Mother's/Father's Day Tag
Young women or children's voices version (aka "Wishing You a Happy Mother's (or Father's) Day")
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| Date Posted: | Tue, 1 Apr 2014 |
| Posted By: | JoelRea | More from this user |
| Key written in: | B♭ Major |
| How many parts: | 4 |
| Type: | Female Barbershop (incl. SAI, HI, etc) |
| Lyrics: | Wishing you a happy Mother's Day: Have a great day! (or "Father's" as appropriate) |
| Comments: | This Tag and the male version are intended for youth (young women and children in this case, young men in the case of the male version) to sing to mothers on Mother's Day, and/or to fathers on Father's Day. The idea is for Sweet Adelines / Harmony Inc. singers or Barbershoppers to offer to teach this tag to the young women or children or young men in their church congregations or other organizations that would typically meet on Sundays, and then the youth would perform the tag to all of the mothers or fathers of the church or other group on the appropriate day (or the nearest day to it, whenever the group actually celebrates that day). Tagmaster Joe Liles wrote the original tag “Let's All Sing” for the Jan/Feb 2014 issue of The Harmonizer. Yours truly had earlier, two years ago, adapted a tuning exercise from another issue of The Harmonizer (which I'll likely also be uploading) and had the idea of altering its lyrics for Mother's Day, and actually did this at my Church (I'll post more on that in the comments). When I saw Mr. Liles's tag, I realized that it could make for an even better, even easier-to-learn-and-teach tag for this purpose. I contacted Mr. Liles and he wholeheartedly agreed to grant permission for this, and also contributed considerably to the new lyrics (even though he credits me for them in the sheet music .PDF, he did at least as much as I did on those). A quick note about the learning tracks: they're done with Virtual Singer, which is low-end synthetic voice singing software. They may not be pleasant to listen to, but the tuning (including Barbershop-specific per-note microtuning) and timing are much more accurate than the average human could do, and the purpose of learning tracks is to teach. For the “Other Parts 1-4” tracks, I uploaded instrumental versions (Bass through Tenor, respectively). These use a “reed organ” sound that has no vibrato (I do add a bit of delayed vibrato in the Lead for both synthetic singing voice and the reed organ instrumental) nor chorus nor other such effects that obscure pitch, is sustained with a subtle attack so that the timing is easy to hear, and is rich in harmonics making it easier to hear the blending of the chords. Having instrumental as well as vocal tracks makes following the Giallombardo Method (http://scotianaires.ca/resources/Song%20Learning%20Method.pdf) more feasible, since one can learn the note pitches with the right brain separately from learning the lyrics with the left brain. |
Attributions
Arranger
Joe Liles
Year: 2013
Purchase this arrangement here
unknown
Made famous by
The Harmonizer (Jan/Feb)
barbershop.org/resources/the-harmonizer.html
Year: 2014
Learning tracks sung by
Virtual Singer
myriad-online.com/
