Three of us made it this week. After catching up and warming up, we went through "Maypole Dance" a few times. It's a fairly simple piece to pick up, especially with some small adjustments we've made, so we didn't linger on it. After that, we worked on "Summer's King". This is a more complicated piece, so we reviewed it stanza by stanza, working out some flat parts, before doing several repetitions of the full song. Once we were feeling confident, we split into parts. I'd been singing in the middle range with the other two fellas but we tried it with me popping up into the high range, the way I originally wrote it. I think it was harder for the guys to stay on pitch with me up high and it's at the top of my range so it was challenging for me, too!
You may remember from last week that we were considering making "We All Come from the Goddess / Hoof and Horn" our standard way of closing out rehearsal but one of our members informed me "We All Come from the Goddess" was written by a transphobe, which I have just verified to the best of my ability. He also reported that she apparently hates the "Hoof and Horn" version, which seems likely based on what I was able to find online. So we're considering whether we should give up the piece or if it's better to have a bunch of trans people singing the version she doesn't like as an act of defiance. I invite our trans members to weigh in on the subject in any of our social spaces, if they wish. We're also considering replacing it with "May the Circle Be Open".
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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