Two of us made it this week; our newest member has been consistent! After warm-ups, we started with "Wings of Night", experimenting with different harmonies than an octave, particularly thirds. We also worked on "Equinox Chant" and "Samhain's Door", exploring possible harmonies for those, as well. Next, we worked on "Luna's Lullaby", including adjusting our dynamics to fit the atmosphere of the piece. Finally, we spent some time with "Dark of the Moon". We reviewed all three melodies a few times, focusing on Melodies 2 and 3, so we could put them together. The easy part about doing those two is they fit together like lock and key at times, so it's easier to keep your place. The challenging part part of doing those two is the tendency to get pulled into the one the other person is singing, since they have some similarities. Eventually, we were able to get a working ability to keep our parts and fit them together basically correctly. In related news, our newest member has been working on transcribing "Dark of the Moon" into sheet music that will actually show how they fit together so we can stop guessing with our ears and counting measures!
Last week, a lot of other responsibilities pushed TPC admin down the to do list and out of my mind, so I didn't manage a rehearsal summary and only churned out a quick, last minute "Oops, rehearsal is on" for the "Next Rehearsal" blog entry. To retroactively cover the week that didn't get its own entry, we covered all of the songs above (except "Dark of the Moon", if I recall correctly) and also worked on "Harvest Chant". In other news, in the last couple weeks, we've welcomed two new babies to the community! Congratulations to our members and their families! Both are first time parents. If you'd like to contribute to their Meal Trains to help keep them fed during the challenging newborn period, you can find them in the TPC Group on Facebook.
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.
No comments:
Post a Comment