Making the top 10. Woohoo!! My teacher is their musical director. I'm so proud and really happy for her and the ladies! The work they've put in was ferocious. We'll deserved!

Tenacious Q sang How to Build a Quartet and it was scored 72, with a 62 in mus, 84 in per and 71 in sng. Like what happened. I'm assuming the song was not contestable but still.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g06TtkPhRms&ab_channel=TheNewfangledFour

I used to be fine singing well for long stretches. In recent years when I walk or sing, I immediately get a sorish ache/strain and what I believe is a "Globus" sensation, which is uncomfortable and feels like something in your throat, sore dryness.

Doctor says nothing looks abnormal, but the thing is, they are looking for critical things I guess and not this sort of constant non life threatening kind of thing and simply don't seem to give a shit at all.

Drinking water doesn't ease it. Sometimes eating will for a short time.

I don't have much hope talking about this here. Sounds medical right? But never know... Some singers here may have some advice.

The announcement from First Take, including a bonus tag feature Stuart! https://www.facebook.com/share/v/jZvkW5BPdcQCQ8RR/

Hi everyone! I have a bit of an issue here. I’m currently an opera major at UCLA, and so is every other good singer I know who is into barbershop… which means we’re all extremely busy with school.

Even if we could find time to form a quartet and such, the FWD conferences always happen during weekdays, and skipping that many classes is just not feasible for our degree. Realistically, we have to prioritize our voice studies. In addition, Westminster is about 2 hours away by bus.

This has been really frustrating for me, as I have been a barbershop enthusiast for a while and just can’t seem to find good opportunities to start competing at a higher level.

On the positive side, I am starting a barbershop club at UCLA, which has been a huge passion project of mine!

However, that won’t scratch my itch of competitive barbershop. I’m so lost on how to get into it.

A couple of weeks ago I accidentally joined my school's barbershop choir and I LOVE it so far!!

Beforehand, I knew next to nothing about singing, and have never properly sang before. The director person assigned me to singing bass, and I would like some advice on how to get better at it in general. It's really fun, and my group is pretty small, so there's only one other bass, so it would be nice to be able assist him a bit more with singing bass bits.

If there's any recommended apps or tutorials, or just simple practice advice, I could really use it.

Thank you for any help in advance! :D

Hello! I've been recording for a few days now doing different tracks, and for tenor I've always wondered if head voice is preferred or falsetto

Hello! I'm looking for some simple tags to do in my free and im looking for some recommendations with links (hopefully, no pressure if there's none). Only recently got success with recoding simple chords of Barbershop

It's the morning after the afterglow and I'm now remembering all the tags I know that I completely spaced on when someone asked me "what tags do you know?"

I need to start keeping a list. I'm not good under pressure.

Hey y'all!

I bought a mic and I'm planning to record some tags in the vein of Tim Wauricks YouTube channel. I'm looking for some tags to start with - my strongest part is bass, so I'm looking for some interesting tags that feature a very strong/unique/low bass parts. Thank you!

Hi everyone :) My quartet has been singing/performing for fun for a bit now and we‘ve thought about competing in our first proper Barbershop Contest next year. Up until now we‘ve just been doing our own thing and we don‘t really know much about what types of songs are usually performed in contest. We‘re mostly familiar with the top-tier quartets who pretty much all get their own arrangements done. How does it fair for a „normal“ quartet to perform songs/arrangements that may have already been performed/popularized by other quartets? Is it also possible to perform arrangements specifically tailored to a different quartet (like performing something originally done by VocalSpectrum or AfterHours, NF4 etc).

P.S Feel free to give general advice on what to keep in mind for firsttimers

Looks like the BHS youtube channel has removed or privated the First Take finals performance and the 2024 finals rebroadcast, anyone know why?

I was excited to join my local SAI chapter. I just found out it’s >$500 a year total for the local, regional, and international dues. The international dues alone are $125! I’m surprised too because the chapter just did a big garage sale fundraiser that raised thousands of dollars. I just don’t know if I can justify that to stand on some risers and sing. This is astronomical compared to some of the bands I play French horn in! Is it really this expensive to rehearse in a church gym one night a week?!

Does anyone know where I can find their arrangement of Little Town. The version I got off of BHS seems quite different. Thanks

I’ve been singing in barbershop choruses for years and recently started a quartet for the first time. I’ve been told (after we started) that the norm is for the lead to make musical decisions and essentially direct rehearsals because they’re singing melody.

I talked to my quartet about how that won’t work for me. One reason I wanted to do a quartet was to have more say in musical decisions.

I’m curious if anyone has found a way to run a quartet more democratically, and if so, how do you go about it?

28 quartets entered, including Opus IV.

8 Choruses entered, including Vocal Majority.

Sounds boring, huh? 😂 🎼🎤🎶💯

See some of you there!