Three of us made it out this week. After a quick warm-up, we dug into "Dark of the Moon", since three is the perfect number for that piece and we're moving into that moon phase. First, since at least one of us hadn't had much rehearsal time with that piece, we went through each of the three melodies a few times until we all felt pretty good about all of them. Then, I played the Libana recording so our person who had never sung it in the round before could hear how all three melodies fit together. Then we divvied them up and gave it a whirl. It's a really challenging piece but they took to it right away! By our third time through, our folks on Melody 2 and Melody 3 were locked in perfectly. For the first time, I finally felt like I got the rhythm of Melody 1 correct in relation to the other two parts. Unfortunately, I was so focused on the rhythm, I hit a bunch of sour notes. But that's still progress, so I'll take it! We talked about how to adjust to improve next time and I'm really looking forward to giving it another go!
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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