Hi! I'm a 20-year-old student who loves music and does things like write/record/release original music and transcribe other people's songs sometimes. Enjoy!
I started a quartet in highschool and we did a similar bit in 2003 and it's so much fun. Let's all sing and recognize/harmonize the fun songs that happen all the time.
I would like to add a little bit further to my previous comment. A call out to vocal coaches out there in RU-vid land; correct me if I am wrong, but I can hear quite a few notes sung which are not in perfect pitch, but because they are used to singing together, and they are listening to one another, you can also hear the minute adjustments made to make sure the harmony works. I think they are exceptional together because a lot of chiors have great singers, but they often don't listen to one another and don't know how to adjust their pitch if there are inaccuracies or slightly missed notes.
potentially dumb question, but im having trouble getting it to sound right with harmony engine--do you know the full midi chords that id have to play? like I can't figure out the exact chords or my voice is just way too pitchy and goes all over the place lol
No offense & very respectfully but: I very highly doubt if they would have actually sang this piece because It seems so so so much perfect & when something is that much perfect, then there must have been some kind of artificial correction 🤔 But, Hey, it's just me & my paranoid personality traits 😅
A choir can actually sound like this. Speaking from experience, since I have also been in a choir for years. The only thing that might me added is a bit of an echo on the mics ^^
@@jasonfieler I found that when I tried to play this on my piano, such as I do with most songs I like, it was severely out of tune, I just had to make sure that neither my piano nor my ears were broken.
I like it when they're all on the same couch/set for the interview. You could see and feel the way they interact as friends. I enjoyed the conversation, good stuff, and I'll keep my ears out for these guys in the future.
Additionally, as you said the very last "I'm down" (08:28) is unusual--suspended supertonic. So you have to treat it as a non chord tone, and it can't be the root. In jazz and soul, suspended 6th to 5th or just added 6th is very common. I would just call it Cmaj7.
Finally, the chord at m.26 is D9sus. I think this is such an amazing arranging-acrobatics moment. As you alluded to, it gives maximum control to the lead. Consequently we have to think about things more linearly and horizontally.
Lance here: My goal in the last half (and other parts of the song) of this was to think of the chords as separate from the melody similar to if the back 3 parts were an orchestra accompanying Francesco. This is definitely an atypical of barbershop thing. To do so, I had to REALLY analyze the keyboard part and mimic what the orchestration would be. It was a great journey as an arranger and I feel really proud of the choices I made in this. Glad to see you nerding out with me ❤
My uncle is apart of the international champion barbershop quartet (yes, it is a thing). They did Sinatra and jazz standards all the time…and Bombs over Baghdad by OutKast
