{"id":14448,"date":"2018-07-23T17:23:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T21:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elisewitt.com\/web\/?p=14448"},"modified":"2018-07-23T17:23:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T21:23:40","slug":"mystery-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elisewitt.com\/web\/mystery-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>from the teaching of Rhiannon<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.RhiannonMusic.com\"><em>http:\/\/www.RhiannonMusic.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>MYSTERY BAND<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One person thinks of a Song that they know very well. They say, &#8220;I have one!&#8221; They don&#8217;t reveal their song, and then they wait quietly.<\/p>\n<p>The group creates an improvised band either &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Going around the circle creating a Motor, Interlocking Part, Counter Melody, Percussion, Bass, etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>OR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Creating an Instaband &#8211; One person begins a bass line. The group jumps in complementing the bass line, and adjusting parts until it feels like a cohesive band.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>THEN<\/p>\n<p>The Song Person sings their song over the music the group has created, trying to stay as close to the original song as possible, while also enjoying the challenge of a new accompaniment that might be radically different in tonality, rhythm, and\/or feel.<\/p>\n<p>There is also the option of calling out &#8220;Go to the Bridge!&#8221; which allows the group to shift the accompaniment, and the soloist to go to a different part of the song eg. Bridge or Chorus.<\/p>\n<p>The soloist can conduct the group ending.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The song does not need to be complicated or have a million changes. It is super satisfying to do this over a lullaby, nursery rhyme, or children&#8217;s song, and you&#8217;ll be surprised how much possibility there is in the simplest song!<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>This is a wonderful way to get a new take on a song you know really well and have sung a lot.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the teaching of Rhiannon http:\/\/www.RhiannonMusic.com MYSTERY BAND One person thinks of a Song that they know very well. They say, &#8220;I have one!&#8221; They don&#8217;t reveal their song, and &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/elisewitt.com\/web\/mystery-band\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about  Mystery Band<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-workshop-songs","entry"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"square-entry-image":false,"vertical-entry-image":false,"horizontal-entry-image":false,"mailpoet_newsletter_max":false,"woocommerce_thumbnail":false,"woocommerce_single":false,"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Elise Witt","author_link":"https:\/\/elisewitt.com\/web\/author\/singsong\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"from the teaching of Rhiannon http:\/\/www.RhiannonMusic.com MYSTERY BAND One person thinks of a Song that they know very well. They say, &#8220;I have one!&#8221; They don&#8217;t reveal their song, and ... Read More about Mystery Band","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elisewitt.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elisewitt.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elisewitt.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elisewitt.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elisewitt.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elisewitt.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elisewitt.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elisewitt.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elisewitt.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}