox Chant" because it falls in the Ostara spot in the order of chants in that set but the lyrics are not Ostara-specific, so we went for it. There were some tricky bits we had to work through and we still need work on stagger breathing (especially me!) and starting phrases together but I think you can hear in the recording how well our listening exercises are paying off; other than our low voice, we all blend together enough that you can't really pick out individual voices.
Last week, I went through our sheet music and tried to find recordings of each piece on Spotify. I couldn't find recordings of the majority of them but there were several we've been working on or would like to work on that I was able to find recordings for, so I've put them on a TPC playlist. You can also make your own personal practice playlist by downloading our tracks from the Drive onto your phone and adding them to a playlist on Spotify.
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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