I typically go to the MoTab intranet website and download the music that is new. This is typically music for the next Music and the Spoken Word (MSW) broadcast but may also include music for upcoming events such as Tanner Gift of Music, Pioneer Day Concert, or Christmas. I download that all and put it in various folders on my computer depending on whether it's for the Music and the Spoken Word broadcast, or concert. This gets transferred to my iPhone music where I can plug into my car and listen to the music consistently.

I am still listening to the music, and trying to memorize those pieces which we are required to memorize. We typically do 5 or 6 pieces of music each week, and with 0-6 pieces memorized. For concerts, that number goes up along with the memorization. The way I memorize (it works for me) is repetition, repetition, and more repetition. Each time I listen to a piece, I pick up a new phrase.

Thursday evening is the rehearsal for MoTab. If there is a special event such as a concert coming up, our practices may expand to Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday's. Note, we very rarely do anything on a Monday as that is the time set aside for Family Hone Evening. At the Thursday night rehearsal, we start the evening by vocalizing. Various scales, chromatics, and vowel pronunciations are the norm. This is all done to "wake up" up voices. After announcements and prayer, we start off by practicing the music for the upcoming MSW broadcast. After going through the music, we are cautioned against musical pitfalls, or places that we have to pay especial attention to. The music is taped and timed for the MSW broadcast. In case you did not know, MSW is broadcast live on Sundays and the entire show must fall within the time limits. 

More music is listened to, making sure that the pieces to be memorized are, in fact memorized.

Arrive at the Tabernacle, get dressed in the designated suit/tie combination for the week, pick up fold and any new music that is for the following week MSW. Go into our designated seating and at 7:25 sharp, begin to wake our voices up. Note, that everything we do in the choir is to the exact time. There is no "Mormon Standard Time" in the MoTab! We rehearse the spots that the conductor heard from the tapes made at Thursday night rehearsal. At around 8:30, we have a complete run-through of the MSW broadcast start to end with no interruptions. Afterwards, we will get messages from the sound and video personnel about things that can be improved upon as well as our posture, smile (or lack of). At precisely 9:30, the Nationwide broadcast of MSW is broadcast. It's live, so all the things we have been working on come to fruition for the half hour broadcast. We, as choir members will get instant feedback from our conductor on the previous piece by thumbs up or "the look". :) After the broadcast is over, more words are said to the audience by Lloyd Newell, the voice of MSW and we sing, "God Be With You". If there is an upcoming event, such as Christmas, we will then have rehearsal until 11:30-12:00pm. We then are excused, change out of our suits, place music back into our lockers, turn in music that the library requests and we are done.

This pattern is repeated again and again each week. So, MoTab music is my playlist. I have personally found, when listening to MoTab music the following: