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Singing Class: January 31st
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Updates on our classes including music files, songsheets and singing exercises. Tuesday, February 1, 2011. Here are a few singing exercises. You can follow the notation for the C scale exercise on the sheet. Ee, eh, ah, oh, oo exercise. C major scale exercise. We sang mostly in the key of C major and D major last night. These two songs are in E flat which is just a little higher (half step) than D. See how you do with these. Sing, Sing, Together". Ah, Poor Bird". June 4, 2011 at 10:23 PM.
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Singing Class: harmony practice
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Updates on our classes including music files, songsheets and singing exercises. Wednesday, June 20, 2012. Listen to You Are My Sunshine. As sung by my sisters and me. It is an example of a song that has one harmony a third (mostly) above the melody and one harmony below. Notice that the harmony below needs to jump more to fill out the chord. This is from a Charlotte Folk Society gathering at least ten years ago, perhaps even longer. We were still meeting in the Bryant Music Building.
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Singing Class: March 2010
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Updates on our classes including music files, songsheets and singing exercises. Tuesday, March 30, 2010. Singing exercise (m s l). Singing exercise (s, l, d r m s l). Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. Saturday, March 6, 2010. Here is a very basis singing exercise to practice the first three notes in a major scale (do, re, mi). It will help to look at the tone ladder. Do, re, mi exercise. So, fa, mi, re, do exercise. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Carol Raedy (Main Blog).
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Singing Class: January 2011
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Updates on our classes including music files, songsheets and singing exercises. Tuesday, January 25, 2011. Making music came before writing and theorizing about it, but as humans we like to organize and classify. The concept of organizing notes into scales and naming notes goes all the way back to the ancient Greeks. Music notation on a staff came much later in the 10th century and started with just a horizontal line (F) as a reference point for the pitches going up or down. Monday, January 17, 2011.
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Singing Class: February 2010
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Updates on our classes including music files, songsheets and singing exercises. Wednesday, February 24, 2010. I changed the recording of. That I meant to do at class this week. You may want to print the tone ladder sheet. As an added visual aid in singing the patterns. The hand signs are totally optional. We haven't been using them. Wednesday, February 17, 2010. Songs from Feb. 15th class. Here are the songs from class this week. I gave you some work to do with. Monday, February 15, 2010. Ah, Poor Bird.
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Singing Class: June 2010
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Updates on our classes including music files, songsheets and singing exercises. Wednesday, June 16, 2010. We will work more with chord progressions next week and how that relates to singing harmony. It is important to have the major scale firmly implanted in your brain. Here is a singing exercise. To practice the C major scale. And also the descending so fa mi re do. Circle Round for Freedom. We'll sing some rounds. Monday, June 7, 2010. Circle Round for Freedom. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Singing Class: more practice - This Land is Your Land
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Updates on our classes including music files, songsheets and singing exercises. Wednesday, June 20, 2012. More practice - This Land is Your Land. Here is another song with harmony parts above and below the melody. Click here. To listen. The melody is sung by students from Saint Patrick Catholic School in Charlotte. I recorded it when I taught music there. The harmony parts are pretty easy to hear because the timbre of my voice is very different than that of the kids singing the melody.
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Recorder Class: January 2010
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Updates on our class including links to music files and songsheets and other pertinent information for recorder players. Sunday, January 31, 2010. We reviewed the songs from lesson 1 using B, A and G. Then after everyone was just getting down the fingerings for those notes we went on to lesson 2 which introduces an alternate fingering for B. I promise that, in the long run, it will make playing easier. We worked on rhythms in 4/4 and 3/4 time. We learned how to do a slur. Ode to Joy page 2.
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Resources: Music of the Universe Songbook
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Songbooks, music files and how-to information. Tuesday, February 16, 2010. Music of the Universe Songbook. 1- Music of the Universe. 2 - Make New Friends. 3 - Places in the World. 4 - Don't Laugh at Me. 5 - Step By Step. 6 - All Mixed Up. Page 1 - listen. 7 - All Mixed Up. 8 - This Land Is Your Land. 9 - Moon Shadow. 10 - Tennessee Stud. 11 - Wish I Was Mole in the Ground. 12 - If I Had a Hammer. 13 - I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing. 14 - I Love the Flowers. 15 - The World is a Rainbow. 19 - Don Gato.
