Our next meeting is next Tuesday!
Only three of us were able to make it this week ('tis the season to be sickly, fa la la la la) but we managed to learn "Dawning of a New Day", the second of the Solstice songs we wanted to have ready for the song circle at the TAPA Solstice party on Saturday. I'm not as adept at music theory as Emori or some of our other members but it's a fairly straightforward piece, so I did my best to plunk it out enough for us to learn it. We added a rest where there isn't one to allow time for a breath. We made it a three beat rest, to mirror the other, but it might end up working better as a whole four beat rest. We learned it at a fairly slow tempo but that sounded a bit too much like a dirge, so we also tried it at a more cheerful, faster tempo. It seems like there are some interesting ways to play with both the tempo and dynamics to make it more interesting, so maybe we'll do that next week!
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. You can also listen to the TPC playlist of recordings of some of the pieces by professional artists on Spotify. 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.
Our next meeting is next Tuesday!
Five of us were able to make it this week. Emori was unable to attend, so we started out with a vocal warm-up track from Spotify and then worked on "Gods Rest Ye", which not everyone had worked on yet. We experimented with singing it in different ways. We tried singing along with a karaoke track from Spotify and also singing it a cappella and found that a cappella worked much better for us. We also experimented with singing it at various tempos and found that we sang more enthusiastically at a faster pace. We also spent some time discussing the lyrics so that we were more mindful about what we were singing and found that made us more enthusiastic, as well. We didn't get a recording this week but you can listen to the linked recording from a previous rehearsal.
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. You can also listen to the TPC playlist of recordings of some of the pieces by professional artists on Spotify. 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.
Our next meeting is next Tuesday!
There were five folks who could make it this week, two of whom were new! I'm sorry to have missed our new folks (due to having to drive out of town for the day) but I hope to meet them next week! My husband reports that the rehearsal was spent mostly on the harmonic exercises we've been working on to enhance our choral skills.
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. You can also listen to the TPC playlist of recordings of some of the pieces by professional artists on Spotify. 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.
