Today's lesson at choir was on bar lines and repeats.
We started off looking at single and double bar lines and the skinny-and-thick end-of-the-piece double bar lines. If the double bar lines are both skinny, it's just the end of a section.
Then we looked at what the repeats look like. Here's a good little chart that shows you.
We looked at first and second endings, when they mark the repeat like that up there. And, we looked at an example of a D. S. al Coda. Where they don't mark the repeat with the special double bars with repeat marks, but write the words with or without symbols. The symbol for that Sign/Segno is cool. Coda just means ending, and it has a cool symbol too. Check out the symbols in the chart below. Fine means the end of the song. Do you get the difference between ending and end? So you go back to the special sign and then skip to the ending when it tells you to (it'll say to Coda or al Coda). Then you sing that special ending part to the end. So it's like you've got 2 verses, and they're almost the same except for the last part which is fancy for the ending.
There's a really good animation that shows you how it works here. You can follow along while it plays the music and describes what it's doing. Try it!
D. C. al Coda works the same way except you go back to the beginning. C stands for Capo, head in Italian, meaning the beginning.
When you get a new piece of music, it's always a good idea to look at the whole piece first to see if there are any repeats. I don't recommend making dog ears on your music. Use a sticky note or just make a big circle around the beginning of a repeat with a pencil. That way, when it's time to flip back, you know where you're going.
We have lots of repeats in our music this season. Look through the pieces you already know and see how much you already know about repeats. Then look at the pieces you don't know or have forgotten and apply your new understanding of repeats to them.
You're reading music!
Your's in harmony,
Renate 
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