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The ABCs Backwards

Inspired to further acts of nerdome by the encouraging comments on my last post, I decided to learn to do something I have been thinking of doing ever since I saw Paul Kim do it at a party. Sing the alphabet song backwards. Not just sing the letters backwards, but the notes as well. So last night I sat down, figured out how it would go, and started memorizing it. This morning, to nerd it up just a little bit more, I leaned to sing it while showing the solfege using hand signs. I then took my new camcorder into Golden Gate Park and recorded myself doing it. The park has the advantage of having actual sunlight while still having some privacy and quiet. Also, it’s pretty. Here are the results:

Due to a bug in iMovieHD I was unable to reverse the video so you could here the original melody, but here is the audio reversed:

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New Video Camera: Take Me Out to the Ball Game

I got a new Flip camcorder from Woot.com yesterday. To test it, I filmed myself singing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” off by one word. By starting the song on a fictional pickup note, the alignment of the words and music gets off. So, I run out of words before I finish singing the melody which leaves the melody on the unresolved solfeggio “ti”.

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My first barbershop multi-track: Love Letters

On Chamber Singers tour to ACDA some other guys and myself (currently called Four Sweaty Guys in a Practice Room) started singing some barbershop tags, which lead Paul to show me this great online collection in .pdf format. Now that we are back, I had a chance to play though a bunch of them on the piano with Jason Pano, and we found this gem: “Love Letters Straight From the Heart”

The .pdf file says it was written by Fred King in 1981 and was sung by the Pros And Cons.

I thought it would be ideal canidate for my first barbershop multi-track. So, here you all go:

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