Nov 20
Barbershop
Tonight my friend and fellow baritone Josh Beld came over and naturally, things eventually devolved to multitracking babershop tags. After attempting three different tags, only the first and simplest ended up being suitable for sharing. This was Josh’s first attempt at multitrack recording and he is already better than me. Hopefully this will be the first of many.
When It’s Sleepy Time Down South:
- Baritone and Lead: Jordan Eldredge
- Bass and Tenor: Josh Beld
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Nov 14
Barbershop
I have recently observed, on Youtube, a very interesting method of turning any barbershop tag into a jazzy eight part tag: simply double each part a perfect fifth higher. Or, said another way, have a second quartet simultaneously sing the same tag a fifth above.
Despite everything I was taught in college, I have been curious to try this myself. However, due to sound bleed-through from my upstairs neighbors, I can’t really record in my apartment these days. So I multitracked this one tonight in my car on my Zoom H4
. Although I am sure I looked quite suspicious, I think it was worth it.
You can hear the original four part arrangement here.
I present to you “In Dixie Land Where I Was Born” from David Wright’s collection: Classic Tags for Men’s Voices in parallel fifths:
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Update: I have typeset the complete octet in the key of “C” as a pdf file and also generated a midi file.
Aug 21
Music
I recorded this song as a surprise for my wonderful girlfriend Chelsea.
As far as I can tell, this song is originally by one of my very favorite musical groups: The Flamingos. I heard it on their album I Only Have Eyes For You and thought it would be the perfect one to try to record. After hours and hours of transcription, recording, rerecording and level-twiddling, it’s finally presentable.
For Chelsea: An a cappella version of “That’s Why I Love You” by the Flamingos:
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Jul 5
Music
With Chelsea (my girlfriend) out of town, I decided to treat myself to a movie for the Fourth of July. After the movie, I sat in my car in the parking garage and decided to improvise/record a little song on my portable multitracking device. In my typical fashion it ended up being 5 tracks, only 16 seconds long, and about it’s self. Hopefully one day I’ll be able to write real songs. Hopefully.
For Chelsea: “Parking Garage”
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Jul 4
Music
Yesterday, I was at Donut World drinking a coffee, eating a buttermilk-bar and missing my girlfriend, when this little love song popped into my head. I quickly scrawled it on the back of a piece of paper I found in my pocket, went home and recorded it.
For Chelsea: “Our Love Will Last As Long”
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