Program June9, 2022

GCC PROGRAM

Thursday, June 9

6:45 Riser Set Up

7:00  Welcome “The Old Songs”

7:05 Warm Up with Carolyne

7:20 Learn A Tag with Robin

7:40  Repertoire Review – dueting on the risers

* Come Go With Me – All parts review Bar 33-38, Bar 56 take out “woh” chord

* Sh-Boom – we are no longer starting at the Interlude – start is at Bar 1. Ending 2 Fine – Ritard to the end

* Breaking Up Is Hard to Do – Tag sing at tempo we will not be slowing down at Bar 91

* All I Have to Do Is Dream

* King of the Road – Intro Basses snap on back beat, other 3 part start back beat snap on Bar 9

* Swing Down Chariot

* Seven Bridges – duet section practice Bars 37 to 51

Cookies, Business and Social Break

Quartet Tag

9:25 Irish Blessing

9:30  Riser take down, sweep and cleanup

Program May12, 2022

 

May 12, 2022 Program

By:  Carolyne Oehlerking

 

6:30     Uniform Check with Kel

6:45     Riser Set Up

7:00     Welcome – The Old Songs

7:05     Warm-up – physical, breathing, vocalizing with Carolyne and Sheryl

7:20     Coaching “Together Again” Songs with Sheryl Brook

  • It’s A Good Day
  • You’ve Got A Friend In Me

9:00     Business, Cookie and Social Break – May Birthdays

9:15     New Song – Seven Bridges Road

  • Review Bars 53-70

Music review reminders and music:

It’s A Good Day: Pitch on a Unison “Ah”  “A good day” in the intro.  Bar 65 take an expression breath after the word deep (no breath after “breath” – no rest or breath in Bar 66)  Words have been changed in bar 67 “climb the highest hills”

** correct words       Bar 31 for losin’ “the” blues            Bar 41 said to “the” sun

All parts check notes:  Bar 4 “day”  Bar 43 “morn – in”

Leads check notes (Tenor has the melody here):  Bar 48 to 55

Finish words as you lift the phrase ends … “night” – we need to hear the “t”

Tell the story with authenticity – sell the song – MOVE freely

 

You’ve Got A Friend In Me: Pitch Eb “OOO” Pitch Up Basses, Bari’s and then Lead and Tenor on First Chord.  Bar 29 Harmony parts – trumpet “wah wah wah” – we need to make MORE out of this to make it effective.

All Parts please check and review notes in following chords:

            Bar 13 “son”      Bar 15 – the 2nd  “doo” (4 parts)      Bar 36 – “way I do”    Bar 43 – “ny”

            Non melody parts support with solid sound but at a lower dynamic when another part is “            “featured”

Tell the story with authenticity – sell the song – MOVE freely

Bar 23 – Bari’s Ab sing on top of the note

Bar 29 – “our” owooer

 

Seven Bridges Road – sing all chords cleanly with out dropping at phrase endings where indicated by          (for now)

Review learning tracks for notes and rhythm.

Bar 37 to 52 – review – our most challenging part for sure – turn up the treble or the bass on your listening device to enhance your part on the recording

9:25   Irish Blessing

9:30    Riser take down, sweep and cleanup

Program May5_22

 

May 5, 2022 Program

By:  Carolyne Oehlerking

 

6:30     Uniform Check with Kel

6:45     Riser Set Up

7:00     Welcome – The Old Songs

7:05     Warm-up – physical, breathing, vocalizing with Carolyne

7:20     Work “Together Again” Songs

  • It’s A Good Day
  • You’ve Got A Friend In Me

8:30     Business, Cookie and Social Break 

8:45     New Song – Seven Bridges Road

  • Review Intro and work Bar 1 to Bar 37 – New Review Bars 38-52

9:10     Rep Review:  Swing Down Chariot, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

 

Music review reminders and music:

It’s A Good Day: Pitch on a Unison “Ah”  and  Octave Unison on “A good day” in the intro.  Bar 65 take an expression breath after the word deep (no breath after “breath” – no rest or breath in Bar 66)  Words have been changed in bar 67 “climb the highest hills”

** correct words       Bar 31 for losin’ “the” blues            Bar 41 said to “the” sun

All parts check notes:  Bar 4 “day”  Bar 43 “morn – in”

Leads check notes (Tenor has the melody here):  Bar 48 to 55

Finish words as you lift the phrase ends.

Tell the story with authenticity – sell the song – MOVE freely

 

You’ve Got A Friend In Me: Pitch Eb “OOO” Pitch Up Basses, Bari’s and then Lead and Tenor on First Chord.  Bar 29 Harmony parts – trumpet “wah wah wah” – we need to make MORE out of this to make it effective.

All Parts please check and review notes in following chords:

            Bar 13 “son”      Bar 15 – the 2nd  “doo” (4 parts)      Bar 36 – “way I do”    Bar 43 – “ny”

            Non melody parts support with solid sound but at a lower dynamic when another part is “            “featured”

Tell the story with authenticity – sell the song – MOVE freely

Seven Bridges Road – sing all chords cleanly with out dropping at phrase endings where indicated by          (for now)  Review learning tracks for notes and rhythm.

9:20   Quartet Tag – Mass Chorus Song – Side by Side or Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

9:25   Irish Blessing

9:30    Riser take down, mopping and cleanup

Program April 28, 2022

 

April 28, 2022 Program

By:  Carolyne Oehlerking

6:45     Riser Set Up

7:00     Welcome – The Old Songs

7:05     Warm-up – physical, breathing, vocalizing with Carolyne

7:20     Work “Together Again” Songs

  • It’s A Good Day
  • You’ve Got A Friend In Me

8:15     Always (duet page 3)

8:30     Business, Cookie and Social Break

8:45     New Song – Seven Bridges Road

  • Review Intro and work Bar 21 to “wild” Bar 37

9:05     Rep Review:  King of the Road, In My Room, Swing Down Chariot

Music review reminders and music:

Always: Intro start Waltz style tempo a little quicker than previously taken but we will take some  liberties with adlibbing.  Bar 9 line up the word and chord on “each” as well as the word and chord on “day”.  Check notes Bar 45 “That’s”.  Tenors, Basses and Bari’s take a breath Bar 55 before “yes always” and all breath end of bar 56 before key change.  Check notes “all of Page 3”.  Bar 68 Leads sing day/Harmony parts sing “not a day” – “not” needs to line up with “day”.

It’s A Good Day: Pitch on a Unison “Ah”  and  Octave Unison on “A good day” in the intro.  Bar 65 take an expression breath after the word deep (no breath after “breath” – no rest or breath in Bar 66)  Words have been changed in bar 67 “climb the highest hills”

** correct words       Bar 31 for losin’ “the” blues            Bar 41 said to “the” sun

You’ve Got A Friend In Me: Pitch Eb “OOO” Pitch Up Basses, Bari’s and then Lead and Tenor on First Chord.  Bar 29 Harmony parts – trumpet “wah wah wah” – we need to make MORE out of this to make it effective.

All Parts please check and review notes in following chords:

            Bar 13 “son”      Bar 15 – the 2nd  “doo” (4 parts)      Bar 36 – “way I do”    Bar 43 – “ny”

Seven Bridges Road – sing all chords cleanly with out dropping at phrase endings where indicated by          (for now)

9:15   Quartet Tag – Polecat Songs – Old Mill Stream or Down Our Way

9:25   Irish Blessing

9:30    Riser take down, mopping and cleanup

Program April 21, 2022

 

April 21, 2022 Program

By:  Carolyne Oehlerking

6:45     Riser Set Up

7:00     Welcome – The Old Songs

7:05     Warm-up – stretching, breathing, vocalizing with Carolyne

7:20     Review and Work Potential Contest Songs

  • It’s A Good Day
  • Always (duet page 3)
  • You’ve Got A Friend In Me

8:30     Business, Cookie and Social Break

8:45     New Song – Seven Bridges Road

  • Review and work Intro to Bar 21

9:00     Rep Review:  Breaking Up is Hard To Do, In My Room, Swing Down Chariot

 

Music review reminders and music:

Always:  Breath marks are attached.  Please note I have removed the breath after year in bar 54.  Intro start Waltz style tempo a little quicker than previously taken but we will take some  liberties with adlibbing.  Bar 9 line up the word and chord on “each” as well as the word and chord on “day”.  Check notes Bar 45 “That’s”.  Tenors, Leads Bari’s take a breath Bar 55 before “yes always” and all breath end of bar 56 before key change.  Check notes “all of Page 3”.  Bar 68 Leads sing day/Harmony parts sing “not a day” – “not” needs to line up with “day”.

 

It’s A Good Day Please review learning tracks for notes and words – Bar 65 take an expression breath after the word deep (no breath after “breath” – no rest or breath in Bar 66)  Words have been changed in bar 67 “climb the highest hills”

** correct words       Bar 31 for losin’ “the” blues  and  Bar 41 said to “the” sun

 

            You’ve Got A Friend In Me – Pitch Eb “OOO” on First Chord.  Bar 29 Harmony parts –             trumpet “wah wah wah”

9:15   Quartet Tag – Song or Polecat Song of choice

9:25   Keep the Whole World Singing (Oh Yeah Tag), Irish Blessing

9:30    Riser take down, mopping and cleanup

Program April14, 2022

 

April 14, 2022 Program

By:  Carolyne Oehlerking

6:50     Riser Set Up

7:00     Welcome – The Old Songs

7:05     Warm-up – stretching, breathing, vocalizing with Carolyne

7:25     Learn a Tag with Robin

7:35     Review and Work Potential Contest Songs 

  • Always
  • It’s A Good Day
  • You’ve Got A Friend In Me
    • Section Rehearsal to review notes and words (20 minutes)

8:35     Business, Cookie and Social Break

8:50     Rep Review:  Breaking Up is Hard To Do, In My Room, Swing Down Chariot

Music review reminders and music:

Always:  Breath marks are attached.  Please note I have removed the breath after year in bar 54.  Intro start Waltz style tempo a little quicker than previously taken but we will take some  liberties with adlibbing.

It’s A Good Day Please review learning tracks for notes and words – Bar 65 take an expression breath after the word deep (no breath after “breath” – no rest or breath in Bar 66)  Words have been changed in bar 67 “climb the highest hills”

9:10   Quartet Tag – Song of choice / or Robin’s Tag

9:25   Keep the Whole World Singing (Oh Yeah Tag), Irish Blessing

9:30    Riser take down, mopping and cleanup

Program April 7, 2022

 

April 7, 2022 Program

By:  Carolyne Oehlerking

7:00     Riser Set Up

7:10     Welcome – The Old Songs

7:15     Warm-up – stretching, breathing, vocalizing with Carolyne

7:35     Learn a Tag – “Clouds on Fire” with Robin

7:45     Review and Work Potential Contest Songs

  • Always
  • You’ve Got A Friend In Me
  • It’s A Good Day
    • Section Rehearsal to review notes and words
    • Work Pitch to starting notes (new unison notes in intro)

8:45     Business, Cookie and Social Break

9:00     Rep Review:  Come Go With Me, Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Sh-Boom

  • (Same as last week as we did not get to review them)

Music review reminders and music:

Always:  There are two different arrangement copies within the chorus.  Same arranger BUT for some copies in bar 59 the lyric is “a-l-ways” and the other copy by 60 is “Please re-mem-ber” – so for whichever copy you have we will be singing “ah-al-ways” each syllable represented by a quarter note.  Breath marks are attached.  Waltz style tempo a little quicker than previously taken but we will take some  liberties with adlibbing.

It’s A Good Day – Key of G –  All parts sing unison an octave apart on the D, E and G  (tenor/lead upper octave and baritone bass lower octave) “A good” then split into parts.

Please review learning tracks for notes and words – Bar 65 take an expression breath after the word deep (no breath after “breath” – no rest or breath in Bar 66)

You’ve Got A Friend in Me – Pitch Up on “OOO” first chord.  Bar 29 Tenor, Lead, Bari – wah wah wah – muted trumpet sound and then immediately back to good vocal quality at Bar 30

9:10   Quartet Tag – A doo whop song of choice / or Robin’s Tag

9:25   Keep the Whole World Singing (Oh Yeah Tag), Irish Blessing

9:30    Riser take down, mopping and cleanup

Program March 31,2022

 

March 31, 2022 Program

By Robin Saumer and Carolyne Oehlerking

7:00     Riser Set Up

7:10     Welcome – The Old Songs

7:15     Warm-up – stretching, breathing, vocalizing with Carolyne

7:30     Learn a Tag – “Clouds on Fire” with Robin

7:45     Review and Work Potential Contest Songs

  • You’ve Got A Friend In Me
  • It’s A Good Day
  • Always
    • Section Rehearsal (30 minutes) – review notes and words for accuracy

8:45     Business, Cookie and Social Break

8:55     Rep Review:  Come Go With Me, Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Sh-Boom

 Music review reminders and music:

  Always:  There are two different arrangement copies within the chorus.  Same arranger BUT for some copies in bar 59 the lyric is “a-l-ways” and the other copy by 60 is “Please re-mem-ber” – so for whichever copy you have we will be singing “a-l-ways” each syllable represented by a quarter note.  Breath marks will be given at rehearsal.

Tag:  We will be exploring the ending – leads please be prepared to continue to hold the Ab to the end and we will also be trying the leads repeat of “al-ways” with the other 3 parts.

Please review notes and words for section rehearsal.

  It’s A Good Day – All parts sing unison octave apart (tenor/lead upper octave and baritone bass lower octave) “A good” then split into parts.

Please review learning tracks for notes and words – Bar 65 take an expression breath after the word deep (no breath after “breath” – no rest or breath in Bar 66)

  You’ve Got A Friend in Me – Bar 29 Tenor, Lead, Bari – wah wah wah – muted trumpet sound and then immediately back to good vocal quality at Bar 30

  Irish Blessing – Pitch in F.  Please review notes in each part

9:10   Quartet Tag – Irish Blessing / or Robin’s Tag

9:25   Keep the Whole World Singing (Oh Yeah Tag)

9:30    Riser take down, mopping and cleanup

Program March 10, 2022

 

March 10, 2022 Program

  • By Robin Saumer and Carolyne Oehlerking

7:10   Welcome – The Old Songs

7:15   Warm-up – stretching, breathing, vocalizing with Carolyne

7:30     Learn a Tag with Robin

7:45     Part Dueting

  • Can You Feel The Love Tonight
  • Sh Boom
  • Hello Mary Lou
  • It’s A Good Day

8:30   Business and water break

8:35   Rep review:

  • O Canada with French words (see below), I Believe In Music, Yesterday, Sentimental Journey.

O Canada – Bar 7 word changes “in all of us command”.  Bar 8 to Bar 16 in French as an alternative when appropriate in performance.

“Car ton bras sait porter l’épée, Il sait porter la croix! Ton histoire est une épopée Des plus brillants exploits.”

Music review reminders and music;

It’s A Good Day – please review learning tracks for notes and words – Bar 65 take an expression breath after the word deep (no breath after breath – no rest or breath in Bar 66)

Always – considering for contest – please review notes and words for March 17 rehearsal sectionals.

Please note songs we will be removing from our repertoire at this time:

The Banana Boat Song, I Don’t Know Why, When I Grow to Old to Sing, Side By Side, Ten Feet Off The Ground

9:00   Happy March Birthdays and Cookie Break (Cookies TBD – Willie is checking)

9:10   Quartet Tag – You’ve Got A Friend In Me

9:25   Keep the Whole World Singing (Oh Yeah Tag) and Irish Blessing

9:30   Mopping and cleanup

 

Program March 3, 2022

 

March 3, 2022 Program

  • By Robin Saumer and Carolyne Oehlerking

7:10   Welcome – The Old Songs

7:15   Warm-up – stretching, breathing, vocalizing

7:30

  • You’ve Got A Friend In Me
  • King of The Road
  • In My Room
  • Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
  • Come Go With Me
  • Can You Feel The Love Tonight

8:30   Business and water break You’re as Welcome

8:35   Rep review:

  • Always, All I Have To Do Is Dream, Happy Birthday, I Believe In Music

Last week review reminders:

  • The Old Songs – move the song along at a quicker tempo.  Bar 3 – hold out “minor chords” and move through “and good close har” mo  ny
  • Hello Mary Lou – More lyrical connected verses.  We will explore some variations in the phrasing in the future.
  • O Canada – Bar 7 word changes “in all of us command”.  Bar 8 to Bar 16 in French as an alternative when appropriate in performance.

“Car ton bras sait porter l’épée, Il sait porter la croix! Ton histoire est une épopée Des plus brillants exploits.”

Please note songs we will be removing from our repertoire at this time:

The Banana Boat Song, I Don’t Know Why, When I Grow to Old to Sing, Side By Side, Ten Feet Off The Ground

9:00   Break

9:05   Quartet Tag – King of the Road 

9:25   Keep the Whole World Singing (Oh Yeah Tag)

 Irish Blessing

9:30   Mopping and cleanup