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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: 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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Ukulele Class: Ukulele crash course
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Updates on our classes and pertinent information for ukulele players. Saturday, January 8, 2011. The January 2011 class is full. I will offer another class in the spring and probably a refresher/practice class for those who already play. Let me know if you would like to be added to my email list to be notified of these and other classes. You can also just check back here for updates. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Carol Raedy (Main Blog).
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Ukulele Class: Ukulele Crash Course in Charlotte
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Updates on our classes and pertinent information for ukulele players. Wednesday, June 20, 2012. Ukulele Crash Course in Charlotte. A new class will be begin this Saturday, June 23rd, 10-NOON and will continue next Saturday at the same time. The cost of $45.00 includes an instruction/song book. You will learn basic chords, strumming patterns and how to transpose any song into a ukulele friendly key. The class is limited to 8 students, so contact me if you are interested. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Ukulele Class: tuning and a youtube link
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Updates on our classes and pertinent information for ukulele players. Sunday, June 27, 2010. Tuning and a youtube link. Here is a link. To a page for tuning your ukulele. Here are some other links:. Http:/ www.doctoruke.com/. Http:/ www.ukulelesongs.com/. Tiptoe Through the Tulips. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Carol Raedy (Main Blog). Tuning and a youtube link.
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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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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.