Three of us made it out this week. We tried out a few new warm-ups, introducing ones intended to exercise vocal agility and tone. We spent the rest of the time refining "The Dawning of a New Day". We decided early that we liked starting out with a slow tempo on the first repetition, then increasing the tempo with each following repetition. We noticed our volume was also instinctively increasing, which only benefitted the effect. One member noted that it echoed the gentleness of dawn flowing into the brightness of day. We also noted that this song would sound great with a drum! Our primary challenge was figuring out the rests and breaths. The final line provides no rest for breathing, so you have to manage your breath for sixteen beats, which can be tricky. We experimented with resting in various places but none worked well with the flow. Eventually, we settled on removing the word "all" from the last line, since the meaning and rhythm still work without it and it provides a breath around when it's needed. In instances with more singers, those who can manage their breath for all sixteen beats can still sing "all", while those who need to take a breath can omit it. I'm pretty pleased with where we landed by the end of 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.
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