Four of us made it out this week, including a new person! Two of our folks were delayed considerably, so our new person and I spent the first hour getting to know each other. Once the other two showed up, we did a quick warm-up and then worked on "Dark of the Moon". We wouldn't normally spring such a challenging piece on a new person but this new person minored in music in college! We ran through each melody about three times. She caught on so quickly that she just needed to hear each melody once or twice and sing it twice to feel confident! Since three of us had already sung it in the round together and our new person was such a quick study, we decided to try putting all three parts together. We played the Libana recording for her as an example and she only needed to hear it once to jump right in on the hardest melody! I didn't want to stress out the new person with recording but, believe me, she knocked it out of the park!
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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