Jeanne Posted July 1, 2016 Posted July 1, 2016 2 hours ago, JLHPROF said: We already did that. We virtually never sing every verse if there are more than 3 or 4 any more. Works for most, but some songs suffer when we don't sing the entire song (A Poor Wayfairing Man for instance or How Firm A Foundation). At least, that's my opinion. As a chorister in SS years ago..I would always try and use those verses to practice on. I wasn't surprised to find some real poetry there. Practice songs though..do they still do that? In a way...that was a pain..nobody really cared about that and it was hard to make that an interesting time.
Storm Rider Posted July 1, 2016 Posted July 1, 2016 44 minutes ago, Jeanne said: As a chorister in SS years ago..I would always try and use those verses to practice on. I wasn't surprised to find some real poetry there. Practice songs though..do they still do that? In a way...that was a pain..nobody really cared about that and it was hard to make that an interesting time. No, practice hymns went away when they consolidated the meetings. We could sure use that practice to return to our Sunday worship. I always enjoyed learning new hymns; now they are just thrown at us and few people sing the hymns we do not know very well.
Jeanne Posted July 1, 2016 Posted July 1, 2016 4 minutes ago, Storm Rider said: No, practice hymns went away when they consolidated the meetings. We could sure use that practice to return to our Sunday worship. I always enjoyed learning new hymns; now they are just thrown at us and few people sing the hymns we do not know very well. Thanks for the info. I used to try to get the congregation's enthusiasm going. I am surprised that they did a way with this.
Tacenda Posted July 1, 2016 Posted July 1, 2016 2 hours ago, Pa Pa said: "Conditioning"...sounds like you think you have been brainwashed. It is a worship service, not a cult designed to promote faith, not to destroy it. It is my Faith and Church and it is painful to see it trying to be undermined by others. It may not be for all, but it is for me. I meant the tempo! Geez guys!
Rain Posted July 1, 2016 Posted July 1, 2016 On Monday, June 27, 2016 at 2:09 PM, hope_for_things said: So we had both, we had an alternative SS class with a different subject matter, and we always had 2 gospel doctrine classes as well. Those two GD classes would teach the same lesson, just in different rooms and people would gravitate to the teacher that they liked better. Actually for a while we had alternating teachers as well, so 2 teachers for each GD class, they would alternate teaching every other week. I didn't like that as much, so 4 GD teachers in the ward was too many in my opinion. But I did like having the two different GD classes, it made for smaller classes where the members were more willing to participate instead of one really large class with the same people commenting each week. I think it worked much better from my perspective. My last ward was like that. Did your GD teachers vary on which room they went to as well - one week teacher A might be in room A and 2 weeks later might be in room B?
Tacenda Posted July 1, 2016 Posted July 1, 2016 (edited) 3 hours ago, JLHPROF said: We already did that. We virtually never sing every verse if there are more than 3 or 4 any more. Works for most, but some songs suffer when we don't sing the entire song (A Poor Wayfairing Man for instance or How Firm A Foundation). At least, that's my opinion. Like I told Pa Pa, I meant the tempo on some songs. I'm a secret wanna be choir member, always wanted to do this, but haven't got the guts. Edited July 2, 2016 by Tacenda
Tacenda Posted July 1, 2016 Posted July 1, 2016 (edited) 40 minutes ago, Jeanne said: Thanks for the info. I used to try to get the congregation's enthusiasm going. I am surprised that they did a way with this. Since you were a chorister do you think that some hymns go too slow? I wouldn't know anything about it, and don't know if the church has set the tone for how hymns should be sung, did they tell you or the pianist it must be played a certain way? Edited July 2, 2016 by Tacenda
Calm Posted July 2, 2016 Posted July 2, 2016 It is more of choristers and organists who don't get enough time to practice together so as to feel confident to keep the tempo up or variable from the usual, from whatcI have heard from both. We do pretty good in our ward because both have beeb doing it for a decade or so. 1
hope_for_things Posted July 2, 2016 Posted July 2, 2016 22 minutes ago, Rain said: My last ward was like that. Did your GD teachers vary on which room they went to as well - one week teacher A might be in room A and 2 weeks later might be in room B? No room variations, they kept the same one each week. Did you like having the two classes.
Jeanne Posted July 2, 2016 Posted July 2, 2016 1 hour ago, Tacenda said: Since you were a chorister do you think that some hymns go too slow? I wouldn't know anything about it, and don't know if the church has set the tone for how hymns should be sung, did they tell you or the pianist it must be played a certain way? I was free to do what I want. There were suggested songs that I had to learn myself and usually had to as the pianist to kind of pick it up..Of course, I wanted her to play the melody a lone first without the words so that the congregation could hear it through a couple of times. Then we would all try and do it together. To fill up some time and add a little competition, I would have the men sing a verse alone and then the women did it alone. Once in a while we had some pretty new harmony seep in. But nobody told me really how fast or slow or anything. I tried to do the tempo on the music itself. Sometimes it depends on how familiar the pianist is with the song.
Guest Posted July 2, 2016 Posted July 2, 2016 1 hour ago, Tacenda said: I meant the tempo! Geez guys! Forgive me, but I can only work with the words typed...not my intent to be rude.
Jeanne Posted July 2, 2016 Posted July 2, 2016 54 minutes ago, Calm said: It is more of choristers and organists who don't get enough time to practice together so as to feel confident to keep the tempo up or variable from the usual, from whatcI have heard from both. We do pretty good in our ward because both have beeb doing it for a decade or so. 1 hour ago, Tacenda said: Since you were a chorister do you think that some hymns go too slow? I wouldn't know anything about it, and don't know if the church has set the tone for how hymns should be sung, did they tell you or the pianist it must be played a certain way? I was free to do what I want. There were suggested songs that I had to learn myself and usually had to as the pianist to kind of pick it up..Of course, I wanted her to play the melody a lone first without the words so that the congregation could hear it through a couple of times. Then we would all try and do it together. To fill up some time and add a little competition, I would have the men sing a verse alone and then the women did it alone. Once in a while we had some pretty new harmony seep in. But nobody told me really how fast or slow or anything. I tried to do the tempo on the music itself. Sometimes it depends on how familiar the pianist is with the song. Calm..you are right about the practicing together part. Both of us had pianos at home and went through the songs on our own..but we didn't get together until an hour before SS. 1
Rain Posted July 2, 2016 Posted July 2, 2016 46 minutes ago, hope_for_things said: No room variations, they kept the same one each week. Did you like having the two classes. I did. I found that most people such to rooms rather than teachers. Some wanted the soft chairs in RS. Some didn't care, but like most do with sacrament pews found a room they liked and stuck there. There was just a couple of us that switched in and it, but I switch pews every week.
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