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Wrablers Rehearsal Notes 04.08.2026

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Wrablers Rehearsal Notes   04.08.26 Chair: JB Attendees: JB, SC, RM, CS, MR, PV Apols: RS, WT, LS, PS, MX So, we were 6. Robin warmed us up with one of his inimitable creations. Warm up song – Route 66 – Sang through a couple of times. Delicious harmonies getting tighter. Altos found it easier to hear where we were going wrong without the Sopranos there to distract us! Useful session. White Winter Hymnal – Sounding good. Timings and repeats all sorted now. Colin representing the basses was resolute about staying in the lower register, [sounding like wolves in the Continue reading Wrablers Rehearsal Notes 04.08.2026→

Wrablers Minutes 21.07.2026

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Minutes: Rehearsal – 21 Jul 2026 Chair: PS Attendees: JB, SC, MR, CS, PS, WT, PV Apologies: RM, MM, LS, RS Havana Sounding good. MR to think about taking on the trumpet part White Winter Hymnal NB: notes for the web page: In the final bar: Basses to sing “summer time” (in unison rhythm, on D) Dance! Practised Body Percussion for Groups 1 and 2 No decision yet on allocation of people to Groups 1, 2, 3 Melody was fairly good, but work needed on the off-beats. Tourdion Everyone must use the sheet music labelled “TOURDION FULL SCORE FINAL SHEET Continue reading Wrablers Minutes 21.07.2026→

Rehearsal Notes 7 July 2026 – AOB proposed change to main gig pattern

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Rehearsal 7 July – Marcus chair Dance! Gonna be a nice challenge, but glimmers of possibility. Thanks to Josh and Alex for getting us started on body percussion. Java Jive Ok I think, some finessing expected from Rob in due course. Havana Ok I think. Route 66 Homework needed on women-men call-reponse sections. Tourdion Introduction repeated *7* times in total, with staggered entry bottom up, sops joining for the last 2. Verses, pipe up when you have words, down when you don’t. AOB Proposed to move gigs to spring and autumn to avoid summer heat and competition from holidays / Continue reading Rehearsal Notes 7 July 2026 – AOB proposed change to main gig pattern→

Song Sponsor job description

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Rob has taken on the job of allocating parts in songs (since Dec 2025), as well as directing us, so the main responsibility of Song Sponsors is to keep their Song’s page up to date. The Song page should contain: 1. Parts allocation – kept up to date 2. The score or scores as pdf. Where there are more than one, a note about which one to use, if it matters. 3. MP3s of all the parts, and any additional MP3s if needed. 2. Note of any errors in existing music or lyrics. 3. Note if the song has been Continue reading Song Sponsor job description→

Rehearsal Notes 2 June 2026

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Rehearsal Notes 2 June 2026 We did walk through the staging of the first 5 songs. It was the first time so of course we will get slicker. We didn’t sing the first 5 songs in gig mode – instead we worked on them as we went along. We are starting to get scratchy and irritable in the run-up to the gig. Peter made the observation that at this point we shouldn’t be expecting perfection, but striving to do our best, which is plenty good enough for a performance. We can finesse things, but let’s not get lost in the Continue reading Rehearsal Notes 2 June 2026→