Only three of us could make it out this week but we had a great time! Since the moon was (mostly) full, we worked on our two main moon pieces, "Moon, Sister Moon" and "Full Moonlight Dance". We started working with the versions for which we have music and TPC recordings but we also played around with other versions. We enjoy the version of "Moon, Sister Moon" by Moving Breath because it's a bit more fast-paced and makes you want to move your body. (Though I still love the reverence of the slower version.) We went through several recordings of "Full Moonlight Dance". We started with the Libana recording because we've used it in the past. Then we tried a few other versions that we didn't care for. Finally, we found a recording by Karen Beth that I absolutely fell in love with! In fact, I replaced the Libana recording with Karen Beth's on the TPC Spotify playlist! We closed out the night with some of our favorite classics, "Cauldron of Changes" and the version of "We All Come From the Goddess" that includes "Hoof and Horn". On an entirely related note, I've just made a YouTube playlist for TPC! Hopefully that will increase accessibility for folks who don't use 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. 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.
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