Editing Audio

What is that crazy green thing?

It's a song... in WaveForm.

Waveform is the wavy way audio LOOKS.  Kinda fun, right?

SO, I just have to say that it drives me crazy when a recorded song doesn't stay at the same volume throughout. I don't mean the dramatic highs and lows written into a song - I mean the literal volume level of the audio file. Unfortunately, many of the songs on the LDS music player do not stay at consistent audio levels within themselves, and also the audio levels vary from song to song. SO, when I make the Primary Music CD I go straight to work leveling out the audio and trimming the edges. It's subtle and it doesn't bother any one else but me. BUT, I do it anyway... for my own sanity....  :)

2015 Primary Song CDs

The plan was to get the CDs out at the beginning of the year.

It's July.

Needless to say, the 2015 CDs were thrown together and scribbled on with Sharpie.

For the cases I did the same idea as this paper CD case. But this time I had a plethora of extra envelopes lying around my house, so I used those. The were red and pink - so it got a Valentines vibe in bright summery month of July. BUT AT LEAST THEY GOT DONE!   :)

Primary Songs 2015 PLAYLIST

Listen to our
2015 Primary Program Songs here:

*On LDS.org:
I Know That My Savior Loves Me (sheet music)
Jesus Loved the Little Children  59
He Sent His Son 34
This Is My Beloved Son  76I'm Trying to Be Like Jesus  78
The Holy Ghost  105
Come Follow Me,  hymn 116
Jesus Once Was a Little Child  55
Tell Me The Stories of Jesus  57
I Stand All Amazed, hymn 193



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Fun arrangements/videos
of our 2015 Primary Songs:

• I Know That My Savior Loves Me - MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR**
• I Know That My Savior Loves Me - FAMILY CHOIR FROM ROY AREA IN CONFERENCE
• He Sent His Son - MOTAB
• I'm Trying to Be Like Jesus - MOTAB + VIDEO
• Come Follow Me - MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR
• Tell Me The Stores of Jesus - MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR

29th Ward's 2015 Primary Music Time Songs:

*NEW!*  Listen to our 2015 Primary Program Songs HERE.


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Below are planned songs for us to learn (and perform sometime during the year) from the Primary Outline 2015, “I Know the Savior Lives":


*BLACK + highlighted text are sing in Sacrament songs. Either for Primary Program, Holiday or both.

*GREY text are non-performing songs that we've sung/will sing this year

***We sing and learn other songs, too, as Opening Songs or sporadically throughout the year as the Spirits directs in correlation to the Sharing Time lessons. Because of the spontaneous nature of those songs, they may not be fully listed below. I tried to backtrack and remember and list the ones we've done in grey text.


JANUARY

I Know That My Savior Loves Me  (sheet music), ARR1
Jesus Loved The little Children  59

I Am a Child of God  2
My Heavenly Father Loves Me 228
I Feel My Savior's Love  74
Once There Was a Snowman
My Hands
Do As I'm Doing
Jesus Wants Me For a Sunbeam
Smiles
I Believe in Christ (hymnal)

FEBRUARY

He Sent His Son  34  (*Sing the Sacred Songs Arrangement for EASTER)

This Is My Beloved Son  76

To Think About Jesus  71
I Lived in Heaven  4

Did Jesus Really Live Again  64
I Am a Child of God 2
Once There Was a Snowman

MARCH

Follow the Prophet  110

The 6th Article of Faith  126

Book of Mormon Stories  118

Keep the Commandments  146

Stand for the Right  159

Nephi's Courage  120
Did Jesus Really Live Again?  64

The Church of Jesus Christ 77
I Hope They Call Me on a Mission

Do As I'm Doing
Hinges
*EASTER SONGS:
He Died That We Might Live Again  65
Easter Hosanna  68
Jesus Has Risen  70
To Think About Jesus  71

APRIL

The Church of Jesus Christ  77
Jesus Wants Me For a Sunbeam *verses 1 and 4 (in an older orange book..."Sing With Me")

This is My Beloved Son  76

The Golden Plates  86

The Priesthood is Restored  89

MAY

I'm Trying to Be Like Jesus  78

I Will Be Valiant  162

When I Am Baptized  103

Listen, Listen  107

Army of Helaman  172
In the Leafy Treetops
Little Birds
Popcorn Popping
Little Seeds Lie Fast Asleep
We Are Different
Do As I'm Doing
(+ all the program songs listed above)

I Often Go Walking
Families Can Be Together Forever 188
A lot of Mother's Day Songs....

JUNE

The Holy Ghost  105

The 1st Article of Faith 122

The Still Small Voice  106

I Know My Father Lives  5
Do As I'm Doing
We Are Different

Fathers
Daddy's Homecoming

My Dad   211
The Family is of God (verse 1)
(+ all the program songs listed above)
JULY

Come Follow Me (V1 and V4)  hymn 116

Jesus Once Was a Little Child  55

I Will Follow God's Plan  164

I'll Walk With You  140

Jesus said Love Everyone  61

I'm Trying to Be Like Jesus  78
+Patriotic Songs
+Pioneer Songs
(+ all the program songs listed above)

AUGUST

Tell Me the Stories of Jesus  57

The 7th Article of Faith  126

Did Jesus Really Live Again?  64

Faith  96

A Child's Prayer  12
(+ all the program songs listed above)

SEPTEMBER

Choose the Right Way 160
Dare to Do Right  158
I Pray in Faith  14
Search, Ponder and Pray  109
(+ all the program songs listed above)

OCTOBER

I Hope They Call Me on a Mission  169

Repentance  98
I Love to See the Temple  95

NOVEMBER

Called to Serve  174

We Are Different  263

Families Can Be Together Forever  188

Love One Another  136

Seek the Lord Early  108

DECEMBER

Christmas Songs

Samuel Tells of Baby Jesus  36
Away in a Manger  42

When He Comes Again  82

The 10th Article of Faith  128

Giant Happy Card!

The reason we sang Scatter Sunshine was so that we could scatter some sunshine to our Pianist who was released! After learning the happy song we scattered some sunshine in the her direction by all signing a giant card for her!

29th Ward's 2014 Songs to Learn:

Planned songs for us to learn (and perform sometime during the year) from the Primary Outline 2014, “Families Are Forever”:


*BLACK text are performing songs. Either for Primary Program, Holiday or both.

*GREY text are non-performing songs

*We learn other songs, too, sporadically throughout the year as the Spirits directs in correlation to the Sharing Time lessons. Because of the spontaneous nature of those songs (and because they won't be in the Program), they may not be fully listed below. I tried to backtrack and remember and list the ones we've done in grey text.


JANUARY
He Sent His Son 34

I Lived in Heaven 4

I'm Trying to Be Like Jesus 78

Jesus Once Was a Little Child 55

FEBRUARY
I Will Follow God’s Plan 164

My Heavenly Father Loves Me 228

The Lord Gave Me a Temple 153

Choose the Right hymn

MARCH

I Stand All Amazed Hymn 193  (*sing 1st verse for Easter with ASL)

Jesus Has Risen 34

The Chapel Doors

APRIL

The Family Is Of God (sheet music)  (*sing for Mother's day)

-Easter Songs

MAY

Stand For The Right 159

JUNE

Love Is Spoken Here 190 (*sing for Father's Day)
A Young Man Prepared 166 (*sing for Father's Day)
Daddy's Homecoming 210 (*sing for Father's Day)

JULY

Baptism 100

AUGUST

Seek The Lord Early 108
A Smile is Like the Sunshine
Scatter Sunshine (hymn)
Scripture Power
Search, Ponder and Pray

SEPTEMBER

Random "ABC" songs lesson (I didn't write all those down...)
Every Star is Different
"Leaves" are Falling all Around
It's Autumntime
"Leaves" Were Falling Off the Apricot Tree
Once There Was a "Tree"

OCTOBER

2015 Program Song Review +
Shari Orme Arrangement of Families Can Be Together Forever and I Love to See the Temple

NOVEMBER

2015 Program Song Review +
Help Me, Dear Father
I Am Glad For Many Things
Thanks to Thee
Children All Over the World

DECEMBER

Christmas Songs

2014 "NEW YEAR, NEW SONGS" Program

Ask adults in the Ward to come sing during one hour of Primary (the other hour everyone goes to classes). Arrange them into groups. This is how I'm trying it for 2014. I have a narrator (me) speaking a few lines in between each song.  Afterwards if we have time I have additional activities.  Either this or this or both, maybe?

This related post may be of interest: A Note on the Song Introduction Program

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2014 "NEW YEAR NEW SONGS" PROGRAM:

The 2014 Primary Theme is "Families Are Forever".
Our forever families start when we have love at home.

♫   1. LOVE AT HOME (verses 1+2), hymnal 318
RS Presidency

Home is where we learn about God's plan for us.
I will follow God's plan.

♫   2. I WILL FOLLOW GOD’S PLAN p 164
Male Teachers Group + EQ Presidency

God's plan included sending His own Son to live and die for us.
We know that he sent his son.

♫   3. HE SENT HIS SON p 34
Female Teachers Group

To know that God loves us so much to send his only begotten Son to Earth makes us feel as though we stand all amazed.

♫   4. I STAND ALL AMAZED (3 verses), hymn 193
Bishopric

We want to know all about Heavenly Father's plan for us.
That is why we will seek the Lord early.

♫   5. SEEK THE LORD EARLY p 108
Female Teachers Group

When I learn about Jesus I know
that Heavenly Father's plan includes baptism.

♫   6. BAPTISM (3 verses), p 100
Solo

We are taught good things in our homes by our parents.
In our homes we know that love is spoken here.

♫   7. LOVE IS SPOKEN HERE, p 190
Father and YW Daughter

Love is spoken in our homes because the family is of god.

♫   8. THE FAMILY IS OF GOD (1 verse), sheet music
Primary Presidency + Chorister

2013 Program Songs Crossword Puzzles

*If you print this you may need to open both pictures separately

and then print on two pages (or front and back).

*More clues can be found at the bottom of this post. (But can you do it without the extra clues?)

*LINKS to make your own puzzles.

More Clues:
IAMACHILDOFGOD
MYHEAVENLYFATHERLOVESME
IFTHESAVIORSTOODBESIDEME
IPRAYINFAITH
TEACHMETOWALKINTHELIGHT
IAMLIKEASTAR
HOLDINGHANDSAROUNDTHEWORLD
WHENIAMBAPTIZED
FAMILIESCANBETOGETHERFOREVER
ACHILDSPRAYER
ILOVETOSEETHETEMPLE

Paper CD Case - (Primary Music CDs 2013)

Note to self: CD burning took longer than I thought it would. Factor in procrastination and the kids are getting the CDs about a month before the Primary Program. 

For the cases:

• Cut a 12x12" scrapbook page in half (so it's 6" x 12")
• Fold in half
• Cut width to be 5 1/4" wide.

• *Finished cut area is 6" tall by 5 1/4" wide.

• Clear tape the sides
• Put CD in
• Fold down top

Extra security strip, so CD doesn't fall out on the way home:

• Cut 2" wide x 6" long stips
• Center strip and fold around
• Tape at back

Could add a cute tag with the Year or the Theme or your Ward's Name... (I ran out of time).

Military Tribute Video 2013

I took the videos I'd found and gathered in this post and put them together to make my own Military Tribute montage video for my Ward. It's basically a mini Music and the Spoken Word. :)  About 10 minutes long.

VIDEO CLIP ORDER:
1. Battle Hymn of the Republic ♪
2. Duty, Honor, Courage
3. Who Are the Brave? ♪

*I made some minor tweaks to the audio. (Just gentle crossfading and the levels mostly in Who Are The Brave. You won't even notice.)

*This is compressed, so the quality is going to be low and grainy. If you live near me I'll happily burn you a full quality video.

Link to YouTube: http://youtu.be/xMwgRdKZ7eA

Holding Hands Around the World: Mail Swap

I decided to incorporate a mail swap when we learned the song Holding Hands Around the World. I found two Primaries in Italy and Japan to do our mail swap with (our Utah Ward was big enough to split with two other Wards). Finding a Ward turned out to be trickier than I thought, but I pulled it off. So, if you want to do this be sure to plan ahead. Way ahead. This activity is not one you can just pull out of a last-minute bucket. It takes some serious planning. Another thing that really helped was having a template for the kids to fill out. I also hung one I had already filled out on the board as an example. I had a younger version of the temple for JR and an older version for SR.

*There is a mail swap at OCD Primary Chorister that closes at the end of May 2013.

Here is a sample of some of our letters:

Listen to the 2013 Primary Songs

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This post is for my Ward (and any one else who happens to be reading) to be able to listen to the 2013 Primary Songs online.

IN THE 2013 OUTLINE:

• I Am a Child of God
• My Heavenly Father Loves Me
• When I Am Baptized
• Families Can Be Together Forever
• A Child's Prayer
• If The Savior Stood Beside Me

OTHERS WE NEED TO KNOW FOR THE PROGRAM!:

• I Am Like a Star
• I Pray in Faith
• Teach Me to Walk in the Light (hymnal)
• Holding Hands Around the World (this song is a MAYBE)