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1/12/2022 8 Comments 32. Seed Song
Notes: A song with two voices, in a way -- the cry of the heart which feels swallowed by darkness and lost, and the response or presence of a wisdom -- an angel, or ancestor, or Yoda?! -- who sees the seed inside the darkness that holds the dream of green during the waiting time. I love the way this song lets me give voice to different experiences. Barbara has given us an extremely satisfying lift on the "call to the sky" line... and a lovely low rumble for "cannot remember", and "to the night." In western classical baroque times, that was called word painting... a wonderful way of yoking different parts of our brains into a whole, connected intent.
Songwriter Info: Barbara McAfee is a master voice coach, singer/songwriter, song leader, and river walker who lives an hour outside of Minneapolis/St. Paul in St Croix Falls, Wisconsin. Links: Barbara's website is at www.barbaramcafee.com Barbara's Tedx talk on the Full Voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze763kgrWGg Song Learning Time Stamps: Start time of teaching: 00:02:16 Start time of reprise: 00:13:34​ Nuts & Bolts: 4:4, minor, 3 layers, 2 with the same words. ​ Join the A Breath of Song mailing list to receive a heads up as a new episode is released, plus a large version of the artwork, brief thoughts from my slightly peculiar brain... and occasional extras when they seem vitally important! No junk -- I will never sell your address. I read out all your names into my living room when I send new mailings... I appreciate the connection to you who are listening and singing these songs with me. Exchange energy with A Breath of Song with dollars at the Gratitude Jar (whoo-hoo!!!!), or by making comments, leaving reviews, suggesting songs or songwriters (including yourself) ..... your participation matters!
8 Comments
Resa
1/12/2022 12:26:59 pm
OMG Patricia I am new to your podcasts but love Juneberry and Pocket Songs. The Seed Song is just what I needed today, to acknowledge the depression, and it helped me lift out of it. Several years ago I completed training as a therapeutic musician but have not been able to be with patients since COVID. That feeling of helplessness is just as sad, because I believe music can heal the world. Thank you for reminding me that I can use music to heal myself as well!
Patricia Norton
1/12/2022 05:01:34 pm
Resa, I'm so glad you're using music to heal yourself... and I'm sure there will come a time when you're bringing it back into the community as a therapeutic musician.... I just love the sound of those two words together!!! I'm so glad Seed Song was right for today, and thank you for writing to say...
Wendy Luella Perkins
1/12/2022 09:29:38 pm
Love this beautiful song, your gentle singing of it, your vulnerable sharing. So grateful for you Patricia, for a Breath of Song, for Barbara McAfee.
Patricia Norton
1/12/2022 10:03:39 pm
That's absolutely lovely to read, Wendy Luella... thank you. I love the way singing can gently encourage us to feel what's really going on inside...
Herb h
1/17/2022 07:42:05 pm
Such a sad song
Patricia Norton
1/17/2022 09:24:18 pm
Ah, Herb... yes. It is sad in some ways. The fear of the darkness and the sense of losing one's soul... yet there's also the awareness of a seed of green at the same time, and that voice has a rising, lifting line -- so there is happiness, too. Complex, like life, right?
Stephanie Carney
1/18/2022 12:18:52 pm
I love this one and do not really feel it's sadness, just a subtle reality which is then uplifted by the second verse. Just wish I had the range to sing the higher notes of the second verse, but even singing the first, I can hear and feel that second verse along with its seed gathering in the darkness. Thank you.
Patricia Norton
1/18/2022 03:00:36 pm
Thank you so much for writing, Stephanie! I'm so glad you love this song -- it is endlessly fascinating to me how songs land different ways for different people -- and even simply on different days. The humming sliding sighs we do when warming up may help your voice gently discover those higher notes? And I love the way you hear and feel the higher notes even as you sing the lower ones. That's brilliant! Leave a Reply. |
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