Omg. This blew me away. Sterling arrangement and silky sustained singing. The range of emotion and spectrum incredible. Great to see so many men singing with fervour too! 👏👏👏
Stunning. Absolutely stunning. What fabulous stories are wrapped up in the pictures!! Young men just starting their Barbershop lives and beside them much older men who have sung BBS for decades. Very emotional video and soundtrack. Many thanks.
VMChorus I absolutely adore you guys and have always wanted to sing with you. It’s either that or I move to salt lake to sing with MOTAB, lol. Can’t wait to see you guys in December for the greatest snowman!!!
4.34 i love this guy!!!!! Have seen him since I began in barbershop early nineties and he is ALWAYS totally animated, emotive, and a storyteller of the men of Vocal Majority. Awesome job!!
Finally!!!!! Just an amazing performance, guys. So proud of everyone on that stage, especially that guy dead center @ 1:12 (my dad). Can’t wait to see how y’all top this ballad, cause it’s now the Mount Everest of ballads.
@@jeremiahacosta422 It's a Dominant 7th chord with the root in the top voice, 7th immediately below it, 3rd in the middle, and 5th on the bottom. As for its etymology, most barbershoppers will tell you the "Chinese" designation is because the top root and 7th are stacked one whole tone apart, just as they are at the beginning of the tune, "Chopsticks".
At 720p... Thanks. And BTW - are you kidding?!? All of my friends share 1080 or better from their PHONES...! The BHS INTERNATIONAL contest can be viewed at 720p.... Gimme a break. REALLY?!?
I love barbershop as much as everyone else. But I have a question... Is there a point where the harmonies drown out the original melody? It becomes not a rendition of the song, but an exercise in tones and harmonies. And this is my problem with this performance. Technically great. but without the underpinning of the melody, they might as well just be doing harmonizing rifts, using pointless words. IMHO. I repeat, This performance is very well done, and executed. However, I would have preferred a smaller group, say 8, doing the song in barbershop harmony, where they gave more attention to the melody of the song rather than just the harmony. But I'm no expert, just of big fan of the original song who really wanted to hear it in barbershop style.
I appreciate your comment...it exposes a very tricky and technical challenge for frankly, groups of EVERY size. This situation, where the melody can be too subtle, or overtaken by other parts can be observed in a quartet, octet or big beautiful chorus like the VM! It's all about dynamics and balance. It is absolutely true that the melody should be x% more prominent than all other parts. This applies whether the melody is owned by the Lead, then switches to Bass and then Tenor, the other three parts need to adjust accordingly so that the melodic flow is never missing or overpowered. The dynamics (volume range) and balance performing live, especially with a big group is not at all easy. You hear the overall dynamic range in this song, which is phenomenal... but in the middle of all the dynamic range, the melody cannot, or should never be found lacking. To be fair, it may have been better "live" (guaranteed, I've heard VM live several times and it is mind-blowing), but for the argument your point is quite valid regardless! So, yes, to achieve a continual melodic flow, regardless of what part is carrying the melody, should always be slightly prominent. Of course this accepts the arrangers possible deviations from the original melody. Now...if you hear a produced version of this song, where volumes are manipulated on a board, I'm sure these issues become rather moot. The trick is "live"....no easy feat, ever.
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Omg. This blew me away. Sterling arrangement and silky sustained singing. The range of emotion and spectrum incredible. Great to see so many men singing with fervour too! 👏👏👏
great to see the younger men there continuing a great tradition of harmony, such an important part of loving humanity!
Stunning. Absolutely stunning. What fabulous stories are wrapped up in the pictures!! Young men just starting their Barbershop lives and beside them much older men who have sung BBS for decades. Very emotional video and soundtrack. Many thanks.
absolutely stunning. ....to get a group of this size to sustain such a high level of performance is indeed very, very rare.
agreed ;)
Thank you for sharing this video! We are grateful for the support of Barbershoppers!
VMChorus I absolutely adore you guys and have always wanted to sing with you. It’s either that or I move to salt lake to sing with MOTAB, lol. Can’t wait to see you guys in December for the greatest snowman!!!
MEEEE TOOOO! LOL! Is it December yet????
Reaction video to this coming soon!
OMG! Fantastic diction, incredible tone, amazing balance to hear basses like that... FAAABULOUS! KUDOS!
You guys are smooth as buttah!
Just spectacular‼️❤️
Flawless. So many voices reunited in one heart. Bravo.
4:34 - yowww. What a great chord. Thanks, guys.
Magnificent and so much augmented by the faces and body language
Stunning!!! The dynamics, the harmony and the age groups, with one common denominator = the love of singing!!!
Such a clean clear sound, like cool water from a mountain stream. My goodness. My group.
4.34 i love this guy!!!!! Have seen him since I began in barbershop early nineties and he is ALWAYS totally animated, emotive, and a storyteller of the men of Vocal Majority. Awesome job!!
Finally!!!!! Just an amazing performance, guys. So proud of everyone on that stage, especially that guy dead center @ 1:12 (my dad). Can’t wait to see how y’all top this ballad, cause it’s now the Mount Everest of ballads.
An amazing performance - congratulations again to the Vocal Majority
You had the audience in the palm of your hand from the first note! Spine tingling and spectacular as always! Love you guys!
so much love in these men who know how to sing it. I miss you Daddy. we will sing together again I am sure of it
Absolutely Beautiful !!
Amazing! as always- LOVE the build up to 4:38- *oh my*
These guys are great! They also won the epic facial hair achievement award haha!
Amazing..... fantastic
Simply beautiful
stunning
Beautiful dedicated chorus. I love it.
Wow! Just Wow!!!
Just amazing!!! ❤❤
Absolutely incredible! I've never heard anything like it!!!
Hard to realize this is a group I sang with 45 years ago! They got better after I left…
Absolutely spectacular , good mixture of ages, like to see the young people included, is there a set of young twins there?
The chord at 3:31 is super juicy in that context. It’s so rugged and rough and ringy. It’s everything i want in barbershop.
Chinese 7th. It's a barbershop hallmark.
TJ Barranger whats the they Theory behind that? Solfge or numbers.
@@jeremiahacosta422 It's a Dominant 7th chord with the root in the top voice, 7th immediately below it, 3rd in the middle, and 5th on the bottom. As for its etymology, most barbershoppers will tell you the "Chinese" designation is because the top root and 7th are stacked one whole tone apart, just as they are at the beginning of the tune, "Chopsticks".
TJ Barranger Wow, that is really interesting! Thank you man! Where did you learn that?
@@jeremiahacosta422 In barbershop. Where else? ;)
There is only one King Chorus: Vocal Majority.
And for icing, there is only one King Quartet: Dealers Choice.
Any questions?
3:03 That's a nice beard.
It's literally an award-winning beard! xD
no regrets. even now.
At 720p... Thanks. And BTW - are you kidding?!? All of my friends share 1080 or better from their PHONES...! The BHS INTERNATIONAL contest can be viewed at 720p.... Gimme a break. REALLY?!?
Where is the Hamlisch classic?
This version is all over the place.
I love barbershop as much as everyone else. But I have a question... Is there a point where the harmonies drown out the original melody? It becomes not a rendition of the song, but an exercise in tones and harmonies. And this is my problem with this performance. Technically great. but without the underpinning of the melody, they might as well just be doing harmonizing rifts, using pointless words. IMHO. I repeat, This performance is very well done, and executed. However, I would have preferred a smaller group, say 8, doing the song in barbershop harmony, where they gave more attention to the melody of the song rather than just the harmony. But I'm no expert, just of big fan of the original song who really wanted to hear it in barbershop style.
I appreciate your comment...it exposes a very tricky and technical challenge for frankly, groups of EVERY size.
This situation, where the melody can be too subtle, or overtaken by other parts can be observed in a quartet, octet or big beautiful chorus like the VM! It's all about dynamics and balance. It is absolutely true that the melody should be x% more prominent than all other parts. This applies whether the melody is owned by the Lead, then switches to Bass and then Tenor, the other three parts need to adjust accordingly so that the melodic flow is never missing or overpowered. The dynamics (volume range) and balance performing live, especially with a big group is not at all easy. You hear the overall dynamic range in this song, which is phenomenal... but in the middle of all the dynamic range, the melody cannot, or should never be found lacking. To be fair, it may have been better "live" (guaranteed, I've heard VM live several times and it is mind-blowing), but for the argument your point is quite valid regardless!
So, yes, to achieve a continual melodic flow, regardless of what part is carrying the melody, should always be slightly prominent. Of course this accepts the arrangers possible deviations from the original melody.
Now...if you hear a produced version of this song, where volumes are manipulated on a board, I'm sure these issues become rather moot. The trick is "live"....no easy feat, ever.
God, what happened to this classic song? Barely recognize it. Sounds awful as a barbershop harmony piece. The song lost all its energy and zest.
🤔 imagine being this guy ^
I'll bet this dude's a blast at parties.
@@teddykgb3865 U're just jealous!!
@Kristopher Chavez You're too late as usual, I ALREADY DID!! 😛
@Kristopher Chavez Oh wow! I'm shaking in my boots. 🤣 TOOL, TROLL 🤣.Reported you, TWAT!!