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4 Part Har-mo-nee

Horse

Horse

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We're but 2 short weeks away from contest time again. This time it's district (5 state region) in Little Rock. Just as a reminder, we're NOT going to win this year because the 'Vocal Majority', 9X world champs, are back in the contest after sitting out their mandatory 2 years.

Here's the 2 songs we're singing.

Come take your place in my heart

&

I can't give you anything but love

These were recorded on mini cd last Tuesday at rehearsal.

The ballad is an original tune written by Jim Clancy, director of the VM, and is simply a beautiful song.

The 'uptune' needs polish over the next 2 weeks..but it'll get there.

Please excuse the 'airy' noices and squeeky risers and Phil, our director, hollering during the uptune.
 
Sounds like fun. I'm looking forward to it.

Will you be in these recordings?

Dave ;)
 
OK Guys, gotta tell you this. I heard horse singing lightly with a CD on Wednessday night. And fellas, the dude can sing, trust me!!
 
*Grins*... Mr Ed was the only horse I ever heard sing to date... Cannot wait til this next rendition! By the way twould be WAY easy to beat Mr. Ed's renditions!
 
Yahoo "Sing along with Horse" Yaoza watch that bouncing pony :D

Barbershop accapella is the best :thumbs: :thumbs: I can't wait :D
 
Horse, which one of these are you in? Any of them?

On the 4th, Peter Jennings had some of the competition on his newscast. Man that was awesome! In high school I was a part of a quartet, but I was no where near as good as what I was hearing on that tape...

I love this kind of music!

You ever listen to Rockapella? They played our high school along with the Tower of Power, boy you want to talk about good?! WHOOOOOT! Our high school band opened for them and it was like floating on air....

:0
 
Will give these links a shot when I get home and on the cable connection. Never been a fan of this style myself but then heck didn't like jazz either and now can't get enough of "smooth jazz". *shrugs* so who knows - let you know later tonight or tomorrow if you hooked another one.

Sam
 
Pretty good stuff, there, Horse! Which one are you?

In college, I was part of a small a cappella SATB singing group called The Chamber Singers: sixteen voices, four on each part. (Unless we were singing SSAATTBB stuff, in which case there were two on each part.)

One of the most maddening--but still fun--exercises our conductor would put us through in rehearsal would start with us "ooo"-ing with the piano on some four-part chord or other--say, Cmaj7. (If you're not familiar with guitar notation, that's C, E, G, and B.) Then he'd hold his hand flat, palm down, in the air at waist level, and say, "That's here." He'd shut us up and start us "ooo"-ing again on a C#maj7 chord (each part half a step up from the previous chord), then hold his hand flat at chin level and say, "That's here. Now follow my hand." He'd move his hand slowly up and down between the two extremes, and our job was to keep "ooo"-ing and make sure our chord stayed precisely in tune as it drifted up and down the half-step range.

When we were first getting used to the exercise, he'd use his other hand to point and glower at whichever section he thought needed it; but after a few iterations, we'd have to figure out who was screwing it up on our own.

Whew! I haven't done any serious (challenging, I mean) singing in a long time. Bummer. I miss it. Maybe I'll go looking for a madrigal group or something.

Thanks for the memories, Horse.
 
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