There’s something incredibly wholesome about a farmer being very excited about singing in his grain bin. And it’s hilarious that so many people have been in one before.
It's not hilarious to think many ppl.have benn in a grain bin We still feed the world and the food and grains dont jump from field to shelf magically. That's farm country hun.
It's my understanding that Bethel College is a Mennonite institution. I suspect that many of the performers in this ensemble come from a rural background.
I grew up in a city, never lived in the country, but I've still visited for education/during vacation/on field trips/to visit distant relatives or friends of friends etc etc. And when you do visit someone with a grain bin or a silo that happens to be empty or nearly empty, yeah people tend to show you them. I've been in at least a couple.
Yeah the tenor's get the glory but the bass boys get the girls. Unless a tenor goes crazy high nobody reacts. Yet it's increasingly rare to hear people sing bass, so when you do the reactions are "OH I Love that bass!" In singing as a part of the worship team at church when the opportunity presents itself to go into the E2 - D2 range I go for it. edit: As confirmation on that. Just look at the comments. Soprano on point, Alto gotta love that harmony. Tenor hiding in the clouds per usual. Bass killing it. Every vocal part nailed it. Yet who gets the reactions... bass.
@@garygsp3 Oh chill. Ever heard of the Three Tenors? The 'bass boys' don't get the girls, the good guys do, whatever part they happen to sing. I think if my husband could sing (he absolutely can't) he would be either a tenor or baritone.
Umm, actually, let’s not... excessive echo and reverberation just creates vocal mud. You’ll note they slowed down (massively) because they just couldn’t hear themselves or hear the beat because of the monster echo...
Just wanna acknowledge how challenging it is for a choir to enunciate in a setting like that and the fact that all of the words are articulated so clearly is a testament to their discipline, skill, and hard work as a group.
Very true! I've sang in a pretty empty hall (lot's of reverb) and it's often very hard to listen to ourselves and getting out of sync wasn't rare. I can't imagine singing there with even more reverb..
Of course the group has some crazy ears/control to pull off something like this, but it's their clear connection with the director that made this REALLY work I'm sure.
@@LiMCRiMZ You're right. In loud/echoey/exceptionally dry place where we can't hear ourselves, we need to really trust our conductor. At that time though, even our conductor had some problem perceiving the tempo because of the echo. In this video, the conductor might wore IEM to keep track of the tempo which now I remembered ours also wear when we performed right by an orchestra.
That bass was elevated in that grain bin. Really pushed it forward to the ear that was listening for it after noticing it for the first time. Really blended well in the circular resonance chamber of that bin.
I was in chorus in high school and we has a bass who, though a bit skinny, sounded like he had his diaphragm surgically removed and replaced with an 18-inch woofer!! You had to hear this kid back in '85! His resonance was superhuman!!
I'll go you one better than that. Imagine this recorded with one of those binaural heads / mic setups used for AMSR videos. Full 3D sound, like being there.
karrasue , I did. But of the two, the words are far more important.......IF the words are scriptural. God’s Words, whether spoken, or sung, are words spoken by God to each of us. Therefore His Words take top priority. Amen?
We can finally hear the bass vocalists over the sopranos each time without the usual strain to even identify them! All choirs should do this at least once!
This song is usually sung with each verse getting faster and faster. I was wondering what they would do with all that reverb! The choice was made to keep it slow, which, to me, was brilliant, really let the notes ring out and blend like they should. I loved it!
Honestly, it can be hard to sing quickly with a lot of reverb. The echo hits your ears right as you are trying to hit your next note and it can really mess you up.
I think if they had of sung it faster and faster it would have been enough echo to drowned themselves out ... Like you said keeping it slow probably reduced enough echo and reverb to make it as clear as possible ..
Starting at 2:40 the bass comes in. Wow. Fact, the base line is accentuated like I rarely hear. Avi Kaplan comes close to this but this is a choir! My hypothesis is that the high metal roof accentuates the longer wavelengths produced by the lower notes thus gives great acoustic power to a part we rarely hear with such verve. Basso Profundo!
I think the crazy part is they're not even singing extremely low (D#2 I think was their lowest), they're just singing well enough that it *seems* deeper than it actually is.
@@esthermiller2713 As I went down in the river to pray Studying about that good old way And who shall wear the starry crown Good Lord, show me the way! O sisters, let's go down, Let's go down, come on down O sisters, let's go down Down in the river to pray As I went down in the river to pray Studying about that good old way And who shall wear the robe and crown Good Lord, show me the way! O brothers, let's go down Let's go down, come on down Come on, brothers, let's go down Down in the river to pray As I went down in the river to pray Studying about that good old way And who shall wear the starry crown Good Lord, show me the way! O fathers, let's go down Let's go down, come on down O fathers, let's go down Down in the river to pray
Duane Ruth-Heffelbower, is there actually equipment for measuring that, I mean besides just listening and observing your digital wristwatch or stopwatch? Something that pinpoints the length of reverberation down to tenths or even hundredths of a second?
The usual method is to clap your hands and measure how long it takes for the sound to die away. In this case I listened for a distinct sound that would serve the purpose. My living room, which has a vaulted ceiling and hardwood floor, has a bit less than two seconds, even though it is a great room to sing in.
Why? What effect could a song possibly have on dead grain? Couldn’t make out any lyrics it was so muddied. You religious types are living in a fantasy world, I’m certain at this point. I hope it works out for you. 😂😂😂😂
I've seen this with a church thing on the edge of the city. We lived a few doors up eons ago and of a night when the hymns were sung (no instruments) you could look along all the back decks and everyone was out listening to the harmonies
This song was played at my mothers funeral in August. This was in my recommended today. Sometimes all it takes is a grain bin video to remind you your loved ones are watching over you. ❤
Sorry to hear about your mom. God works in mysterious ways and sometimes all it takes is a RUclips recommendation to know that your loved ones are just a thought away. God bless.
@BeeCharma So sorry to hear you've lost your mom. Mine has been gone almost 26 years now, and it still hurts. I hope, some four years out now, that you're doing okay.
Imagine the choir director bringing this up. CD: “Ok guys I’ve got a new performance lined up. I’m really really excited and can’t wait to see what y’all can do.” Choir: “Awesome!! Where’s it at?!” CD: “A grain bin.” Choir: .......... 😐 “Whut.”
McKenna Neff if you love bass like me get a load of this! ruclips.net/video/o8qu4OOQ_Dc/видео.html It’s a singing technique called oktavism, other low singing techniques are growls and subharmonics, those are very popular as well
But then the video would have no sound... (I get your point, but obviously mics were used to record this; you mean no amplification was needed in the grain bin. I should shut up now.)
"I doubt a faster tempo would not have done so well"... You said the opposite of what you meant. Also microphones were needed. That's how you're listening to the recorded voices.
I have an old vinyl album a flute player recorded under the domes of the Taj Mahal in India. IIRC the reverberations last 20 seconds. The music on the album is other-worldly! A similar sound could probably have been had in this bin.
I would bet the microphones being used did not even BEGIN to catch to depth of the accoustics. What was caught on the recording however, was awe inspiring.
AMEN!!! The Bethel College Choir was excellent, and the base was absolutely amazing. The singing and recording of this precious hymn in a grain bin was an awesome idea. ✝️ 🎙️🎤🎶🎶
Well... As a Native Kansan, Hutchinson, this is all dear to me. I've sung in bins to bless them many times, and I greatly enjoyed seeing this beautiful song being sung in a fashion most familiar to me
I live in Wichita Kansas and I often have wondered what the sound would be like if I sang in one of these. I am passionate about singing and even sang in WSU's madrigal choir for a couple years, even have videos here on RUclips! This video made my heart soar.
@@courtneygrier2015 Keep singing and find some locals during Harvest season. Soft and melodic tones are best given the metallic reverberation, shrilly noises will fry a microphone if the sound bounces too hard Or even old Warehouses and Mills have some buildings with oddly spectacular accustics
kaddis01, but my advice to you, sir, is.......NEVER EVER play in a silo!!!!! People generally like to be able to make out the WORDS,........or is that no longer a desire???!!!
Esther Miller 1st of all...not a "sir." 2nd of all...just enjoy it!! I could make out the words fine. Perhaps because I know the song by heart, but I was simply enjoying they sound they were making. Great music isn't always perfect.
kaddis01, please accept my apologies. There was no way I could tell which gender you are. And you are correct in saying music can’t always be expected to be perfect. But I like to be able to understand the words as they are sung. 😉
Esther Miller Why are you telling me tho?!? I didn't record this. I said I like it. Your inability to understand the singers has nothing to do with me. Make that comment on your own. Don't tack it to my post. That's just odd.
Todd Haynes if you love bass like me get a load of this! ruclips.net/video/o8qu4OOQ_Dc/видео.html It’s a singing technique called oktavism, other low singing techniques are growls and subharmonics, those are very popular as well
Very interesting you are always coming up with something neat to do on your farm. That had the sound amazing standing there. Hope you have an amazing day
These lovely people are praising the God that saved my son in law from cancer, that saved my son in a road accident, that found a heart doctor to operate on my grandsons heart. How do you say " Thank you" to a God that can do that and more..? Move up folks , make space for a very thankful grandad!!
I have listened to this multiple times. The sound is so pure. Somehow I can’t help but think this is just a tiny smidge of what it will be like listening to the angels singing in heaven. It’s almost overwhelming. ♥️
Trombone started out at a bit faster tempo but when choir started it was the perfect tempo. wow... no amplification needed. Whoever thought to do this... THANK YOU! What a wonderful collab. I have listened to this on repeat no less than 30 times now.....simply beautiful. Thank you!!!
Imagine working at the farm and not knowing they were doing this. And you're having a TERRIBLE DAY because you're going through a tough time. You walk past this this silo and hear this. Bet it would uplift anyone
@@McPhersonBassMaster of course! I've always loved the sound of a really good bass in a choir. To me, that sound brings the whole choir together and rounds out the sound beautifully.
Oh, i guess those bas notes would not be so amazing if you were not in a choir, yourself? I guess vanity has to be involved in every aspect of our lives, as a footnote "the pasta dish, was very tasty (having cooked pasta in the past, myself - i also have a selfie of me actually being in the kitchen!)" Yes, it sounds funny, actually! :)
@@grandprime9026 it has nothing to do with vanity, it was a preface of my admiration of the beautiful notes being sung as it's hard for a lot of men who sing bass to match up so well with the other basses as the notes are so deep and robust. I mentioned that I was a choir girl so that the men knew that I knew how hard they work to create that beautiful, rich, deep sound. So no, it has nothing to so with vanity.
@@grandprime9026 on top of that they are also fighting to hear one another in the highly echoing grain bin and therefore have to be very very in tune to listen for one another. So this is pure admiration, the whole choir was absolutely beautiful.
I had to go back to this this morning. I have just started my day with this. Then I decided to play it just once more before breakfast. ...then just one more time. ...Then again. Then I got up but came back because you have one bass that hits the bottom so eloquently. I really wanted to focus in on that guy. Then one more time just for good measure. At this rate, I will starve for want of breakfast or even a cup of coffee. They will find my depleted body at my 'puter with my hand at my mouse. But, to the Bethel College Choir -- what a celestial way to go. A beautiful choir to send me off, and surely one on heaven's side to receive me. God is profoundly and boundlessly good. Thank you.
Except it won’t be a handful of people, a thousand people, or even billions of people. It’ll be GREAT MULTITUDES of people! Can’t even begin to imagine what that’ll sound like! 🤗🙏
My mom who is now 90 grew up at moundridgr Kansas and graduated from bethel in 1949 she found this video amazing and entertaining thank you for posting it
Tim Jenne if you love bass like me get a load of this! ruclips.net/video/o8qu4OOQ_Dc/видео.html It’s a singing technique called oktavism, other low singing techniques are growls and subharmonics, those are very popular as well
Absolutely beautiful and heavenly, I am really impressed, I would never have thought that the acoustics of that structure would lend itself to such clarity. A big word of thanks to all those that participated in this remarkable performance.
Remember everyone, a good choir is an even better team. Each member relies upon each other to practice and care for the music they sing. It's not just the basses, sopranos, etc. it's everyone if any one of those sections were missing, it wouldn't be as fulfilling of a song.
A Life Long memory For You all . The Acoustics are Over the top and when The Baritone Vocals came inline the Sound if from a Gift from Heaven Only. This is now a True Saved Video
Its like this in Austin capital. Was there when a chior was singing. The acoustics are amazing. In a grain bin with no obstruction, its simply amplified.
Nice acoustics can and truly a talented choir. If I may it's always frustrating to hear a folk song done so formally...I don't know how to say what I mean. It sounds uppity, I think it's the diction. I'm putting this under the Alison Krauss comment because the oh brother version was every bit as beautifully sung without being like that. But those basses really rumbled. This whole thing was a great idea.
There’s something incredibly wholesome about a farmer being very excited about singing in his grain bin. And it’s hilarious that so many people have been in one before.
It's not hilarious to think many ppl.have benn in a grain bin
We still feed the world and the food and grains dont jump from field to shelf magically. That's farm country hun.
It's my understanding that Bethel College is a Mennonite institution. I suspect that many of the performers in this ensemble come from a rural background.
Shit's expensive man. And once you fill it, you can't do stuff like this.
@@IanZainea1990 I wonder why you can’t do it once it’s filled with 10 metric tons of grain? 🤔
I grew up in a city, never lived in the country, but I've still visited for education/during vacation/on field trips/to visit distant relatives or friends of friends etc etc. And when you do visit someone with a grain bin or a silo that happens to be empty or nearly empty, yeah people tend to show you them. I've been in at least a couple.
This is one of the reasons the old cathedral churches were built the way they were...the acoustics
Mary T, that probably played a role in their design
Thank you, Mary.
Look up Tim Foust from the acappella band Home Free and...brace yourself 😂
Music! Light coming into the worlds👍👍
Yes, the acoustics reminded me of the old Gregorian chant.
can we all just give huge props the the wicked deep bass they got
I was literally about the comment this! The bass’ are amazing. You can really hear them well at 3:00
Oh my lord that bass. Absolutely stunning.
Yeah the tenor's get the glory but the bass boys get the girls. Unless a tenor goes crazy high nobody reacts. Yet it's increasingly rare to hear people sing bass, so when you do the reactions are "OH I Love that bass!" In singing as a part of the worship team at church when the opportunity presents itself to go into the E2 - D2 range I go for it.
edit: As confirmation on that. Just look at the comments. Soprano on point, Alto gotta love that harmony. Tenor hiding in the clouds per usual. Bass killing it. Every vocal part nailed it. Yet who gets the reactions... bass.
@@garygsp3 Oh chill. Ever heard of the Three Tenors? The 'bass boys' don't get the girls, the good guys do, whatever part they happen to sing. I think if my husband could sing (he absolutely can't) he would be either a tenor or baritone.
he is the nearest to the mic though
It must have bin a nice experience.
Arthur Harrison, not a grain of doubt!!
Corny ☺️
mjbonehunter Ah shucks, you beat me to it.
OMG! Y'all are hillarious!! Lol 😂😂😂 I am not that talented to come up with any great replys! 😞
Thanks for making me laugh! 👍
Thats Nice!
Let us decree, that from here on out, all choral performances or recordings must take place in that grain bin.
Specifically or just a grain bin in general?
Umm, actually, let’s not... excessive echo and reverberation just creates vocal mud. You’ll note they slowed down (massively) because they just couldn’t hear themselves or hear the beat because of the monster echo...
Yes!
It’s novel, yes, but not really “good” for anything other than chant (ie: music written for spaces with tons of reverb).
No grain, just singers! Beautiful Folks!
Just wanna acknowledge how challenging it is for a choir to enunciate in a setting like that and the fact that all of the words are articulated so clearly is a testament to their discipline, skill, and hard work as a group.
Very true! I've sang in a pretty empty hall (lot's of reverb) and it's often very hard to listen to ourselves and getting out of sync wasn't rare. I can't imagine singing there with even more reverb..
Of course the group has some crazy ears/control to pull off something like this, but it's their clear connection with the director that made this REALLY work I'm sure.
@@LiMCRiMZ You're right. In loud/echoey/exceptionally dry place where we can't hear ourselves, we need to really trust our conductor. At that time though, even our conductor had some problem perceiving the tempo because of the echo. In this video, the conductor might wore IEM to keep track of the tempo which now I remembered ours also wear when we performed right by an orchestra.
Very true. And on some recordings even the best of choirs sometimes sound like mush and are almost unintelligible.
With several seconds of echo? Yeah.
imagine, just walking through a field.. you find a bunch of grain bins, but you hear people singing in one...
yeah! I'd fall to my knees!
Singing gospel.. if they were jamming to some grunge I wouldn't be as worried.
Well, first you have to find an EMPTY grain bin. :)
1D10T Bill You’d think the angels were welcoming you Home
HAHAHA
Wow......all of this was amazing but did y’all hear that bass?!?!
Why yes, yes I did. The reverb in there really helped to push the bass to the surface. Beautuful
Ya its awesome!!
That bass was elevated in that grain bin. Really pushed it forward to the ear that was listening for it after noticing it for the first time. Really blended well in the circular resonance chamber of that bin.
From what I am told, it's all about that bass and no treble.
@@mattmarcotte9048
Your momma said girl don't you worry about your size...
Extraordinary how for just a few moments a grain bin can become a glorious cathedral.
Man that bass voice is incredible!
Dougald Hendrick the shape and size affects the resonant frequencies
Damn!
@@tulsaguy9963 I think it kind of made it sound like a pipe organ.
No. No it wasn't. The notes were wrong.
nihnox lol okay, sounds perfectly on key to me.
The bass vocalists 😍😍😍 these notes are just insane
You would like this
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I was just thinking the same thing
@@connor346 AHHHH I LOVEEEEE AVI!!!
I was in chorus in high school and we has a bass who, though a bit skinny, sounded like he had his diaphragm surgically removed and replaced with an 18-inch woofer!! You had to hear this kid back in '85! His resonance was superhuman!!
I was listening to that guy too! Hitting that insane low note
The lovely acoustics make it sound as if thousands of angels are singing.
That's what I said too.
And your face makes it seem as though God took a little more time to make it. 😁
Wow!! Yes!!
@@TheHitman- I'm stealing that
nah, angels would have better timing
For a second my brain thought
'Oh hey that's cool, they should have recorded it.'
Then I realized I'm on youtube and am an idiot.
😂😂👌
gold
😅
Don't be so hard on yourself. I'm the biggest idiot known to man by far. You can't out idiot me if you tried 😄😄😄😄😄😁😁😁😁😛😛
ah the ubiquitousness of modern technology. So much a part of our lives, we even think differently! LOL
"what kind of music do you listen to?"
me: ...its complicated.
I'm not saying it's true... but it's true.
Gospel music sung by a choir in a grain bin? Me too.
Story of my life
Very true
@Julie's Heart Healed By Jesus I mean a lot of christians preach heresies, so i don't get your point.
Husband: *legitimately concerned* "Why are you crying?!"
Me: "Grain bin."
H: 😶
M: 😭
Me too! 😭
Ditto and reason enough! *minus the husband part.
LOL 😂
Same but backward lol
Me too.
I really wanna hear how this sounded from the outside
Wow wouldn't that be awesome
I had same thought
exact same thought!
Night_Watcher , maybe if you took your computer outside???? That might work eh? 😜
I'll go you one better than that. Imagine this recorded with one of those binaural heads / mic setups used for AMSR videos. Full 3D sound, like being there.
I didn't expect such a rich cathedral-like sound. Beautiful a capella.
karrasue , does NO ONE share my disappointment in not being able to make out the words?????
@@esthermiller2713 true but one must just appreciate the acoustics, too.
karrasue , I did. But of the two, the words are far more important.......IF the words are scriptural. God’s Words, whether spoken, or sung, are words spoken by God to each of us. Therefore His Words take top priority. Amen?
@@esthermiller2713 That's a fair point. But, I think the video was to see what singing God's word would sound like in a silo.
karrasue,.......and they discovered it was a big fail. But at least God knew what they were saying. He definitely gave it a thumbs up!! ❤️
The sheer power of human voices to come together to create harmony rather than division and discord . . . awe inspiring.
We can finally hear the bass vocalists over the sopranos each time without the usual strain to even identify them! All choirs should do this at least once!
Danzspdref noooooo
Sopranos unite!!!
If you like bass listen to this
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It’s a Russian singing technique called oktavism
This song is usually sung with each verse getting faster and faster. I was wondering what they would do with all that reverb! The choice was made to keep it slow, which, to me, was brilliant, really let the notes ring out and blend like they should. I loved it!
Agreed! There was more reverb in that grain bin than in a cathedral! Or at least, in the cathedral I sang in.
Honestly, it can be hard to sing quickly with a lot of reverb. The echo hits your ears right as you are trying to hit your next note and it can really mess you up.
I think if they had of sung it faster and faster it would have been enough echo to drowned themselves out ... Like you said keeping it slow probably reduced enough echo and reverb to make it as clear as possible ..
Totally agree - they left so much space for the melody to form its own harmonies 😎
Who sings it faster & faster? I've never heard it that way.
Starting at 2:40 the bass comes in. Wow. Fact, the base line is accentuated like I rarely hear. Avi Kaplan comes close to this but this is a choir! My hypothesis is that the high metal roof accentuates the longer wavelengths produced by the lower notes thus gives great acoustic power to a part we rarely hear with such verve. Basso Profundo!
Was about to comment about the bass too! Sounds amazing!
I think the crazy part is they're not even singing extremely low (D#2 I think was their lowest), they're just singing well enough that it *seems* deeper than it actually is.
sounds like they were stood closer to the microphone
As a bass I know the pain of singing 3 notes an entire song, but damn he does it well.
Wait, so is it about the space or the person? If it is about the space, how can Avi Kaplan come close to it?
The bass sound sweetly outstanding
MegaLorry definitely the highlight of the whole performance ❤️
The bass singers gave me chills
heard them just as i read your post. Most amazing sound in its natural form.
My step-grandpa is the sound guy for him, and he and Klingenberg were apparently super excited about how good they made it sound.
I bet every single person in that silo and watching this video is covered in goosebumps. I am lol
Amen
Don’t forget the tears! Holy smokes!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Ktbugg 23, maybe I would’ve been........if I could’ve understood the words!! ☹️
@@esthermiller2713
As I went down in the river to pray
Studying about that good old way
And who shall wear the starry crown
Good Lord, show me the way!
O sisters, let's go down,
Let's go down, come on down
O sisters, let's go down
Down in the river to pray
As I went down in the river to pray
Studying about that good old way
And who shall wear the robe and crown
Good Lord, show me the way!
O brothers, let's go down
Let's go down, come on down
Come on, brothers, let's go down
Down in the river to pray
As I went down in the river to pray
Studying about that good old way
And who shall wear the starry crown
Good Lord, show me the way!
O fathers, let's go down
Let's go down, come on down
O fathers, let's go down
Down in the river to pray
Ktbugg 23 , thank you. 👍🏻
My choir had the honour to sing at the Saint Matthew's Cathedral and we actually had to slow down each song because of the echo
As it should be! Why rush worshiping the Almighty?
What an eccentric guy. I love him! "I know how to christen my new grain bin..."
It sounds like 7-8 seconds reverberation time. Grace Cathedral in San Francisco is about 7. I hope they did more than one song.
Duane Ruth-Heffelbower
Good observation
Duane Ruth-Heffelbower, is there actually equipment for measuring that, I mean besides just listening and observing your digital wristwatch or stopwatch? Something that pinpoints the length of reverberation down to tenths or even hundredths of a second?
@@thudor1There is certainly equipment to do that, but listening while watching a watch is close enough for me.
@@DuaneRH how can you tell how much reverberation there is?
The usual method is to clap your hands and measure how long it takes for the sound to die away. In this case I listened for a distinct sound that would serve the purpose. My living room, which has a vaulted ceiling and hardwood floor, has a bit less than two seconds, even though it is a great room to sing in.
That grain bin will now put forth the most blessed grain!
That is what i thought, too!
Why?
What effect could a song possibly have on dead grain?
Couldn’t make out any lyrics it was so muddied.
You religious types are living in a fantasy world, I’m certain at this point.
I hope it works out for you. 😂😂😂😂
@@ascgazz Lol bro, it was a joke! Woosh! Can a person not admire great sounding and uplifting music?
@@pianoguy7793 good for you, I assume you’re perfect, yes?
@@ascgazz Get thee behind me Satan.
Imagine working in the field next door and you hear this.
Maybe I'll cut down some corn for a ballfield
@ForgottenOnes what a wonderful thought!
"OH LAWD THE GRAIN IS SINGING"
I would assume I had died.
I've seen this with a church thing on the edge of the city. We lived a few doors up eons ago and of a night when the hymns were sung (no instruments) you could look along all the back decks and everyone was out listening to the harmonies
I expected the sound to be grainy. Or the entire video to be corny. I was mistaken!
inthebriarpatch This is an under appreciated comment.
El Seed: Soldiers of corn, lend me your ears!
The Tick: Ooh... that's bad.
Not a single one of them sang a silo.
dad!
not a kernel of truth to the grainy thing. just sayin
That is awesome. Praise God for the opportunity for these young people.
This song was played at my mothers funeral in August. This was in my recommended today. Sometimes all it takes is a grain bin video to remind you your loved ones are watching over you. ❤
Sorry to hear about your mom. God works in mysterious ways and sometimes all it takes is a RUclips recommendation to know that your loved ones are just a thought away. God bless.
You know it.
Ah man 😔
Aw sorry to hear about your mom ❤️
@BeeCharma
So sorry to hear you've lost your mom. Mine has been gone almost 26 years now, and it still hurts. I hope, some four years out now, that you're doing okay.
Imagine the choir director bringing this up.
CD: “Ok guys I’ve got a new performance lined up. I’m really really excited and can’t wait to see what y’all can do.”
Choir: “Awesome!! Where’s it at?!”
CD: “A grain bin.”
Choir: .......... 😐 “Whut.”
.......... 😐 “Wheat ?”
In a grain bid. for a video that was viewed 1.5 million times.
*bin
Well, they likely understood the acoustic value of the grain bin. I would love to try it!
And concert dress, no less - bwuh?!
Great acoustics not to mention great voices! The choir ought to consider an entire CD of grain bin recordings as. a fund raiser!
Absolutely, pure Heaven. This rendition has me craving more Bethel Grain Bin singing.
I'd purchase if they did.
One does not even have to be religious to be moved to tears by this...THANK YOU, SIR...
Gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.
I'm not religious either but here I am with chills!
I felt nothing.
It's safe to say that whatever goes into this silo will become blessed grains. 😇🙏🖖😀👌
Dale You must be a Catholic. Plus that 666 “a okay” symbol.
Sing ABBA in there and you get pop corn.
@@graysonlopez3030 relax
Dale, a bass singer who eats them will hit new lows....in the best sense of the phrase!😃
You blessed the grains?
THIS is what the Super Bowl 🏈 SHOULD be doing for EVERY half time show! Give Praise, Honor & Glory instead of amusing a passing pleasure!!!!
🙏❤️🩹🙏
Those bass vocals😱 also I have goosebumps EVERYWHERE, such a rich sound
McKenna Neff if you love bass like me get a load of this!
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It’s a singing technique called oktavism, other low singing techniques are growls and subharmonics, those are very popular as well
YES !! I got chill bumps ad big as TEXAS!! Amazing singers nut dont hear that many that young men with that low of bass! AWESOME job to ALL💯🥰
Those Bass vocals were awesome, but I also liked the crickets in there as well!
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@@bowinski8645 i’m 9 months late, but this is so cool! thank you for sharing
No microphones needed. Sound was naturally amplified. Good choice of song to sing as I doubt a faster tempo song would not have done so well.
That's a good point!
But then the video would have no sound... (I get your point, but obviously mics were used to record this; you mean no amplification was needed in the grain bin. I should shut up now.)
There are somewhere in the neighborhood of fifty people singing, and no audience. Why would you need amplification?
I want to hear from the recording engineer. I'm imagining that it was hard to set up to get a unified choral sound.
"I doubt a faster tempo would not have done so well"... You said the opposite of what you meant.
Also microphones were needed. That's how you're listening to the recorded voices.
They should do an entire album in that silo, it would be a huge seller. Incredible.
Please do ^
Maybe they could do an album/CD of choral songs in the grain bin?
I would buy it, definately.
Long as they kept the tempo down. Go to fast and the echos will really get in the way
I do mobile recording... would be happy to record that.
I have an old vinyl album a flute player recorded under the domes of the Taj Mahal in India. IIRC the reverberations last 20 seconds. The music on the album is other-worldly! A similar sound could probably have been had in this bin.
Colloquialize the title: Jes’ Bin Singin’
I would bet the microphones being used did not even BEGIN to catch to depth of the accoustics. What was caught on the recording however, was awe inspiring.
AMEN!!! The Bethel College Choir was excellent, and the base was absolutely amazing. The singing and recording of this precious hymn in a grain bin was an awesome idea. ✝️ 🎙️🎤🎶🎶
Is this the Bethel College in Mishawaka IN?
Well... As a Native Kansan, Hutchinson, this is all dear to me. I've sung in bins to bless them many times, and I greatly enjoyed seeing this beautiful song being sung in a fashion most familiar to me
Hutch you say?
@@Blueee51 ahyup, 10+ yrs there
I live in Wichita Kansas and I often have wondered what the sound would be like if I sang in one of these. I am passionate about singing and even sang in WSU's madrigal choir for a couple years, even have videos here on RUclips! This video made my heart soar.
@@courtneygrier2015
Keep singing and find some locals during Harvest season. Soft and melodic tones are best given the metallic reverberation, shrilly noises will fry a microphone if the sound bounces too hard
Or even old Warehouses and Mills have some buildings with oddly spectacular accustics
@@Its.Daem0n I often sing in the stair case of parking garages...usually vacant and the sound really rings!
*"Come on in boys, the water is fine."*
Not otherwise trained in metallurgical arts.
"I'll be a son of a bitch, Delmar's been saved"
I love Oh Brother where art though such a good movie
I an Welsh, and we sing in harmony every day. My heart cried in joy after 1 bar, the rest whooooooaaaah. I entered a other plane of existence!
Lmao we most certainly do not as a general population, that is a phat sweeping generalism
Idk how I even got here. My guy started with a trombone. I played that in highschool. I am now a fan.
kaddis01, but my advice to you, sir, is.......NEVER EVER play in a silo!!!!! People generally like to be able to make out the WORDS,........or is that no longer a desire???!!!
Esther Miller 1st of all...not a "sir." 2nd of all...just enjoy it!! I could make out the words fine. Perhaps because I know the song by heart, but I was simply enjoying they sound they were making. Great music isn't always perfect.
kaddis01, please accept my apologies. There was no way I could tell which gender you are. And you are correct in saying music can’t always be expected to be perfect. But I like to be able to understand the words as they are sung. 😉
Esther Miller Why are you telling me tho?!? I didn't record this. I said I like it. Your inability to understand the singers has nothing to do with me. Make that comment on your own. Don't tack it to my post. That's just odd.
I built that grain bin!
Cory Sundquist how many bushels does it hold? Job well done.
@@markusayt about 85000 if I remember correctly.
Years ago, I put one together also, helping a farmer neighbor. Kind of a sensory amplification chamber when you stand in an empty one.
U sure made it shiny.good job.
Your grain bins sound real noice!
I taught my granddaughter this song when she was 3 years old. She's almost 8 and we still sing it together.
That Bass singer on pray.!
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It’s a singing technique called oktavism, other low singing techniques are growls and subharmonics, those are very popular as well
I would literally travel all the way there from boston to play my cello inside of that grain bin.
I would love to hear that!! I played the cello a long time ago. Beautiful instrument.
Do it, that would be beautiful
With that length of reverb, they should do rounds and catches.
RUclips needs a love button for vids like this. Likes just ain’t enough!
While it isn't quite the same, I have a playlist for all of the videos I really liked watching that just liking it wasn't enough
Sooooo good!!
I'll second that emotion.❤️
Very interesting you are always coming up with something neat to do on your farm. That had the sound amazing standing there. Hope you have an amazing day
These lovely people are praising the God that saved my son in law from cancer, that saved my son in a road accident, that found a heart doctor to operate on my grandsons heart. How do you say " Thank you" to a God that can do that and more..? Move up folks , make space for a very thankful grandad!!
Wow, it's like you just injected a ton of love into that farm.
I have listened to this multiple times. The sound is so pure. Somehow I can’t help but think this is just a tiny smidge of what it will be like listening to the angels singing in heaven. It’s almost overwhelming. ♥️
Susan Smaltz
And the angels won't be the only ones singing!
Oh yes!
@@downbntout In heaven I will not care my only singing talent is staying on key, I will sing praises at the top of my lungs!
Susan Smaltz
My thoughts exactly!!!! This is truly heavenly!
Heaven? You can't be serious to think heaven is not just a fairy tale.
Trombone started out at a bit faster tempo but when choir started it was the perfect tempo. wow... no amplification needed. Whoever thought to do this... THANK YOU! What a wonderful collab. I have listened to this on repeat no less than 30 times now.....simply beautiful. Thank you!!!
And Bass..OMG YUUUUUSSSSSS
Takes singing in the shower to a whole new level! Beautiful!
You know it's good when you get chills all over when you hear it.
Imagine working at the farm and not knowing they were doing this. And you're having a TERRIBLE DAY because you're going through a tough time. You walk past this this silo and hear this. Bet it would uplift anyone
Omg, that sound is beautiful, and those basses were so on point. (Choir girl myself, first soprano) absolutely fantastic!
As one of them, thanks!
@@McPhersonBassMaster of course! I've always loved the sound of a really good bass in a choir. To me, that sound brings the whole choir together and rounds out the sound beautifully.
Oh, i guess those bas notes would not be so amazing if you were not in a choir, yourself?
I guess vanity has to be involved in every aspect of our lives, as a footnote "the pasta dish, was very tasty (having cooked pasta in the past, myself - i also have a selfie of me actually being in the kitchen!)"
Yes, it sounds funny, actually! :)
@@grandprime9026 it has nothing to do with vanity, it was a preface of my admiration of the beautiful notes being sung as it's hard for a lot of men who sing bass to match up so well with the other basses as the notes are so deep and robust. I mentioned that I was a choir girl so that the men knew that I knew how hard they work to create that beautiful, rich, deep sound. So no, it has nothing to so with vanity.
@@grandprime9026 on top of that they are also fighting to hear one another in the highly echoing grain bin and therefore have to be very very in tune to listen for one another. So this is pure admiration, the whole choir was absolutely beautiful.
I had to go back to this this morning. I have just started my day with this.
Then I decided to play it just once more before breakfast.
...then just one more time.
...Then again.
Then I got up but came back because you have one bass that hits the bottom so eloquently. I really wanted to focus in on that guy.
Then one more time just for good measure.
At this rate, I will starve for want of breakfast or even a cup of coffee.
They will find my depleted body at my 'puter with my hand at my mouse.
But, to the Bethel College Choir -- what a celestial way to go. A beautiful choir to send me off, and surely one on heaven's side to receive me.
God is profoundly and boundlessly good.
Thank you.
This is such an old man comment and I’m living for it
The chills I got from this video. The harmonies, the sounds, the vocals...it's so angelic and beautiful.
Must have been insane to hear this while actually being there, with the sound echoing all around you
as someone who has sung with a choir in a grain bin before, it is very very cool
This is what I imagine it will sound like when were in heaven worshiping the lord but even more beautiful and amazing
I won't be off key then.
Except it won’t be a handful of people, a thousand people, or even billions of people. It’ll be GREAT MULTITUDES of people! Can’t even begin to imagine what that’ll sound like! 🤗🙏
Ohh I can only imagine!!
Amen!
@@2008romboy it'll sound like heaven! Haha pun intended
Go listen to them when they are in the hotel for competition and you're going to cry. Hundreds of them
My mom who is now 90 grew up at moundridgr Kansas and graduated from bethel in 1949 she found this video amazing and entertaining thank you for posting it
Great voices! Some of the bass guys had a didgeridoo sound. I guess the sides of the grain bin created some cool harmonics. Nice video
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It’s a singing technique called oktavism, other low singing techniques are growls and subharmonics, those are very popular as well
To know what a didgeridoo is..you must be Australian. I have one. Probably one of only a few here in the U.S. 😥 I miss Australia .
I wept with the presence of the Lord. 💞👑
Many many musicians around the world will appreciate this natural reverb, lovely singing also, made my day :)
Absolutely beautiful and heavenly, I am really impressed, I would never have thought that the acoustics of that structure would lend itself to such clarity.
A big word of thanks to all those that participated in this remarkable performance.
A beautiful way to bless the work, the grain, and the food that this bin and all the farmers provide for the world!
I want an encore..."Let the Circle be Unbroken"
Well the circle BETTER be unbroken, otherwise the bin will collapse...
I agree!
"Let me empty my 850 tons +, of grain, for an encore"
Yes I love that song!
Do the encore.
I think I've watched this like 20 times, tears, happy, sad, overwhelmed, blessed,. . . . Angelic
Grain bin singing is so much fun. For real.
I love the way he films everything it’s like the office in comedic genius, it’s so unintentional that it’s ironic
Thank you so much; all of you. It's incredibly touching. Made me cry.
That is really one of the coolest "outside of the box" uses of a grain bin I've ever seen.
I can’t compare someone’s mic being in a tin can anymore, cause this actually sounds good 😪🙏
but now
you can tell 'em they need a bigger tin can
This is sooo darn good that I have to keep listening again.....and again. ❣🌎
I know that grain bin is very expensive, but He should just leave the grain out and have these guys sing there often WOW !
How wonderful that sounded! 7 years of plentiful harvest!
How about 9.5 years? Why are we trying to "jew" the farmer? Hehe
WOW! Tears were shed. Thx SO much Farmer Derek & Bethel Choir - Praise God!
Remember everyone, a good choir is an even better team. Each member relies upon each other to practice and care for the music they sing. It's not just the basses, sopranos, etc. it's everyone if any one of those sections were missing, it wouldn't be as fulfilling of a song.
Imagine walking your dog and hearing this..."is that? Is that coming from that guys grain bin?"
Wow just lovely. Sometimes the most mundane things hide the most extraordinary qualities. Hope they sang more than one song??
A grain silo is mundane?
Grand Prime yeh
Thank you for adding another item to my bucket list: sing in a grain silo
You could have looped the singing part a few times. That was over way too soon!
I'd love to know who the guy was singing bass with notes clearly heard and dropping down into the cellar with a few of the notes.
Oh man, yes!
sorry im 2 years late but sheeeeeeeeeeeeeesh they sound like angels
Beautiful ! The Grain Bin on our family farm used to be one of my favorite places to sneak away to and sing !!
That boy singing the baritone has one heck of a wind pipe! Would love to experience or even participate in something like this!
As a fellow trombone player, how can I say how perfect the trombone was in this performance! 😊
A Life Long memory For You all . The Acoustics are Over the top and when The Baritone Vocals came inline the Sound if from a Gift from Heaven Only. This is now a True Saved Video
The slow pace of the song made it a natural choice.
The hand holding near the end gave me goosebumps.
And that BASS!!! ❤️❤️❤️
This should be a way we bless each harvest. And give thanks to God for blessing us with these gifts.
You can definitely store seven years of grain to feed Egypt in there!
Pete Smyth Bible joke FTW
WOW!!!! I never expected that kind of acoustics. Very awesome.
yhere bodies were damping the reverb alot a compmetly empty bin has even morre reverb it ounds incredible though
Its like this in Austin capital. Was there when a chior was singing. The acoustics are amazing. In a grain bin with no obstruction, its simply amplified.
I get chills every time I hear this. Incredible. I just wish the guy didn’t clutter up the sound with his trombone.
Awesome!! I think Allison Krause would be impressed. Great acoustics who knew in a silo.
Empty room/container: why would it not have amazing accoustics? Because it's a grain silo? Accoustics, dont discriminate their qualities! :)
Nice acoustics can and truly a talented choir. If I may it's always frustrating to hear a folk song done so formally...I don't know how to say what I mean. It sounds uppity, I think it's the diction. I'm putting this under the Alison Krauss comment because the oh brother version was every bit as beautifully sung without being like that.
But those basses really rumbled. This whole thing was a great idea.