Other than being pretty sleepy right now (I know - "Get to bed - you don't want the bug that's going around!", I'm pretty up, which is strange, considering I sang a funeral and went to calling hours for a friend today. I've never been to two seperate wakes/funerals in one day before. The family from the first one was very grateful that I was able to come sing on short notice - nothing terribly complicated. Just the Schubert Ave Maria, 4 verses of Amazing Grace (I still had to use the hymn book - I'm always concerned that I'm going to sing the wrong ones!), and the Malotte Lord's Prayer. I forgot about the few bars of accidentals in that last one. It's been a while since I've sung it, and I had no accompaniment source. I never thought I'd be grateful for the ear training classes, but they've turned out to be among the more important classes I've ever taken. Even though they were among the bigger pains in the butt.
But that's life.
Oh - my link of the day, speaking of ear training:
http://musictheory.net/
It's a site that contains online and downloadable trainers so one can keep up with (or learn) music theory skills. I like it, even though I prefer acoustical instruments to digital sounds. But, hey, it's free! I like being able to pick and choose the scales/modes (yes - the basic church modes are on this) or chords, so you can compare and contrast specific things rather than waiting for the computer to randomly generate scales, hoping it comes up with the ones you need to practice.
Muzie.Live Demo Tomorrow!
4 days ago

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