Practice

If you are reading this, you just earned 10 imaginary marbles!!! Yay for you!

I hope you all enjoy your evening off. I miss you, and wish I were at practice tonight!

Well, for your homework, I'd like you to watch these videos on youtube.com. You might have to get your parents to help you if your internet blocks these. But I think you'll really like these! Try to watch and listen and come to practice next week ready to tell me good and bad things you saw and heard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmDGntpZC3I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKzJFpV0cqM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmTWVJ_pXBk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3DaJEle8bs&playnext=1&list=PL08F501A55B4ACCC4

Song Recordings

Here are some of the song we are working on or will be working on. I encourage you to listen to these while following along in your music - meaning you should follow the notes with your finger.

1. Manx Lullaby - Solfege
As of today, we haven't worked on this song in practice yet. It is a simple, yet beautiful song that I love! To start following the notes, have your finger ready where shown in the picture below.

Youtube videos to watch

Here's a video of a women's chorus singing, "How Can I Keep from Singing?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTZiSa81xec


This is another song we are going to do. "I Believe in Springtime"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3Uxm4v4iUU

Have fun watching! You guys did great at practice this week!

Words for the CD's

Here are words for two of the songs. I'll post the other two tomorrow. Also, please, please, PLEASE, do the breathing exercises every day!!!

Thanks!



'Cross the Wide Missouri

Away, I'm bound away 'cross the wide Missouri.

The water is wide, I cannot get o'er.
Give me a boat to take me home.
My true love waits on yonder shore,
So far away, so long alone.

But love is gentle, and love is kind;
and love can soothe a lonely heart.
The more we seek, the more we find,
Love keeps us strong though we're apart.

For it's many long years since last I saw you,
Away, you rollin' river.
And still I know I have not lost you.
Away, I'm bound away 'cross the wide Missouri.

The water is wide, but I must cross o'er.
Bo more can I be all alone.
My future waits on yonder shore.
Send me a boat to take me home
'cross the wide Missouri.


Cold and Fugue Season

We just want to sing this classy fugue for you.
But I keep on sneezing and sneezing,
and my neighbor's coughing and wheezing,
And I don't think Bach wrote sneezes in this fugue.

I don't think we'll ever make it through this song
Without Kleenex, coughdrops, and NyQuil
Hot tea and a heating pad and Vicks and a doctor bill
and anyway I think it's much too long!

Please pass the kleenex.
Hand out the coughdrops.
Turn on the vaporizer.
Call for the flu shots.

Dish out the chicken soup.
Hand out the crackers.
Please call my mother,
I'm feeling sick!

Mom, please take me home.
(Put me to bed)
I have this cold
(My aching head)
I should have stayed
(home like you said)
but here I am instead,

Oh, I don't want to sing this classy fugue for you,
'Cause we keep on sneezing and sneezing,
and my neighbor's coughing and wheezing,
And I don't think Bach wrote sneezes in this fugue.

Listening Exercise!!!

Okay everybody - remember this week at practice when I played two notes on the piano, and it was really hard to hear and sing the bottom note, but super easy to sing the top note? I want to teach you how to find the bottom notes - and not just that, but how to hear and sing middle notes.

So, here is a link to a Wikepedia page about a very famous Symphony - this is Symphony No. 5, movement 1 by Beethoven. I am sure you will recognize the beginning of it.

What I want you to do is listen to this and list all the instruments you hear. There are a lot! I especially want you to listen to the lower instruments - tuba, cello, and double bass. Hear how they repeat things that the higher instruments play? After you listen to it once, listen again, and see if you can pick out something you didn't hear before. Maybe another instrument. Also, listen for short notes and long notes. Does one instrument hold a long note while another instrument plays short notes?

So. here is the website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beethoven%27s_5th

Click on that link and scroll down until you see this on the right side of the screen:

You can see there are two recordings here. Both are the same music, but one is a college orchestra, and the other is a professional orchestra. Start with the second one - the Fulda Symphony. Then, listen to the other one. See if you can hear differences in the way they perform the music.

Have fun and listen away!!!

CD's and missing practice

Hi, everyone! We gave out CD's last night, so for those of you who missed practice, I put CD's on my front porch, right by the door.

My address is 1821 S Demetro Dr. (900 E) Clearfield, UT 84015. If your parents want directions, they can call me at (801) 784-0106.

***** If you missed practice, it is really important that you come get a CD because we learned a lot of the music on it at practice, so you need to get busy! *******

I will post some words for the songs up here tonight, so come back to have words to help you as you practice with your CD's.

Rhythm Pattern Videos

Okay, get ready to have some serious rhythm pattern fun! I made videos of the rhythm patterns. Have fun practicing!