Sounds fun but I am still trying to get all the tech stuff to work. Borrowed a
webcam but audio is not working well
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On Apr 4, 2020, at 4:56 PM, Carolyn Eynon <carolyndirector@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
HI NIKKI AND CES
THIS 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 NIGHT
John are you game? NIkki you bring us possibility with Johns research and
time... SO LET ME KNOW AND ILL START WORKING>
this is lovely IMAGINE
We can even do a REWRITE if Eileen wants to get busy, TO NIGHT TO NIGHT ----
---- ----- ---- ---- -----????
I love the idea, NIKKI and JOHN
Nellie, 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 ALL
C
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
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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
--
Carolyn Eynon~Founding Artistic Director
Carolyn Eynon Singers
480-529-2630
"Singing together connects people"
--
Carolyn Eynon~Founding Artistic Director
Carolyn Eynon Singers
480-529-2630
"Singing together connects people"
