This week we spent much time going over some tricky harmonies and timing on some of our songs. We reviewed “Ku-Ku”, “Pie Jesu”, “April Showers” and “I Feel a Song Comin’ On” as well as “Loch Lomond”.
Correction: Last week regarding “Loch Lomond”… I said to drop the 'g' on sleep-ing and com-ing and gloam-ing. Linda has decided that she wants us to sing as written on sleeping and coming and to drop the 'g' only on gloam-ing. We also learned that ‘gae’ is pronounced gee (long e) and ‘take’ is pronounced tyke. Just sing the way we might hear the true Scottish sing.
On “April Showers” there is a potential problem twice near the end of the song where the altos I & II sing the word a-long . The tendency is to sing the ’ng’ too soon making a not so pretty sound. As we have 3 notes to cover in the word ‘-long’, it might be better to sing ‘la-ah-ah’ and only at the very end add the ‘ng’ , or just forget the ‘ng’ altogether. Also, as this is a barbershop harmony, we should not sing with a vibrato especially at the very end of this song.
This brings our repertoire to 11 songs, the first 7 they would like us to have memorized:
“I Feel a Song Comin’ On”
“Home of My Heart”
“Ku-Ku”
“Loch Lomond”
“Ha Shalom”
“April Showers”
“Embraceable You”
“There Is Sunshine in My Soul Today”
“Abide With Me; ‘ Tis Eventide”
“Pie Jesu”
“A Psalm of Life”
Have fun memorizing. And thanks to Milana for making practice CD’s available for $5.
See you next week.
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