Main Street Explains Barbershop

let's use a little bit of that song actually they just kind of describe the barbershop style and just a little bit you know because I mentioned that it's four-part harmony all the time and we just call it for VAR me which but it's really a melody with three to 300 parts around yeah so we just use the course of that songs melody we're gonna play that muskrat ramble tune you've never heard play join in the big parade too late join in the big parade good so here's the big thing about the melody and this is something that you should remember even though you were like that's right I have a very difficult time of words but the melody is what you can usually your ear picks up really really easy the phrase an earworm but an earworm is a little melodic phrase or something like that doesn't really hurt in any way but it gets you here and it kind of sticks in your ear you know I'm saying it's something you're going to recall should I give your I mean that just it's not really much of a song but that little melody continues just kind of wrap around in your head it's just it's an earworm it keeps kind of flying in there alright so hopefully [Music] - you never play so the melody for any particular song is usually sung in barbershop by what we call the lead you know so equate it to the lead singer if you will like the lead singer front singer in a band of it of any kind now I particularly don't consider myself a front singer elite singer solo singer so to speak I just like to sing melody in this configuration okay so that's again we call ourselves elite it's usually from a from a men's perspective movement and ladies perspective as well it'd be like a 10 or 2 range if you want to think of that so the second soprano range I'm actually a little bit more the first altona translates to and then below that is our trusty base which aspires a great base don't you think he's a great base you haven't even heard some of his low notes yeah but he doesn't sing low that's before but the singer is usually what would be your base to in a choral from a choral standpoint you usually always your lowest voice underneath alright and they always harmonize [Music] [Music] [Music] you have the foundation for listen more time and try and listen how these two parts panel a so into another you sort of the melody as a melody but from a harmony part standpoint it kind of adheres [Music] [Music] you find a lot of straight tone in cinema broad but because it gives the voices and opportunity the chords an opportunity to lasso together okay so that's what always happens melody singer you got your bass singer along the way the tenor singer represents using the first tenor role from a choral standpoint is usually always singing above the melody at times though in barbershop excuse me the tenor singer will float below the melody depending on where the range of the melody basically is okay but in this case so the three parts see how that kind of works from the standpoint that the tenors always kind of floating on top they're you know thinking making almost like a little duet feeling I've got the melody going the tenor is kind of like this that'll do it which sees the baritone part we call the bark the baritone part it's it's similar range to actually it crosses over second tenor range and and more traditional lyric baritone range for from a choral standpoint because and the reason why it's all of those things you know in a choral setup you'd have pretty much these four parts going by a t1 t2 baritone bass they pretty much stay in their zones stay in their legs right what ends up happening in the barbershop is you get this a lot okay you got the time right at the big part that's always saying all the time you have melody in baritone that crisscross essentially right they share they share a register which is why when you if you even look at a sorry don't be two people start playing Roberts everything on the page you've got the trouble clef which represents you're leaving tender your base cut which represents your bass in the baritone but this clef up here the treble clef is 8va so what ends up happening is you have this a lot all right so people who sit down I could play this if they start playing on open octaves which is where we would say no like I got an A therefore the more difficult time because in the cross forcing but to give you an idea we call as I said the the baritone part kind of like the garbage part because from a tenor say well you can hear how it always kind of harmonizes in a nice duet right bass parts always foundational underneath melodies melody baritones just kind of out there [Music] [Applause] [Music] just wise like those first four ports [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we finally got to try it there as we got into muskrat and then r able to for the others our four-part chords which is what makes a barbershop it's so exciting right so much of choral music which we all know and love right it's centered around triads right triads 135 right or but that little dominant seven takes us down a different harmonic path altogether [Music] you never see join the bee here that kind of circles around in a way again from a melody simply like melodies going and how the harmony parts lead us along the way so that's kind of a little quick little demonstration of just how the style itself works right because that's a really really important thing any unique thing so many singers are just singers meaning they're people who might just like to sing but singers are and should be musicians yeah right yeah so there's the musicians who are the people who play for the singers so there's nothing because it'll it'll help you with your singing but it'll also give you a frame of reference from a standpoint of the building blocks of music which is really really important don't make your singing more interesting if you look at that look at this puzzle piece I know what all this means this is not some sort of Mayan or you can hire Olympics right I mean all these things have a purpose and the reason to then bring this this is just a map to some sort of hopeful artistic expression if you don't really understand the clues in the map it'll be further from the possibility so as singers I'll play piano in order in order to learn how to read music although that's a great way to start piano guitar those kinds of things but for me I mean I played in band as I as I grew up I actually was not involved in my high school music program because I wasn't barber shop but thankfully I played trumpet in band and so that's helped me especially as like a studio session singer where I'm going in and admiring does a lot of this as well a lot of choral demo work for how Leonard publishing so I mean we'll sing through anywhere from 10 to 12 charts every day being done in less than 18 hours and that's for demo purposes we'd be able to do that if I could it also gives me a greater appreciation of what the arranger what the original writer of the piece was hopefully looking at trying to create from his musical

Channel: Rogue Valley Harmonizers

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Keywords: Main Street, Barbershop, Deconstructed, Tony De Rosa, Rogue Valley Harmonizers, Eagle Point High School

Id: EXQN1SUl1To

Length: 13min 3sec (783 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 13 2018