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Developing this site has cost a great deal of money, and it costs still more to keep it alive
(hosting, domain names, etc). Any help you can offer in offsetting these costs is greatly appreciated.
Programmers API
If you are a programmer, and would like to develop an application for the iPhone, Android smartphone or any other platform, please visit our API page
Tag Teaching Guidelines
Updated Feb 2 2012 Darwin Scheel has compiled and made available his Barbershop Tag Teaching Guidelines for
men and
women
How to Multitrack
Anyone interested in creating their own multitrack recordings should check out the excellent guides we've collected on our Multitrack page.
SmartPhone Apps
Access all the tags on our site from the following smartphone (iPhone, etc) applications:
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Matt Henderson, for designing our site's logo free of charge
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Links
Links to Tag-related and General Barbershop sites
Collection of original tags by Andrew from the Canterbury Plainsmen in New Zealand
The organising body of Barbershop in North America
Nearly 100 selectively chosen Barbershop Tags in both PDF and midi format, with optional 5th/6th parts added, plus links to other music resources and some live recordings of "afterglow" style Tag singing.
Large collection of Barbershop songs and tags, available from the Barbershop Harmony Society
The German Barbershop assosiation.
David Wright is a well-known arranger of Barbershop (and other) music, and was the original compiler of the "125 Classic Tags" booklet, all the tags of which can be found on this website, on the Classic Tags page.
Tag Master Darwin Scheel, creator of Barbershop Tag Teaching Guidelines, has created www.DNSTags.com to post all the Tags that Darwin has collected through the years as well as TagAnalysis Templates and Guidelines for Hosting a Successful Tag Party!
Dean Martin has created an excellent tutorial for anyone wanting to learn how to create a multitrack tag (audio only, not video)
A decent Online Pitchpipe for quick pitch reference.
A new way to build a barbershop quartet! Use QuartetMatchup.com to find a quartet or to find a singer for your missing voice part.
Learning Tracks and tags
An excellent blog full of articles for singers to improve their craft. The author, Dean Martin, also graciously made available the domain barbershoptags.com for this website.
The organising body of Sweet Adelines (female Barbershop) worldwide
96 tag learning tracks (no sheet music scores)
About 50 tags, some with midi files.
Producers of fine learning tracks for a cappella arrangements. Daniel Gillis, the man behind that site, sung all 500 parts of the 125 classic tags found on this site.
This is my You Tube channel. It will soon have many more videos of me singing tags.
The source of all the video clips on this site.
Chat with fellow tag singers and discuss the tags on our Facebook group