I'll be glad to do what I can.
Andy
On Saturday, April 4, 2020, 04:56:20 PM MST, Carolyn Eynon
<carolyndirector@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
HI NIKKI AND CESTHIS IS very easy because I can take the music and assign 4 m
to each singer and then on the last page we all sing the last full chord; TO
NIGHTJohn are you game? NIkki you bring us possibility with Johns research and
time... SO LET ME KNOW AND ILL START WORKING>this is lovely IMAGINEWe can even
do a REWRITE if Eileen wants to get busy, TO NIGHT TO NIGHT ---- ---- -----
---- ---- -----???? I love the idea, NIKKI and JOHNNellie, we will add your
piano to it...Everyone know the key...so use a pitch pipe.... and sing what
part you learned in March...
I want you to all feel comfortable so respond to all in this email please.
REPLY ALLC
On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 4:25 PM Nikki Hellwig <nikki.hellwig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Here’s an example of what celebrities did to sing a song together. I’m assuming
everyone sung the whole song and then it was spliced together. But maybe we can
break it up into sections for the singers. I don’t think anyone right now is
expecting an amazing production to be produced by people since we’re all in
quarantine. So something fun and simple like this while singing “tonight”
should be doable! See the link before for celebrities singing “Imagine”
https://youtu.be/omEDLKS5pbY
Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 1, 2020, at 5:55 PM, John Wanat <johnwanat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Carolyn,
You're the music director. "Tonight" sounds great. If Nellie can get the
accompaniment to me or everyone and we sing to that, it should sound very good.
And be easier to work with. Excellent idea.
John
On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 5:51 PM John Wanat <johnwanat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Carolyn,
You're the music director.
On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 5:19 PM Carolyn Eynon <carolyndirector@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am now zoom capable. with webcam...oh oh, now were in trouble.Stay tuned?
John, the star spangled Banner is a very difficult song to sing in tune because
of the 4 pt men and 4 pt women.as well as Sarah and Harold do not know it,
yet.May I suggest the song TONIGHT from westside. starting with the women.I can
have NELLIE PLAY IT ON HER PIANO, send it to you electronically? and then have
8 people (2 on a part) record.
thanks for GARAGE BAND but I am on a Dell, but have webcam so can make a zoom
meeting when ready.Im grateful for help and eileen can record at my house
.Sheridan could assist, shes a techie too.
im here.C
On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 4:53 PM Eileen Mager <emagereq@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
John —
Sounds like a fine idea — a bit of an adventure, I'd say. And it might turn
out well, after we've gotten into it. I have GarageBand, but have never used
it — it came with the other stuff that came with my Mac. But I'm game to give
it a try, if that seems appropriate.
I also have FaceTime, which I've just used for the first time — not for
singing, but long-distance conversation. It worked fine — we could see and
hear each other quite well. So I would guess that you and I, for example,
could sing something together from our two homes using that, and record it.
See what we get. And when Carolyn has Zoom in hand, that might add some more
possibilities. More parts, from more locations.
I'll check around here, and see what I have that might be useful to you in your
experimenting.
Cheers!— Eileen
On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 3:56 PM John Wanat <johnwanat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Carolyn and others have shared some videos and audio clips of musical groups
who have managed to perform together even though they were physically apart.
I'd like to know if anyone in CES is willing to experiment in doing the same.
Carolyn and I think that if we can put together a performance or more this way,
there would be some nice benefits. First of all, we keep singing together.
Second, we can offer music to those in our audiences where we have their email
addresses. And third, if we get sophisticated enough, perhaps we could produce
a CES channel on Youtube for the duration of the corona season.
How do we do this? I certainly don't have all the answers, but with a little
help, we can get started. Last week I discovered that I had GarageBand on my
MacBook and began to play around with it. GarageBand is an application that
lets you lay down tracks of individual music and combine them. As I am
learning, you can also massage the individual parts a bit to get a more
professional sound.
A few days ago, I took a simple version of Wade in the Water and, using
GarageBand, recorded the bass, the tenor, and the soprano parts separately
using a built-in metronome to coordinate. Then I put them together and they
more or less matched up. This suggested that we could put voices together
though we be apart. I am attaching the MP3 version I produced so you can see
the result. Please don't judge it too harshly; it's just a proof of concept
recording.
Anyway, the next step is to put together voices from separate locations. I
would like to get at least one voice from each SATB group to use their iphone
(or android I think would also work) to record a video of the same song, sung
at the same pace, from the same score. Could I propose we use the
Star-Spangled Banner we pretty much have under our belt? Set a metronome at
100 and start from the "O say" in measure 5 in the score we sing from.
Ideally, we would individually sing to a track of the accompaniment, but for
now let's try singing from the score to the metronome pace.
You would record this as a video, but at this point the sound is more important
than our beautiful faces. In combining the voices, I will strip off the video
portion -- at least for now -- so that I can focus on the audio. Then email it
to me at: johnwanat@xxxxxxxxx I will try to put the voices together and
send you all the combined sound. Then, who knows what would happen. Ideally
we will be able to get the video back in the final product.
I am hoping that there are some in CES who have done something like this before
(Steven, Blair, Ken, Pat?). If so, please let me know. Anyway, if you are
interested, send me a video and I'll get started.
Hopefully,
John
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