Original Barbershop Tag: You Beside My Side
by Jordan Eldredge
A few days ago, I wrote a barbershop tag for my girlfriend Chelsea.
My multitrack of the tag (sung a half step lower than written):
My goal was to write a “bloom” type tag where all voices start on a single unison note, and travel in smooth contrary motion to the final chord. Some great examples of this kind of tag are Cry and Sleepy Time. I took this idea so it’s logical extreme by using almost entirely chromatic contrary motion. In fact, of the melodic intervals in the tag, 19 are half steps, 9 are whole steps and 2 are perfect fourths.
The sheet music: beside_my_side.pdf
The Lilypond file used to generate the .pdf file: beside_my_side.ly
Update:
I made a little video that teaches you all the parts by ear:
You are so sweet. I love these tags and multitracks!
You are also so smart! How cool to have the ability to teach 4 different parts of music.
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I love you.
VIH guys would love to learn this!
[..YouTube..] a nice sounding tag. You are aware that you didn’t get the base line in the third measure. Sounds like no major chord I’ve ever heard.
[..YouTube..] You mean I didn’t sing it like I wrote it? Or I sang it differently in the teaching part of the video and the performance part of the video?
[..YouTube..] You didn’t sing the tag with the pitches that were printed on the musical notation you included when you did the final ttbb take.
[..YouTube..] In the third measure the first counts are major C chords in 3rd inversion. If you listen to it, It is not a mojor sounding chord. I sang it (albeit in a lower key) as you wrote it.
[..YouTube..] You mean I didn’t sing it like I wrote it? Or I sang it differently in the teaching part of the video and the performance part of the video?
[..YouTube..] You mean I didn’t sing it like I wrote it? Or I sang it differently in the teaching part of the video and the performance part of the video?
[..YouTube..] You mean I didn’t sing it like I wrote it? Or I sang it differently in the teaching part of the video and the performance part of the video?
[..YouTube..] You mean I didn’t sing it like I wrote it? Or I sang it differently in the teaching part of the video and the performance part of the video?
[..YouTube..] You mean I didn’t sing it like I wrote it? Or I sang it differently in the teaching part of the video and the performance part of the video?
[..YouTube..] You mean I didn’t sing it like I wrote it? Or I sang it differently in the teaching part of the video and the performance part of the video?
[..YouTube..] You mean I didn’t sing it like I wrote it? Or I sang it differently in the teaching part of the video and the performance part of the video?
[..YouTube..] You mean I didn’t sing it like I wrote it? Or I sang it differently in the teaching part of the video and the performance part of the video?
[..YouTube..] You mean I didn’t sing it like I wrote it? Or I sang it differently in the teaching part of the video and the performance part of the video?
[..YouTube..] You mean I didn’t sing it like I wrote it? Or I sang it differently in the teaching part of the video and the performance part of the video?
[..YouTube..] You mean I didn’t sing it like I wrote it? Or I sang it differently in the teaching part of the video and the performance part of the video?
[..YouTube..] You mean I didn’t sing it like I wrote it? Or I sang it differently in the teaching part of the video and the performance part of the video?
[..YouTube..] You mean I didn’t sing it like I wrote it? Or I sang it differently in the teaching part of the video and the performance part of the video?
[..YouTube..] You mean I didn’t sing it like I wrote it? Or I sang it differently in the teaching part of the video and the performance part of the video?
[..YouTube..] You mean I didn’t sing it like I wrote it? Or I sang it differently in the teaching part of the video and the performance part of the video?
[..YouTube..] You mean I didn’t sing it like I wrote it? Or I sang it differently in the teaching part of the video and the performance part of the video?
[..YouTube..] You mean I didn’t sing it like I wrote it? Or I sang it differently in the teaching part of the video and the performance part of the video?
[..YouTube..] You mean I didn’t sing it like I wrote it? Or I sang it differently in the teaching part of the video and the performance part of the video?
[..YouTube..] You mean I didn’t sing it like I wrote it? Or I sang it differently in the teaching part of the video and the performance part of the video?
[..YouTube..] You mean I didn’t sing it like I wrote it? Or I sang it differently in the teaching part of the video and the performance part of the video?
[..YouTube..] You mean I didn’t sing it like I wrote it? Or I sang it differently in the teaching part of the video and the performance part of the video?
[..YouTube..] You mean I didn’t sing it like I wrote it? Or I sang it differently in the teaching part of the video and the performance part of the video?
[..YouTube..] You mean I didn’t sing it like I wrote it? Or I sang it differently in the teaching part of the video and the performance part of the video?
[..YouTube..] You mean I didn’t sing it like I wrote it? Or I sang it differently in the teaching part of the video and the performance part of the video?
[..YouTube..] You mean I didn’t sing it like I wrote it? Or I sang it differently in the teaching part of the video and the performance part of the video?
[..YouTube..] You mean I didn’t sing it like I wrote it? Or I sang it differently in the teaching part of the video and the performance part of the video?
[..YouTube..] You mean I didn’t sing it like I wrote it? Or I sang it differently in the teaching part of the video and the performance part of the video?
[..YouTube..] You mean I didn’t sing it like I wrote it? Or I sang it differently in the teaching part of the video and the performance part of the video?
[..YouTube..] You mean I didn’t sing it like I wrote it? Or I sang it differently in the teaching part of the video and the performance part of the video?
You mean I didn’t sing it like I wrote it? Or I sang it differently in the teaching part of the video and the performance part of the video?
[..YouTube..] very nice job!
[..YouTube..] very nice job!
[..YouTube..] very nice job!
[..YouTube..] very nice job!
very nice job!