wow... thank you everyone for all your replies and comments, Jon, Brett, Sandra, Trisha, BB, Tom, Jim... you make a newcomer feel very welcome on this board!! ...
... Viveka wrote in part: Even when I hear their voice clearly, the note is kind of fuzzed into the chord and I cannot pick the tone!! sometimes I suspect that...
Viveka, to hear the bari in an excellent quartet, buy a CD by Metropolis - I suppose any they have will do. Their standing arrangement places the Bari on the...
Hey all - I am glad mentioned the topic of quartet standing arrangement. I would like feedback on why everyone thinks a particular standing arrangement works...
Trisha For most of my 'shopping career, the "standard" lineup was bari, bass, lead, tenor (or the reverse). I always thought the lead-bass duet was crucial,...
Hey Jon- now you have me curious. Who were the ladies in The Q? Thanks- Amy in Fresno<CA ===== There is no "way to happiness". Happiness IS the way!...
I would like some hints to train for ear dominance. I stand to the left of my lead, but I am left ear dominant, which means I hear the bari much better, and...
... Sandi, I am similarly endowed <G>. That is the reason that we stand with my left ear toward the lead. That is a fairly common positioning. audience Tenor,...
Sandra, Have you tried switching places with the lead? Stand Bari, Lead, Bass, Tenor? I discovered recently that I had the same issue in my quartet. We were ...
Trisha (& all) My experience has been that switching standing positions very often leads to misconceptions on what is best for the quartet. Any time you...
HotShots have tried several standing arrangements over the past year and have finally decided that we sound best when we all face forward. ;-) Paul Bass -...
Yeah, but is that what your LISTENERS think? Tom Tongueincheek stifling, barely ... From: "Paul Agnew" <bluejet@...> To: <BBSBasses@yahoogroups.com> ...
It all depends on whether you're going for overtones or undertones! Sing-cerely & Humm-bly, John Elving mailto:leaderman@... Rapid City, South Dakota...
This may come across as amusing (which I wouldn't mind), but it has its serious side too. What if your quartet has all four members with either left or right...
One of the reasons we switched to Bass, Lead, Bari, Tenor, is that a coach told us she could hear the Bari in that arrangement and when the Bari was on the end...
One of the dirty little secrets of coaching is that rearranging the quartet or chorus almost always results in a better sound temporarily because each singer...
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Amy and SAI's everywehre... you asked who was in the new quartet Q -- the one everyone will know is the one I said switched from Bari to Bass... Betty (lucket)...
Hmmmmm..........from what Phil writes, guess we need to "fix" our Baritone!!! Ha! Being a good ol' West Texas quartet, we always have trouble with vowels....
Wow! I was born in Tahoka and lived in Lubbock for 15 yrs. Trivia... The Singing Plainsmen (Lubbock BBS Chptr) was the first chartered chapter in the state of...
From: Tim Lowrance Subject: Re: Standing Arrangement Wow! I was born in Tahoka and lived in Lubbock for 15 yrs. Trivia... The Singing Plainsmen (Lubbock BBS...
Please note that I will always observe our Yahoo home page warning about making jokes about baritones (bless 'em), and I would NEVER suggest that these viola...
Amy, did you ever see my reply about the new Q quartet? Jon Wagner, The Orginal Padman Post & Pack / A-Kwik Print Place 9648 U.S. Hwy 301 So Riverview FL...
Way back on 12/6, Trisha Darby wrote about going thru 3 Leads until their quartet found a Strong voice. I know of a male quartet that has done this same thing...
There's an old story about Bob Johnson putting a quartet on stage and adding basses. They claim no matter how many basses there were they didn't over-power...
... Yes, Jon. And thanks! ... Singing low and lob\vin' it- Amy in Fresburg,CA ===== You cannot climb El Capitan if you leave one foot on the ground....
Hey guys - Good questions about how loud the Lead should be. When we were having trouble finding a "good" Lead, the three of us sang very softly to try and...
Echo Quartet is not ready to make a CD, but I'm curious what we might expect to spend in such an endevour. Could some of you with experience in this area shed...
I am new to singing bass because I used to be a bari. As a bari I'd sing lead with my guitar and since I could transpose songs to lower keys, it really wasn't...
