Wrabling Notes 21 October 2014

Chair: Wendy

Attendees: JB, DC, DD, SE, JL, KM, MM, RM, JP, LS, MS, WT
Apologies: JL

Item	Action
2	Blending Exercise Louli led a very useful blending exercise in pairs working together on blending on Reach Out. Later we established it would be useful to use Duan Nollaig as a blending exercise too.	All
3	Preacher Man Duncan took us through several sing-throughs of this which got progressively better but there are still areas we need to work on for next time. Alto ooh introduction is very ropey and needs work – perhaps we could also do some work on this at the next rehearsal, Robin? If the intro isn’t correct it stops the leads from coming in with the correct start note. Timing of entrances need work too – all parts need to observe the rests in bars 25 and 38 and so on. Mark up your scores for practice at home and for the next outing for the song (date to be confirmed). Leads to tighten up timing of certain phrases – find a few minutes at upcoming rehearsal to work these through a few times.	Altos All LS/WT
4	Duan Nollaig With Daniel’s help, sounding better by the end. Still not enough of us know the words. Heads need to be up out of paper next time. Descants please think about singing along with the sopranos on bars 8-24 (where you currently don’t sing). Corrected sheet music for basses up and corrected MP3 on website. Please look/listen. The sheet music is now in colour – download on website.	All Descants Basses All
5	Femme-la Dit Please listen to the YouTube rendition on the website to hear how the song should feel. Keep practising singing along with the slaps/snaps at home if you can. I haven’t given up on some percussive accompaniment! Altos to practise their first entrance – use keyboard at home maybe? Please use the colour sheet music on the website rather than the original.	All Altos All
6	Africa We ran out of time to run through this – put on next agenda as a warm up? Everyone please revise. Matt has put a reminder up of the structure of the song.	Robin All
7	Next Rehearsal Chair is Robin We didn’t set the songs and the schedule on the website doesn’t go as far as 28/10. Sebastian please could you advise Robin what the songs will be so that he can get it on his agenda? A blank template for agenda and minutes is now on the website, in case you want to use them.	Robin Sebastian

Item

Action

Warmup exercise

Robin led a warmup exercise designed to get the vocal chords going and prepare the way for the blending exercise.

Robin

Blending Exercise

Louli led a very useful blending exercise in pairs working together on blending on Reach Out. Later we established it would be useful to use Duan Nollaig as a blending exercise too.

All

Preacher Man

Duncan took us through several sing-throughs of this which got progressively better but there are still areas we need to work on for next time.

Alto ooh introduction is very ropey and needs work – perhaps we could also do some work on this at the next rehearsal, Robin? If the intro isn’t correct it stops the leads from coming in with the correct start note.

Timing of entrances need work too – all parts need to observe the rests in bars 25 and 38 and so on. Mark up your scores for practice at home and for the next outing for the song (date to be confirmed).

Leads to tighten up timing of certain phrases – find a few minutes at upcoming rehearsal to work these through a few times.

Altos

All

LS/WT

Duan Nollaig

With Daniel’s help, sounding better by the end. Still not enough of us know the words. Heads need to be up out of paper next time.

Descants please think about singing along with the sopranos on bars 8-24 (where you currently don’t sing).

Corrected sheet music for basses up and corrected MP3 on website. Please look/listen.

The sheet music is now in colour – download on website.

All

Descants

Basses

All

Femme-la Dit

Please listen to the YouTube rendition on the website to hear how the song should feel. Keep practising singing along with the slaps/snaps at home if you can. I haven’t given up on some percussive accompaniment!

Altos to practise their first entrance – use keyboard at home maybe?

Please use the colour sheet music on the website rather than the original.

All

Altos

All

Africa

We ran out of time to run through this – put on next agenda as a warm up?

Everyone please revise. Matt has put a reminder up of the structure of the song.

Robin

All

Next Rehearsal

Chair is Robin

We didn’t set the songs and the schedule on the website doesn’t go as far as 28/10. Sebastian please could you advise Robin what the songs will be so that he can get it on his agenda?

A blank template for agenda and minutes is now on the website, in case you want to use them.

Robin

Sebastian

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