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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
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I've never heard a female barbershop quartet, and this is amazing
GQ are amazing, they came 4th at BHS International this year; highly recommend listening to Pity Party
They're the best around
Interesting point. Would they be a barbershop quartet, or a salon quartet?
@@fromthegamethrone lol! I suppose a salon quartet would be more fitting
You ought to see them in a show situation. Personalities and harmonies equally great.
That bass though... she was in the groove!!!
Silky smooth indeed.
What an honor!!! Fancy seeing you here! Hopefully by the time 2023 Midwinter comes around I'll be able to say I'm a member of the society, I'm getting there and doing what I can :)
Reason why this worked so well is, firstly due to the soprano not singing loud. Believe me, as a tenor we tend to sing way higher in volume than we are supposed to. And then, the alto had amazing presence. That, along with the perfectly aligned harmonies, made this absolutely be perfect
Yeah, my tenor friend i used to sing musicals with has a great voice, and we do end up mic'ing him at the shows but fuck he doesnt need it
Well said! A lot of quality and resonance is lost by everyone being forced to be loud and fake-operatic. Old-fashioned 'concert' rooms used to have good acoustics, and forced loudness was not needed.
That kind of dynamic balance is a hallmark of the barbershop style! (This isn't a typical barbershop arrangement, but GQ is primarily a barbershop quartet.) The melody is in one of the inner voices and the strongest presence, with the lowest voice laying a foundation, the highest voice floating above, and the fourth voice singing whatever notes are left and filling out the chords. Barbershop nowadays also encourages very easygoing, tension-free singing, where singers don't try to sound like each other but instead take advantage of their natural resonance and use other techniques to create a unit sound. Barbershop is a wonderful art form and I'm so pleased to see it featured on broader music channels like this one!
@@danacinque Well said (all comments actually, I almost want to cry of how nice people are), and it's one of my main points whilst listening to barbershop is how well they can sing together as one, especially beautiful when you can hear the overtones
Thank you!!
1:33 The dynamic change gave me chills. Actually incredible.
right!! they control their dynamics so weeeell
No words fr :D
"Retire the fire" was soooooo good
This is like the song you’d hear in a 40s animated movie when the main character finally starts to stand up for themselves with a montage
0:42 The swag on that "check out the crabs in the bucket" is through the roof
Love how they look at each other
In the back of my head I can hear everything coming in. The drums, the bass, the horns. That's how good their singing was.
WOW their bass is good, so smooth w it
She has perfect pitch too, which makes her doubly amazing!
MAN they are in the pocket!! GQ is always so clean, so impressive. They sing as a quartet rather than as individual singers, always listening to each other and blending beautifully, none of them are trying to be the spotlight. Amazing.
i'm mesmerized by that bassline
Yes she slayed
I can't wait for all the people who start to share names of the other great women quartets, and then to start seeing your transcriptions of them. Hearing from everyone else on here is a great way to be introduced to some many talented singers who I've never heard before. Thanks Jason, and thanks ahead of time to all of you who start sending in the names of other impressive singers.
Unfortunately, he changed the title now...
@@joshgirndt4896 Yet the sentiment still pretty much holds up. Plus, I think the new title is a fitting one too.
Adrenaline quartet is good
GQ is far and away my favorite treble quartet. Other quartets to check out if you're interested: Hot Pursuit, The Ladies, Take 4, and Double Date (a mixed quartet, but Blair is one of my favorite femme leads of all time) are all active quartets. Ambiance, Growing Girls, Panache, and The Buzz are legendary treble quartets of barbershop history.
@@danacinque Thanks for the list. Looks like I've got some viewing/listening in front of me. Maybe Jason will transcribe some of their pieces. I love following along.
LOVED the spunky energy of these ladies. It's really amazing how music can bring people together, and then bring joy to all who hear it.
This is the most heavenly-sounding group I have ever heard
Perfection. Perfection in harmonies, dynamics, diction and tempo. Let's not forget synchronized cut offs!
And attitude, and chutzpah as my teacher would say
Respect to the bass that was so good
Bass clef with an 8va, never seen one of those before!
Neither had I before researching female barbershop quartet notation! It's extremely common in those tunes which is why I decided to use it here
@@jasonfieler makes perfect sense really
Women’s barbershop music also uses the voice parts tenor, lead, baritone, bass!! This might give some insight as to why arrangements for women’s barbershop ensembles/quartets use this notation.
Basset recorder and great bass recorder are notated in 8va bass clef
Wait till you see a bass clef with a 15va. Truly, why does it exist when you can just notate in treble? I mean, unless you have no idea how to read treble clef lol.
GQ is SO good. All of their albums go so hard
where can i find their music? isnt on spotify as far as i can see
@@raycharles1796 It’s on Spotify! Their albums are, I believe, just called GQ, GQ, Vol. II, etc
I've long appreciated barbershop-tight harmonies, and these ladies represent the art well. The elder statesmen seemed to appreciate their rendition. I loved Katie Mac's jubilant reactions at the end. Thanks for the transcription, which helped me to sing along as well as I could.
I can't even imagine how amazing it would be to have Barbershop legends groovin' to what you were doing. No wonder they perform it so well.
Y’all forgot to write in the aggressive shushing in the score hahah
I love seeing female barbershop quartets! This was amazing! I love 1:07 -- I can't stop replaying it
Shout out to the bass for a stellar job! Everyone (especially the harmonies) were fire! 🔥🔥🔥We're going to need an extinguisher...
Okay so I watched this yesterday and now I’m obsessed with this group lol
GQ always brings a smile to my face. Their voices blend like no other I've heard.
Jason, I think your voice is also silky smooth and beautiful
So is yours
@@jasonfieler you praise me too much
@@homerles impossible
@@jasonfieler hi I'm mckennzie and can I ask you a couple of questions please
@@dailydoseofmckennzie5202 I don't see why not
Of all the instruments there is nothing like human voices in harmony.
I'm not sure if you've heard of them, but a really fantastic female vocal group named Säje has some amazing harmonies and fantastic composition skills I'd definitely like to see you take a crack at transcribing some of these insane chords and runs. I especially like their "Solid Ground/Blackbird" Mash up thing also desert song as well.
Yes! Their music is stunning! My favourite is Desert Song.
@@gabriellegeorge2648 They have an amazing ear and a fantastic sense of harmony and rhythm, I really like desert song and it's certainly got me always listening when in comes on the playlist, but the complex nature of Solid ground/blackbird is peek my kind of thing especially with the weird off beat improvisational -esque in between notes is really just absolutely amazing.
i had the pleasure of hearing them live at the NZCF Big Sing Finale the other week! Recordings don't to their talent service!
girl on the right had amazing voice and timing
Wow. Some control here. Perfect pitch and rhythm.
They preformed at an acapella fest my schools acapella group participated in and they were amazing 10/10 would recommend watching them if you ever have a chance
So so true!!!!! Sometimes they over sing and it's downright painful. This was stellar!
Absolutely incredible, Could listen to these ladies all day long!
That key signature will make me die
Wow! They're superb!
CHECK OUT THE CRABS IN THE BUCKET
"Check out the 🦀🦀🦀 in the 🪣" 😆
This is the most Canadian piece I've ever heard. Yonge Street AND The Hip referenced in one song?????
K-OS!
Very beautiful, very soulful and very grooving 🙂👍👍👍
"Vocal music's so boring, so samey." No, actually, you're wrong, and this glimpse is a great example of the barbershop craft. And fun!
Perfect!
they sound incredible !!
Awesome ladies. I liked the Hip mention too.
My choir actually worked with GQ a few months ago at out most recent barbershop competition
What amazing swinging barbarettes!!! Fine all the way to fabulous!!
What beautiful voices.
They look like sisters!! Really amazing job!!!
GQ has been around for quite a while. They're IMHO finally getting the recognition they deserve.
one my absolute favorites transcribed by my favorite
Ho myy.... al such talented people!
the new pitch perfect movie looks great
Absolutely. Brilliant.
Hohoho sounds like it’s one person singing all the voices I meaaaan
I found GQ on Spotify and I listen to them since then
hey ! that groove I'm loving it
They have same voice quality, making them blends smoothly
Made my day, thank you!!!
Superb!
Wow, this was just beautiful! They are excellent, and they fit with each other so amazingly like, oh I don't know, all the ingredients of a great frittata.
I particularly enjoyed this. Thank you.
So smooth. Keep going girls
They were all vibin and so was I. 🤣 That was smooth and effortless, for real.
A classic example of every bass line ever lmao
Here's a fun fact: the higher the note, the harder it is to tune. Groups like this literally have it harder than, say, your average men's barbershop quartet, and every single time I hear one in real life or online they absolutely NAIL tuning, because they have to or they'll sound horrible. With the training it takes to nail tuning like this, they're bound to be phenomenal at the other aspects of musicality and performance, and of course, we're seeing that here too.
Seriously good job and huge respect!
I have found intonation to become increasingly harder the lower I go...
@@OogaB0oga might be a breath support thing! I would have no idea but that's where I'd start.
Human physiology is something I don't know a lot about and it might also be tough to tune low as referring to singing, but all other things being equal, higher notes = harder tuning. Higher note = higher frequency = more sound waves that have to line up per second = less "woowoowoo" sound and more "yikes that's out of tune" with the same amount of cents detuned.
A 1% error on 120 Hz is only 1.2Hz. A 1% error on 880Hz is 8.8Hz. The human ear is also more precisely tuned to higher frequencies for speech recognition. So you're right. It's harder to sing in tune higher, and it's also equally as hard to keep the high G string on a guitar in tune compared to a bass string for example.
@@SigmaChirality thank you! I didn't think to do example math :)
@@SigmaChirality This isn't quite accurate. Being 1% flat at 880Hz or at 110Hz would both sound 16 cents flat (in just intonation in A). So a baritone has to stay within 1.1Hz of an A2, but a soprano has to stay within 8.8 Hz of an A5. A baritone has far less leeway before sounding noticeably flat. Still, whilst a soprano has 8 times more leeway for an A5 than a baritone's A2, physically she's putting in more effort.
The further you go up your singing register, the more one muscle contracts to lengthen and tighten your vocal folds (similarly another muscle contracts to make them go floppy the lower you go). Additionally, when you sing your glottis repeatedly opens and closes to vibrate: to sing an A5 vocal folds have to vibrate 8 times faster than for an A2 - but to sing loudly you need to build up air pressure, which only increases during closure, so to compensate you need better breath support to push enough air out of your lungs, except the louder you sing, the stronger your vocal folds are forced apart, which means more muscular effort to keep those folds tight etc. etc.
It's tough either way - singing a long low drone without going more than a couple Hz flat, or loud runs at the top of your register without splattering vocal cords across the ceiling. And for all the notes in between too - in barbershop there's nowhere to hide when you fudge the harmony. The applause is always well-deserved.
This brings me back to The Chordettes. Great energy
Holy crickets, that was amazing!!!!!
Their cover of How Great Thou Art will break you down. LOVE "Indeed I Do"
For anybody wondering who these people are, their on Spotify and their called GQ.
This was awwesome.
Goosebumps! Nice.
Insane good
*insanely
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
'humans can't be instruments'
Au contraire. Human voices can be tuned to each other in harmony more precisely than other instruments, to create overtones and undertones due to perfect harmonics.
Pretty neat.
Wow!
This is so good
Fancy seeing you here
Incredible!!
Directly to the DNA ♥️🔥🔥👀 absolutly splendide
They sound so much like the Fates from the musical Hadestown
My exact thought
Beautiful. Wish I'd arranged that.
Wow amazing, and the Mans face was wonderful to watch
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Anyone else notice the key signature? C-flat! First piece of music I've ever seen with that...
I meant it more as Ab minor lol but technically yeah I guess it's also Cb
Wonderful work!👌
Madames? More like Ma-DAMNS, GIRLS. So much fun, what a great arrangement for an already great song!
It doesn't fit the barbershop genre specifically, but there's a group called Aura, if you search Aura - Clair de Lune you'll find, it's 5 asian women in the cover and it's one of the most beautiful versions of Clair de Lune I've ever heard
Good Stuff!
The black guy is having the time of his life ...
It’s the BLEND for me
GQ, my fave group 😍
Wow! I knew Katie sang low, but I didn't know it was that low!
Really cool
Oh my gosh, is this improvised? Are they like just riffing on a classic? I love this!
Pretty sure this is not improvised, but still, it's an amazing performance!
I think you mean “improvised”. If you shorten it to “improved” you get a different word don’t you? And no it’s definitely not improvised.
@@fezzik7619 Ah, I hadn't seen the typo. Thank you for letting me know!
Super good
Damn!
I’d date the second alto
I clicked because of the title, 'cause I was curious who it was. All you had to say was GQ and I would have clicked anyway.
Amazing!
It would sound better without the interruptions
It was an impromptu performance, it wasn't really meant to be studio-quality
Went up a semitone sharp hmmm
Maravlhoso..! Best wishes from São Paulo, Brazil..!💚💚💛💛