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    118. Listen In

    4:4 Be Present Boundaries Breathe Change Empower Flow Friendship Gather Grow Heal Hope Justice Listen Motion Ribbon Scale: Ionian (Major) Song Form: Layer Trust
    Song: Listen In
    Music: Jennie Pearl
    Lyrics:

    Listen in

    ​Here I am
    this is my center
    What is mine, What is mine?

    We're learning how to reach for each other
    may we reach
    may we teach

    Through the blurred lines,
    The pain and confusion,
    may we reach
    may we teach
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    Notes: Trying something different here -- lots of space for you to experiment. Jennie Pearl's song was a technique to help her be more open to listening after she had hurt someone -- a way to change her own patterned response to what to do after realizing you've caused harm. I love this song for that chance to change a pattern by intensely listening -- both to myself and the person I've hurt. So I've recorded it with lots of time and space for you discover how it sits in you. If you find you want to rush through it, try singing a harmony, or creating a melody you need to hear to help you stay with it. Eventually, I harmonize it my way and mash everything together -- may feel good to you, or you might like an earlier, more spacious moment? Enjoy listening in...

    Songwriter Info: Jennie Pearl (she/her) is a facilitator, singer, and bodyworker who leads from emotion and embodiment in liberation work. She is committed to bridging the gap between racial justice/gender justice and healing work. Alongside her team at Holistic Resistance and Transintimate, she offers a myriad of programming to cultivate ongoing relationships that dream up a more anti-racist, anti-oppressive, and liberatory future.

    ​Sharing Info: Yes -- The song is free to share but Jennie always welcome financial and/or networking support if/when folks are so moved.

    Links: Jennie's Venmo: https://account.venmo.com/u/Jennie-Pearl-1 -- if you are sharing the song on in a situation where you receive financial compensation, or if you have resources to support Jennie's work in the world, please consider sending support.
    Holistic Resistance: https://www.holisticresistance.com/about -- get inspired by what Jennie and others are dreaming!
    Reach for Life! Song Playlist: https://thebirdsings.com/reach/ -- with Listen In arranged by Lisa Littlebird

    Song Learning Time Stamps:
    Start time of teaching: 00:04:15
    Start time of reprise: 00:18:47
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    Nuts & Bolts: 4:4, major, 3-layer

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    116. Be Peace

    2:2 Accept Be Present Breathe Change Generosity Gentle Grow Heart Hope Journey Light Love Peace Release Scale: Ionian (Major) Song Form: Layer Trust Wisdom
    Song: Be Peace
    ​Music:     Deborah Leeds
    Lyrics

    Part 1:  
    Be peace, bring light

    Part 2:  
    This I am, this I am.
    Oooh-ooooh.

    Part 3:  
    Life is a mystery, she carries me.
    Oooh -ooh -ooh.
    ​
    Part 4:  
    So let go, let go
    And do your part to bring light,
    bring light
    And love.

    All: Be peace, bring light (Repeat for a good long minute)
    ​Be...............(Hold the word, like an "Om")
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    Notes: This song by Deborah Leeds both challenges and relaxes me-- it has a little "go big or go home" energy -- "Be peace, bring light!" Doesn't feel to me like a small task in today's world! But then it has a sweet, relaxed lilt, and as I sing "this I am," there's a measure of acceptance -- I can only bring me, after all. Then there's an opening of trust -- "Life is a mystery; she carries me" -- ah, now I can "let go, let go, and do (my) part to bring light, bring light and love." Layering all those parts together means I can choose the one I want to sing -- or touch on all four.

    Songwriter Info: Deborah Leeds has loved singing and harmonizing with others since she was two! Most recently and in a way that has been life-changing, she encountered Community Choir. A brief visit to Maggie Wheeler's Goldenbridge Choir in Los Angeles re-awakened her deep connection and need for songs and singing with others, and a simple and spontaneous prayer (in the form of a question posed to Maggie: "Please tell me there is someone doing this near me in Berkeley, CA") led to the discovery that Kaitie Ty Warren was forming her Living Room Choir five blocks from Deborah's home. It has been a love fest for the past seven years. Deborah has forayed into songleading, and most recently into songwriting. She is currently the Musical Assistant to the Living Room Choir. She is exuberant about the joy of singing, the absolute truth of medicine in songs, and is happily awestruck at the impact and healing that comes from singing with others. "This is one of the things that you would wish on everybody!" And so she does. And with that, shares this song. Enjoy!

    ​Sharing Info: Please share and enjoy this song, and please do contact Deborah to let her know that Be Peace has taken wing and found a perch in your choir or singing group! 

    Links: Deborah's current website is her professional website as a Psychotherapist, and you may contact her that route, deborahleeds.com, or via her email at onedeborah@icloud.com

    Song Learning Time Stamps:
    Start time of teaching: 00:04:00
    Start time of reprise: 00:12:48
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    Nuts & Bolts: 2:2, major, 4 part layer song

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    115. Reciprocity with Guest Pam Blevins Hinkle

    3 Layer 3:4 Abundance Be Grateful Beauty Belonging Breathe Earth Flow Generations Generosity Grieve Grow Heal Motion Ribbon Scale: Dorian Song Form: Harmonized Songwriter Conversation Trees Trust
    Song: Reciprocity
    ​Music: Pam Blevins Hinkle
    Lyrics

    I breathe for the trees and they breathe for me.
    You and me and the tree, living in reciprocity.

    Rooted in the moment and reaching for each other.
    Rooted in the moment and reaching for the dream.
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    Notes: Hands down favorite moment of this conversation? When I asked Pam a question that made her tense, and she started to sing to help herself through the challenging moment. Pam says she often has to say difficult things to people in power, and this was an example of how she uses improvised song to root and empower herself. We caught Pam at a transitional point, and I deeply appreciate her reflections about how song has stayed consistent across her life and how it has changed, the evolving role of relationships, what singing in community actually does or can do, what self care might look like. Oh, but then there was another favorite moment, when she tells a story about her relationship with her father.... hmmm. Lots to love here, not least of which is the song, Reciprocity -- after singing this song, you'll be ever more keenly aware of trees and our breath exchange with them.

    Songwriter Info: Pam Blevins Hinkle–song leader, composer, arts administrator, tree-lover, and kazoo fanatic–has devoted her life to projects that blend creativity, community-building, and spirituality. With over 30 years experience leading community, college, and congregational choirs, she currently facilitates spontaneous group singing for conferences and events, co-leads SongSquad Indianapolis with her brother Adam, co-produces the annual Indy Winter Solstice Celebration, and more. Pam has received numerous awards including the Inspirational Woman Award from IUPUI and the Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship from the Indy Arts Council. Since 2006, she has served as director of Spirit & Place, which sparks civic change through a one-of-kind, 11-day festival and through year-round initiatives that leverage the power of the arts, humanities, and religion to catalyze creativity and conversation.

    ​Sharing Info: Yes -- The song is free to share in oral tradition groups, but please contact Pam for recording and/or performing permission

    Links: 
    Indianapolis, Indiana Indigenous Peoples: Miami, Kickapu, Shawnee, Delaware: https://www.ala.org/aboutala/diversity/land-acknowledgement/indgenous-tribes-indiana
    Trees as communal creatures: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/05/04/993430007/trees-talk-to-each-other-mother-tree-ecologist-hears-lessons-for-people-too
    Laurence Cole, singing as “the oldest technology of belonging” https://www.laurencecole.com/
    Indianapolis Women’s Chorus: https://www.indianapoliswomenschorus.org/
    Winter Solstice Singing Ritual by Julie Forest Middleton, Stasa Morgan-Appel- published by Emerald Earth: https://www.allbookstores.com/Winter-Solstice-Singing-Ritual-Julie/9780966371550
    Indiana Forest Alliance: https://indianaforestalliance.org/
    Forests for Indy: Reciprocity (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rdj65H67Ww
    Lyndsey Scott: https://linktr.ee/lila.gaia
    Rhiannon: https://www.rhiannonmusic.com/
    Emergent Strategy- Adrienne Maree Brown: https://adriennemareebrown.net/book/emergent-strategy/
    Peter, Paul, and Mary “In The Wind” https://www.allmusic.com/album/in-the-wind-mw0000315197
    Hush-a-bye: ​​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM2VN2Hn-Z0
    Puff the Magic Dragon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y0ABZ0AJXY
    Very Last Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmk6cf32HH4
    Episode 69: Sing Upon Joy (Livian's Song) Lyndsey Scott & Livian & helpers
    https://www.abreathofsong.com/episodes--show-notes/69-sing-upon-joy-livians-song
    Episode 70: “As I Relax” Lyndsey Scott
    https://www.abreathofsong.com/episodes--show-notes/70-as-i-relax-with-guest-lyndsey-scott
    Song Squad Indianapolis Website: songsquadindy.com
    Indy Winter Solstice Celebration Website: indysolstice.com
    Pam's Website: pamblevinshinkle.com

    Song Learning Time Stamps:
    Start time of teaching: 00:03:51
    Start time of reprise: 00:55:44
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    Nuts & Bolts: 3:4, Dorian, 3-layers with a harmonized ending

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    113. Borrow Trouble with singer Seth Norton

    4:4 Accept Be Present Breathe Change Cycles Darkness Enough Flow Future Grieve Journey Release Scale: Aeolian (minor) Scale: Ionian (Major) Song Form: Layer Song Form: Unison Trust Water Waves
    Song: Borrow Trouble
    ​Music:     Patricia Norton
    Lyrics
    Let me not borrow this trouble
    ahead of time.
    Let me not carry this sorrow
    before it's mine.
    It will come when it comes, and go when it goes.
    I will know; I will know.
    It will come when it comes and go when it goes,
    I will know.

    My trust and love are banks on the river
    where grief and praise can find a flow.
    My tender heart, it floats on the ocean.
    The waves come. The waves go.
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    Notes: Sometimes I get so overwhelmed with the thought of death, I think I'm going to precipitate it by forgetting to breathe! And then somehow, something will help me back into the present, alive moment... and this song appeared just after one of those moments. I was absolutely delighted to record it with my son, Seth, who was visiting from Boston (you'll hear a little fangirl excitement in my voice)... and also surprised by how different it was for me to sing it with someone else rather than just my own voice on the looper! This voice music thing... it's always surprising me, delighting me, stretching me. And this particular song keeps coming back, insisting I sing it again.

    Songwriter Info: In addition to hosting this podcast and an online singing program, Pocket Songs, Patricia is excited to be developing an in-person community singing program in Burlington, Vermont. You can find more details about that at the Juneberry Music site. Patricia believes in singing as a part of vibrant well-being, experiencing wholeness, courage, connection and joy along with brokenness, fear, loneliness, and despair... trusting the whole messy catastrophe! She lives with her long-time beloved, Tom, in a single bedroom apartment close to their daughter's family (the better to play with their grand.) Patricia reads widely, and also spends time exploring the natural world on these Abenaki lands, knitting, and reluctantly strength-training.

    ​Sharing Info: You are welcome to share this song; please contact Patricia directly for sheet music or permission to record or perform. She always appreciates hearing about how the song travels.

    Links: 
    Patricia's Website: https://www.juneberrymusic.com

    ​Song Learning Time Stamps:
    Start time of teaching: 00:03:25
    Start time of reprise: 00:15:15
    ​​
    Nuts & Bolts: 4:4 Minor & Major, unison or 2-part layer

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    108. Can I stand Here For You?

    3 Layer 4:4 Be Present Belonging Breathe Empower Enough Friendship Generosity Heal Heart Scale: Ionian (Major) Trust
    Song: Can I Stand Here For You?
    ​Music:     Kate Munger
    Lyrics

    Can I stand here for you?
    May I use my heart as a gate?
    We may not need words.
    We may not need songs.
    ​We may only need our two hearts beating.
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    Notes: Kate wrote "Can I Stand Here For You" after watching an Oprah show about two injured women Iraq veterans. Juanita Wilson (who had lost her hand) saw Tammy Duckworth come in (she had lost one hand and both feet). Juanita had committed herself to “standing for” any injured female veteran. She asked Tammy "Can I stand here for you?" Then she washed Tammy's hair which still contained dust from Iraq. She used her one hand and asked an orderly to help her with his two hands. Tammy was comatose, in terrible pain and Juanita stood beside her bed for 5 days. Now Tammy is a tri-athlete and was Undersecretary of Veterans Affairs for President Barack Obama, the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 8th congressional district. And was then elected to the Senate from the State of Illinois.

    Knowing the backstory behind some songs makes the songs even richer. As I'm thinking about how we can work toward easing loneliness, this example of two women connecting, then Kate allowing herself to be touched by the story, gives an example... and gives me a way to remember how to make the offering of standing by someone. Don't miss the chance to sing with Melanie DeMore once you've learned the song -- she sings lower, which may give you a chance to experiment with the high harmony if you found it too high in this podcast -- or maybe the melody will feel super comfortable in Melanie's range? Keep finding what feels good in your voice!

    Songwriter Info: From Inverness CA, Kate Munger has devoted herself for over 40 years to creating non-hierarchical, collaborative models for spirited group singing, joyful community building, and deep fellowship through rounds and parts singing. Kate has written hundreds of singable, swinging, deep songs that remind us of our best inclinations and intentions, and are sung accompaniment to and medicine for our lives.

    She has loved returning home to Inverness after 9 singing trips to Bali, 6 to Thailand (and the Elephant Sanctuary where singing to and with Elephants was the highlight), and one each to Russia and Spain in the past three decades. Just as the Pandemic arrived, Kate returned from a month in New Zealand with 13 singers where they offered their sung prayers to the community of Christchurch as they remembered the devastating earthquake of 2011 and healed from the horrific shooting at the Muslim Mosque in March 2019. She deeply believes that singers are the best ambassadors of peace on our planet; we show our neighbors our best selves when we travel in their land and appreciate their people, their culture, and their tragedies and show that appreciation through our singing.

    In 2000 she founded the first of now 220 Threshold Choirs worldwide for choral singers who are called to sing at the bedsides of people who are dying, in a coma, newborns, children in hospital, and with folks who are grieving and who are incarcerated. In honoring its innovative mission, the Threshold Choir has re-imagined what true service can look like; healing the giver as it offers comfort, presence, and ease for the receiver. Now retired from running the business of the Threshold Choir, Kate lives, swims, works, and sings along the shores of Tomales Bay, for 16 years at the Lama Foundation in New Mexico and wherever she can.
    ​
    Sharing Info: Please sing this with loved ones freely -- when sharing in a money-making venture, like a workshop, class, or performance, please contact Kate for permission and rates.

    Links: A beautiful recording by Melanie DeMore, highly recommended by Kate: https://youtu.be/iDMFt9d5NaM
    Threshold Choir:     https://thresholdchoir.org/

    Song Learning Time Stamps:
    Start time of teaching: 00:03:28
    Start time of reprise: 00:15:52
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    Nuts & Bolts: 4:4 major 3-part harmony

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    105. Touch the Sky with Guest VoiceExchange

    3 Layer 4:4 Be Present Beauty Breathe Earth Grow Home Joy Light Open Safe Scale: Ionian (Major) Sky Song Form: Harmonized Songwriter Conversation Trees Trust
    Song: Touch the Sky
    Music: VoiceExchange
    Lyrics

    You are safe here, you are safe.
    No one will ask you why you need to touch the sky.
    Just touch the sky.     (3x)

    You are in the arms of the sky.
    ​No one ... you ... why ... you,
    you need to touch the sky,
    you need to touch the sky
    You need to touch sky, the sky.

     You are safe here, you are safe here,
    you are safe in the arm of the sky.
    No one will ask you why, oh no why.
    You'll touch the sky, just touch the sky.     (4x)
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    Notes: Songs can be career counselors, harmonizing means you don't have to memorize words, if you don't like to sing alone, then singing with others can unlock your voice, how to leave space for people, how to become a found family (food is involved) -- what other ideas might VoiceExchange have to share with you? This quintet of singers improvised their way through the pandemic -- learn how they honed their ability to play even when geographically distant (and hear an example at the very end, created on the fly with Zoom faces and Jacktrip sound). Improvisation can be a weird and wonderful world -- a chance to hear the unexpected. The song they shared is a tree speaking... and what a beautiful sense of embrace it creates.

    ​Songwriter Info: VoiceExchange initially formed as a practice group following a 2012 Bobby McFerrin Circlesongs workshop. As singers from disparate musical influences, they came together, connecting through a shared passion for vocal improvisation, and formed a unique a cappella group that blends diverse vocal styles into spontaneous harmonious arrangements. During the challenges of the pandemic VoiceExchange began a series of sequentially recorded collaborations for leading online circles. This resulted in a library of recordings, among them, Touch the Sky and Take My Hand. VoiceExchange members are Amado Ohland, Beth Lyons, Dina Torok, Joy Truskowski and Paris Kern. They can be found leading Circlesinging events in Maryland, Virginia, Massachusetts & Vermont as well as offering online and in-person workshops and providing spontaneous music to churches, temples and other community gatherings.

    Amado Ohland began his semi-professional career as a jazz and blues vocalist shortly after graduating University of Maryland at College Park with a bachelor's in music composition and theory. He attended his first Circlesongs workshop in 2011, and has been leading circlesinging events since 2013 in Washington DC, Pittsburgh, and western Virginia. He has recently received a master's degree in music from Radford University. For his doctoral dissertation he is working on a participatory ethnography of circlesinging worldwide and a song cycle of pieces based on circlesinging techniques.

    Born into a musical family, Beth Lyons actually can’t remember a ‘before’ time when singing-in-community wasn’t a part of her life. She currently performs improvised musicals with iMusical, the house musical improv team for Washington Improv Theater, performs and leads Circles with VoiceExchange, and leads online immersive Song Dive workshops and a Monday morning online choir named Coffee Choir. You can learn more about her offerings and sign up for her “Heads Up” notification/invite list at www.RiverChoir.org.

    Dina Torok has sung in and been musical director for various a cappella groups from college through adulthood. She was a professional film and television session singer, performed in various pop/rock bands in Los Angeles, and recorded an original solo album and a piano/vocal album of show tunes. Dina found VoiceExchange and circle singing in 2015 and has been a grateful member ever since.

    Joy Truskowski is a singer-songwriter and community songleader. She has performed as a solo artist in the Roanoke, VA area for 13 years. You can find her original songs on Bandcamp under the name “Joy Tru”. She started Star City Circlesinging in 2019 and has been leading circles with other co-leaders in Roanoke ever since. During the beginning of the pandemic she started contributing to VoiceExchange’s online circles. She fell in love with all of them, and they all asked her to marry them. She said, “I can’t marry you, but I’ll join your group!” And that was a fair compromise. So she officially joined in the summer of 2021.

    Paris Kern started performing traditional folk music at coffeehouses and concerts when she was 16 years old. She studied classical vocal performance in college, but her heart was always in the world of pure traditional folk traditions. In 2011, for reasons unknown to her, she was internally compelled to attend Bobby McFerrin’s CIrclesongs workshop. Feeling like a fish out of water, surrounded by mostly Jazz musicians, she nonetheless was hooked by the magic of Circlesongs and the sensation that her heart was being sung back to her. She has been leading circles in Washington DC, and Baltimore and is now starting circles in Southern Vermont.

    Sharing Info: VoiceExchange would love to know if you plan to teach or perform Touch the Sky or another of their songs; drop them a line at info@VoiceExchange.org. And if teaching/performing their song is a profitable business for you, please share a bit of the profit with them via their donation link at https://voiceexchange.org.

    Links:
    Paris mentions a Burl Ives recording, but we could only find a link for Patti Page’s version of "How Much is that Doggy in the Window?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rJo9yJxd5M
    Julie Andrews: https://www.biography.com/actors/julie-andrews
    Joan Baez: https://www.biography.com/musicians/joan-baez
    David Crosby: https://davidcrosby.com/
    Martin Carthy: https://www.allmusic.com/artist/martin-carthy-mn0000367979
    "It’s a Small World After All" by Richard and Robert Sherman
    https://www.songfacts.com/facts/disneyland-childrens-sing-along-chorus/its-a-small-world
    "Diddle, Diddle Dumpling, My Son John" : https://allnurseryrhymes.com/diddle-dumpling/
    Freddie Mercury: https://www.biography.com/musicians/freddie-mercury
    Somatic Voicework: http://thevoiceworkshop.com/somatic-voicework/
    Bobby McFerrin Circlesinging: https://circlesongs.com/circlesong-school-2023/
    Tuvan throat singing: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210414-a-revival-of-indigenous-throat-singing
    All the Way In- Rhiannon: https://www.rhiannonmusic.com/all-the-way-in-home
    Motor, interlock definitions: http://songsofthemoment.com/category-rhiannon/
    Take My Hand: Episode 104 on A Breath of Song:     https://www.abreathofsong.com/episodes--show-notes/104-take-my-hand
    Vocal River by Rhiannon: https://www.rhiannonmusic.com/vocal-river
    Zuza: https://singers.com/vocal-coach/Zuza-Goncalves/
    “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience” by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66354.Flow
    Tuck & Patti album 1988 Time After Time: https://www.discogs.com/release/10168223-Tuck-Patti-Time-After-Time
    Star City Circlesinging: https://www.meetup.com/Star-City-Circlesinging/
    Musica do Circulo Brazil: https://www.playgroundforthearts.com/musica-do-circulo
    Amado on Bandcamp: https://amadomusic.bandcamp.com/album/circlesinging-on-zoom
    "She’s So Unusual" by Cindy Lauper: https://www.allmusic.com/album/shes-so-unusual-mw0000194590
    "The Game" by Queen: https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-game-mw0000650663
    "Medicine Music" by Bobby McFerrin: https://www.allmusic.com/album/medicine-music-mw0000309576
    Prince: https://www.prince.com
    Eagles: https://eagles.com
    Sting: https://www.sting.com
    Billy Joel: https://www.billyjoel.com
    Alanis Morisette: https://alanis.com
    "Blue" by Joni Mitchell: https://jonimitchell.com/music/album.cfm?id=5
    "Abbey Road" by The Beatles: https://www.thebeatles.com/abbey-road
    Patrick Watson: https://patrickwatson.net
    Great interview with Martin Carthy: https://www.innerviews.org/inner/martin-carthy.html
    And here’s a link to Martin singing “The Trees they Do Grow High”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaKGeTmFqbE
    "Vocabularies" by Bobby McFerrin: https://bobbymcferrin.com/albums/vocabularies/
    VoiceExchange on Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/circlesinging-dc/
    Jacktrip Software: https://www.jacktrip.com

    VoiceExchange's quiet Website: https://voiceexchange.org
    Email: info@voiceexchange.org
    VoiceExchange on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VoiceExchangeMusic?mibextid=LQQJ4d
    VoiceExchange on Instagram: https://instagram.com/voiceexchange?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
    VoiceExchange's Email: info@voiceexchange.org

    Amado's Website: https://amadomusic.com/
    Paris's Website: https://www.pariskern.com
    Joy's Website: http://www.joytru.com
    Beth's choir Website: https://www.riverchoir.org

    Song Learning Time Stamps:
    Start time of teaching: 00:05:10
    Start time of reprise: 01:14:25
    Improvisation at 1:18:55
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    Nuts & Bolts: 4:4, Major, 3-part harmony, 3-layer

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