Welcome to your course page. You are here because you registered and have the password. You can check here for any materials posted prior to the lessons, and to ask questions if something strikes you after the class.

If you have any of the following books you might like to assemble them, but they are not necessary for the class:

 

  • Music From Taize vol I and II
  • Music from Taize I and II instrumental edition
  • Songs and Prayers from Taize
  • Peoples edition - Songs and Prayers from Taize
  • Voices United
  • More Voices
  • Common Praise
  • Taize 2008-2009

class 1  

Introduction to Taize

Review our source material - choir edition, instrument edition, hymn books

Jesus, Remember me

here is a lead sheet to print or read from your device

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Greetings - thank you for a beautiful morning - usually I find myself both hyper and exhausted after a class, but between you all and the music today, I felt very calm and happy - how nice!

I'll post a track to play along with today, but you may find others on the internet that you like - If you do, share the link in the comments so that others can enjoy as well.

Here's a recording of the first class - I do not mean to to do this for each class, but here is one anyway -  Sadly, it was recording from the beginning - you'll need to start at the 29 minute mark to get the really start of the class.

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Hello students - Here is a back up track that you can play or sing along with - if you like, you can record yourself playing along and send it by email - I'd love to hear you!

 

class 3 

Ubi Caritas

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How to deal with chords not in the scale

how to make a lh that works when the chords change so often.

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class recording

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I was doing some recording for St. Philip's church using a pretty amazing app - and it was so much fun, I decided to see how it would work for an instructional video. Obviously I could improve my presentation technique, but I just tried it out and decided to share the results with you.  I clearly made a mistake setting it to 3 minutes, and you can't change that once you have begun  (also tto loud, too much hum, and 4 versions of me talking at once - yikes!

some ways to play Ubi Caritas

 

Here is a worked out version to print, similar to the way I played in the top rh box.  You can see how I got around not having a F# in measure 3 (to have a G major, not minor chord) and leaving out the Bb in the G major chord.

You could also play just the first note of each chord as I have it on the page.  There is a line left for you to write your own part for a verse.

 

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    Taize class 1 - Jesus remember me 6:27
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    da pacem cordium 5:51
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    jubilate, servite 4:05
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    jubilate deo 3:22
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