Vocal Coach Reacts to Home Free - Sea Shanty Medley 

Helplessly Hoping by Home Free is five part harmony perfection, might want to give it a listen

I was also totally blown away by Adam Rupp's 'castanets' he was creating. I've never heard a human recreate the sound of castanets before, and it was just a perfect highlight to that tune! :)

Adam Rupp never ceases to amaze me with his vocal percussion....the castanets are a thing of magic! Amazing....as always the harmonies and that BASS.

Tara, you need to react to Home Free’s version of “When A Man Loves A Woman”....Austin has the lead the entire song, and it is one of his best vocal performances yet. You would love it!!!

Sword Guy is Austin Brown (Tenor 1) Beard Guy with Glasses is Rob Lundquist (Tenor 2) Beard Guy with Beanie is Adam Chance (Baritone/Bass) Jack Sparrow is Tim Foust (Bass) Bottle Guy is Adam Rupp (Beatboxer) Loved your reaction, I would recommend Home Free's American Pie cover and VoicePlay's Little Mermaid Medley. 💙

Geoff castelluci - Sixteen Tons. Super impressive, you’ll love it.

There is only one word for Home Free..... PERFECTION!!!!!! LOVE these guys!!!!

I've come to the conclusion that it's impossible to listen to Tim Foust without getting massive shivers.

Well, now you have to react to VoicePlay‘s „My Mother told me“ ;)

Home Free are the masters of harmonies and arrangements! Shout out to Darren Rust from The Blenders - world class mixing! He's like the sixth member of Home Free!

The Wellerman is known so well here. Being in Ireland of course sea shanties are huge but my 8 year old daughter's class recorded this last week and they did an amazing job with percussion too! They are a talented bunch! She's autistic but goes to mainstream school due to being academically gifted. She started Violin lessons today and already she's a natural. She asked me do you do online lessons for younger children? She wants to be a professional singer and musician.

The one that was very animated and fun was Austin Brown their high tenor, he's had classical training and show performance used to sing for Voices of Liberty at Disney and also did some musical theatre on Cruise ships before joining Home Free and you can tell he still has that animated show quality. Making it fun to watch as well as listen to.

Home Free - When A Man Loves A Woman is fantastic!!

As a youth I grew to age among those who worked upon the earth and sea, almost all were Irish butof course the boatmen were French and Canadians. What sticks in my ears and heart comes from time mostly at the Local Irish pub and a frencham owned saloon. They had a radio in each, we were far from TV, wasn't built then, and in each when radio one of own nationality sang all the men joined in. I miss those voices they sang from joy, they sang from sadness, they sang of life. Lots of shanty songs of Cod, Mackeral and lobster fishermen sang of seamens lives the Canadians sang old Brit and inbboth the loggers and woodsman sang their ditys. Even the women sang Shanty, and old Irish dittys and just as lustily used the same raunchy words as the men. No easy living, man or woman sang hard, worked hard, lived hard and loved hard till they died hard, and those songs many of which were hundreds of years had been sang by their ancestors. It was a tribute to each other to join in singing with each other Many a great donny brook I seen as a lad and later as logger joined in with gusto. Yet there were many a sad song and each poured a wee dollop upon ground or floor towards an empty chair for the ones no longer among them. One needed no instruments or maybe now and then as they bang ed their pints on bar and stamped feet The squeeze box, an old guitar maybe and a man or two who could use harmonica or whistle a tune. Shanty and ditty if words listened tobby those who lived them. I miss those men and women of back then who sang from souls.

Please do Austin Brown (the one with the sword) singing Unchained Melody! Trust me you won't regret it!! 😍😍👍🤯

Omg the first time I watched this, I couldn't stop ! Replay x4! 😍 very catchy !

Tara I would love for you to react to Home Free's working for a living it's great and hilarous.

Blue plaid shirt with beard is Rob Lindquist. The red pirate shirt with sword is Austin Brown. First singer of the video with the blue tobogan drumming on the guitar and blue t shirt is Adam Chance. Of course in the white shirt from the old pirate shirt is beatboxes Adam Rupp and of course Tim Faust is in the whole Jonny Depp pirate costume. Hope this helps.

If you love a medley, you need to hear Pentatonix’s ‘90’s dance medley’. So good.

It’s trend on tic toc and Chance (first singer) likes them and convinced the group to do it. That’s why they had the floating hf in the corner. He does a cover of the Wellerman with the Hound and the fox.

Thanks for getting back to Home Free! Here are a few other great songs you might find interesting; "End of the Road" (Robb goes to church) "When a Man Loves a Woman" (Austin's best vocal showcase) "American Pie" (A great 50th anniversary homage with Don McLean) "How Great Thou Art" (5 part harmony with no beat boxing) "Blue Ain't Your Color", "Folsom Prison Blues" , "In the Blood" (They are just great songs)

Hope you appreciated that for a socially distanced recording from their individual homes, the tightness was more than just turning knobs. It also spoke to their familiarity as a band and their professional experience as singers and recording artists. Thank you

Thanks for the great reaction, would love to hear you react to Home Frees "When A Man Love A Woman" !!! Austin takes the lead and it is Amazing !!!!

Hey hey Tara. Loved your reaction. Do Voice Plays song My Mother Told Me.

And all done in quarantine! Home Free is so good. Love their harmonies. Tim (bass-Jack Sparrow) and Austin (sword) went full pirate mode. Who knew sea shanties were a thing? I didn’t. Chance (who lead the medley) loves sea shanties and convinced the boys to do this. So glad you noticed the castanets- most reactors either don’t hear them or don’t mention them and I loved them too. I don’t know how Adam (beatboxer) does them. Rob (glasses) is the last member. Hopefully this will help you remember them. Try Helplessly Hoping, Auld Lang Syne, In the Blood for more great harmonies. Good reaction!

Please do Geoff Castelucci - Take me home country roads

Please check out and react to Home Free’s version of “ When a Man Loves a Woman”! Austin sings the lead and he will blow you away! It’s just plain fantastic! Thank you!

I’d love to see your reaction to their recent version of When A Man Loves A Woman.

Home Free Reaction: When A Man Loves A Woman. Voice Play: My Mother Told Me.

I've been obsessed with this medley for weeks, so fun to hear you react to it!

The most amazing thing to me is that this was a quarantine performance. None of the guys were in the same place when they recorded this.

And knowing he made the castanet sounds with his (Adam Rupp)voice and not an actual instrument is mind blowing !

A pair of headphones would help to solidify the the harmony and bass

One thing I love about this arrangement is how the beat increases with each song.

Austin Brown's cover of Unchained Melody is unmatched

Literally addicted to the medley!!!!!!! Listened to it on repeat for the past week!!!!!!!

Next reaction should be VoicePlay's "My Mother Told Me." Sea shanties are so 2020. Great reaction!

Thank you for all that you do! You have no idea of what everything you do on your Channel means to me! You are AWESOME! Thank you again! Sending love your way! God bless you ❤

Hi Tara, Did you realize the castanets were from the human drum kit, Adam Rupp? AMAZING!!

Fresh out of the waters! Nice one

home boy in the blue shirt = Adam Chance

Great reaction! The "castanets" were being produced by Adam Rupp's mouth. 👍😁

My favorite Home Free cover arrangement of all time: Do You Hear What I Hear is a phenomenal vocal earthquake by Adam Rupp! 🤯🤯. A great new Home Free arrangement : Brothers in Arms is incredible! I hear a lot of home fries talk about Helplessly Hoping and I’m like why has not any vocal coach on RU-vid listened and reviewed Home Free: Brothers In Arms! It gives me chills = Stunning harmonies! 🤭

So glad you took on Home Free once again. Would really love to see you react to (so many) “Helplessly Hoping,” “When A Man Loves A Woman,” or any of their quarantine songs. Austin Brown has a number of solo songs that are “live” as well as a few singles. Thanks! If you want to hear Tim’s range watch Snow Globe,” live try “Beautiful Star of Bethlehem” done this past Christmas with Jeffrey East & The Oakridge Boys.

Tim’s voice is overwhelming in this one (especially in headphones) and I am SO HERE FOR IT!

Loved your reaction! And I'm glad you caught the castanets - and amazing that Adam Rupp can simulate that sound with his mouth! And you can tell that Austin has experience in musical theater (he's the one in red with the sword).

I always love your reactions! This was such a fun one by Home Free. I've got to add to other's requests for My Mother Told Me by VoicePlay and Sixteen Tons by Geoff Castellucci. They're so good!!!

This may have been "studio" recorded but it was recorded in their home studios, often a converted closet, across the US as 2 of them were on their homes in MN, 2 in TN, and 1 in LA. Then Darren Rust works his magic from afar.

There are many, many LIVE Home Free performance videos posted on RU-vid. You won't be disappointed with them.

The fist to sing was Adam Chance, sword boy is Austin Brown, beardy man is Rob Lundquist, the best singer, by far! My fav cuz he looks just like my son, down to the beard and glasses!

I love Rob's lower tones in this. And Adam just seems to come up with new percussion with every song.

Those castanjets was awesome. Adam is a genius

As a singer and music educator I appreciate the concise, accurate, yet energetic way you explain your observations. As someone who's also sung in an a cappella group I really appreciate YOUR appreciation of its challenges. 😃

The castanets is Adam…the Beat Boxer ‼️❤️‼️. Incredible sounds …the guy is unbelievable ‼️❤️‼️

That was wonderful and adding you looked absolutely gorgeous if only I looked half that good it would scare me

i think the reason i also love chances voice(thats the guy that usually takes over for tim and she called conversational right ? ) cause it just sounds normal without it being meant in a weird way like we got high pitched voices deep bass voices and amazing percussion and while chance can do alot of things his usual singing voice just sounds nicely in the middle which gives alot to their covers

Please listen to Helplessly Hoping!

Their singing and arrangements are always so fantastic, the videos that stand out to me are where they show off their humor. I don't know if they're good for commenting on vocal techniques since they're studio recordings, but they're fun to watch. If you're in the mood for a good time, check out Home Free doing "Never Gonna Give You Up", "Champagne Taste on a Beer Budget" and of course "The Butts Remix".

React to home free when a man loves a women

Please check out Brothers in Arms. Home Free knocks it all the way out of the park!

You should react to their cover of "Never Gonna Give You Up " and "I Swear"

i love them all but adam absolutely blows me away. i have tickets for october and december and really hope this is in their line up!!!😍

I learned about Home Free last month so I'm a new Home Fry. I've been watching a lot of HF vids and reactor's comments. You are the ONLY reactor that noticed the castinets!!! Loved watching your enthusiasm for their phenomenal work!

Please react to anything by Home Free. Also, their tenor 1 did a cover of Etta James "At Last". Would love to see your reaction!

Seriously, they are so good! Spot on harmonies. Please react to something Cimorelli next. It's been so long! Suggestions that you would love are... - Drivers License by Cimorelli (a vocal and harmonic masterpiece) - The Night We Met (acapella) by Cimorelli (you will get chills with the arrangement) - I Don't Deserve It, Unloved, or Italy (all live) by Lisa Cimorelli (the high notes are.. just wow.) - I Am Enough (Piano Version) by Cimorelli (for a fab taste of their original music!) - Atom Bomb by Lauren Cimorelli (her lyrics and melodies never fail to impress) Thank you for your reactions and the thought you put into them!

The amazing thing those castanets, were vocally done by Adam the beatboxer. There is a reason he is a 2x world champion

Loved your Intro! 😆

girl you did not just hit that c3 effortlessly, I LOVED IT!

Love your reactions and analyses! You should check out All About That Bass, and Delta Dawn, as well as When a Man Loves a Woman. Austin is making all the ladies just swoon!

Love Home Free!!❤

These guys are my fav's by far have been waiting for you to do Home Free. There's been a bunch of new stuff you've missed out on during last year. Please everyone get vaccine, it will go away. Thanks Tara.

The best with you Tara is that you are so organic, natural and real!

Helplessly Hoping is one of my favourites please give it a listen

You should listen to "Crazy". Excellent tight harmonies.

I have seen them live and they sounds the same live...super tight...crisp...clear...and funny...always busting on each other!

If you want to hear a deep voice, watch Folsom Prison Blues... the last note Tim hits along with the lighting and the look he gives makes him seem positively evil...

They have a live version of this and it is great

Do "My Mother told me" by VoicePlay!! Its craaazygoood

Your vids are fireeee

This was done during the shut down they each did their parts at their homes and then the production was done buy their long time mixer. They did a lot of songs seperated like this all through covid.

The best socially distanced pirates / crew ever 😄. I am always astounded by the harmonies but it was the castanets that caught my attention, too. Another brilliant percussion sound from Adam Thanks for your reaction

Great reaction as always! Keep up the great work Tara. Thank you for your wholesome content!

Never heard of them before, but that was a really fun song! Thanks

They are so good. I love the theatrics of Austin and the stoicism of Tim. Adam's beatboxing is outstanding. They blow me away all the time. Thanks for a fab reaction. I know you love harmonies so I would suggest you react to the May it Be cover by Violet Orlandi and Malinda. The harmonies are Ethereal

Aren’t they freakin amazeballs!!

That water over spray sound makes you feel like your own a ship..... unbelievable 👍🎶

Excellent intro! Your low note+your voice gave my spine a tingle!

OMG I HAVE BEEN WAITING SO LONG TARA THANK YOU!!!!

Hi Tara Simon, Great Reaction. You and I both loved the bass undercurrent at the beginning. And we loved how each segment notched up the pace a bit. Wow, I really enjoyed this and I listened to it several times. I could do that since you don't drag out long comments that some do :)

Loved your facial expressions. This was a "heart of Covid" separation video. They were spread out from Texas to Minn.

Please react to Sixteen Tons by Geoff Castelucci!

Austin (high tenor) in red with sword studied music theatre. You can tell in lots of videos.

Best Vocal Coach Ever!!❤❤❤❤

I love Tim and his captain Jack Sparrow look, it's really cool! This song keeps playing over and over in my mind since I first heard it, even in my sleep! 😱 I DO Love it!!

New to your channel. Really enjoying it. This is my second favorite Home Free video (How Great Thou Art #1).

1st song is like everyone's getting on board, loading the ship with cargo. The songs, in between, are like the ship is pulling out of the harbor. But the last song.... Last song is like friggin' *_RAMMING SPEED!_*

I LOVE HOME FREE. THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVS. LOVE THE VID❤

You should react to Home Free's Travelin Soldier. Really great harmonies in that song.

Please react to when a man loves a woman by home free, it’s crazy

Their song is used in a lot of Instagram reels on Facebook. Also, note the change in tempo, first part is 100bpm then 110bpm then 125bpm and finally 150bpm. You can adjust a metronome 2 beats above or below the tempo to get each section right.