Hearts 4 Him -- When the Mountains Sing Your Praise

Week 1 -- Capture

Every field and every mountain -- Keith: Are you satisfied with the intonation?
Lawrence: Work more on "one voice" during unison sections. Better blend could be achieved.
JB: A one-voice sound is achieved more easily with less vibrato.
JoAnn: Measure 21 at 1:14 not sure the baritones are hitting the E. But that's very minor.
Bernie: When we hold longer notes, if we don't do something with the note, we go flat.
Bernie: Higher notes tend to be approached from below instead of being hit on pitch.

JoAnn says: Introduction - I NEED TO COUNT - I'll change that on my own. No need to take the group's time with that.
Lawrence: Need to have consistent consonant cutoffs. Problem areas at 1:25, 1:53, 2:42, 2:48. Any time there is an "s" or "t".
JoAnn: Triplets throughout when the group has them. I've noticed on other songs also that we tend to sing them as 2 sixteenths and 1 eight. I don't really think that's really worth changing here. It would take months of working on it several minutes a week to change that and I don't really think it's worth it. I don't feel it would enhance the song enough to merit that work. If we have triplets in a new song I would be willing to help the group with a technique that I used in piano that was pretty successful.

Yoder: At times we pronounce "Your" as YORE and at times as YER. Need to decide which and be consistent.

JoAnn: Measure 33 at 1:50 need to come in a strong f.
When the heavens sing your praise -- Which part has the melody? Is it 1st tenor and it's quieter because Bernie is absent?
JoAnn: Dynamics. This song doesn't do much for changes other then start soft and build throughout. We could work on starting soft, which we pretty much do. Then stay that same soft until m. 33. Looking at the lyrics measure 45 talks about the heavens shouting. To amplify that we could drop down dynamically at measure 41 and pick up to measure 45 suddenly go back to the forte. I do feel like we do a good job of dropping back pick up to measure 49 and building that to the end. Wouldn't change that.
Bernie: We need to be quieter on the quiet parts with intensity.

To contribute additional notes, please contact Keith with the start and stop times in seconds in the full recording and what your comments are.