How to sing the national anthem at a sporting event.

TBONENCF · 2013-01-22T22:31:13+00:00

I challenge all reddit choir nerds to upload videos of them attempting this exactly as written for my amusement

DJRD · 2013-01-22T20:54:21+00:00

Musician tip: Putting a whole bunch of space between notes (ie lines 4 and 6) does not lengthen a note.

hawksfan81 · 2013-01-22T23:25:39+00:00

There's a piece by John Cage called "As Slow as Possible" that takes 639 years to play.

Clinic2 · 2013-01-22T21:14:50+00:00

That shit annoys the fuck out of me. Just sing it, and sing it right. Then let the sports begin.

uninattainable · 2013-01-23T01:17:14+00:00

This is the best rendition of this score of music

The_Ecstatic_X · 2013-01-22T17:14:48+00:00

I'm no professional musician but it looks like your larynx is supposed to have a seizure

AwayFromTheMoon · 2013-01-22T22:05:06+00:00

My chorus director in high school referred to this as vocal gymnastics.

archelochus · 2013-01-22T22:16:27+00:00

This is probably one of the funniest posts I have seen in a long time. It's so true too, all these artists are trying to sound good by fluctuation EVERY SINGLE note, but it just sounds like they're choking on a grasshopper

peterpressurecooker · 2013-01-22T22:52:36+00:00

As an amateur musician, I lost it at the chromatic scale.

superior_taste · 2013-01-22T19:45:35+00:00

This is not how notation works.

nahanahs · 2013-01-22T20:50:30+00:00

by the dawn's early lights?

feedingmydreams · 2013-01-23T00:22:54+00:00

As an American, I am bored as shit of this song.

spect0rjohn · 2013-01-22T23:07:47+00:00

Maya Rudolph's version FTW

SenorMunkE · 2013-01-23T02:35:34+00:00

I hate how people fail to remember that the Star Spangled Banner is A FUCKING MARCH AND THEREFORE SHOULD BE SUNG/PLAYED AT MARCH TEMPO!!

the2belo · 2013-01-23T01:17:37+00:00

"O!!!!!!!"

zadtheinhaler · 2013-01-23T01:41:17+00:00

Reminds of the following joke -

Q: In opera, what is a coloratura?

A: That crazy bitch who tries to sing all the notes at once.

ElricG · 2013-01-22T22:24:13+00:00

You have to completely overdo EVERY SINGLE NOTE

IndecisionToCallYou · 2013-01-23T00:23:34+00:00

If we still went by the rules of the opera, a phantom would show up and ruin your day if you started pulling this crap.

condirice · 2013-01-22T15:55:13-07:00

Or in Beyonce's case: just hit play

Alcoholicia · 2013-01-23T00:34:44+00:00

Whitney 4ever

Fuego_Fiero · 2013-01-22T22:57:12+00:00

Love the chromatic on proud. I think I would actually applaud harder if someone did that in the national anthem.

animrast · 2013-01-23T00:20:09+00:00

John Stafford Smith actually wrote the melodic line to the national anthem. Francis Scott Key only wrote the words.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stafford_Smith

hornydeafman69 · 2013-01-23T01:11:46+00:00

The longer the song, the bigger the chance of someone forgetting the words

zerbey · 2013-01-22T22:33:19+00:00

OK, I've lived in this country almost 14 years and I've heard some darn good versions of the Star Spangled Banner. Some awful ones too. I still don't understand why we never get to sing it together? I miss doing that at sporting events in England.

Eagerbeaverinmexico · 2013-01-22T23:41:22+00:00

But lip synced at a presidential innauguration

kwprules · 2013-01-23T00:05:51+00:00

It has to switch randomly to 4/4. Other than that, great.

KurtGriffin · 2013-01-23T00:06:00+00:00

I always thought it was "dawnderly" instead of "dawns early." Weird.

MickTheBloodyPirate · 2013-01-23T00:27:36+00:00

I can handle it taking longer to sing. What I can't stand is all the twilling and warbling that a lot of these younger pop and r&b performers do to the song, constantly.

mind_the_gap · 2013-01-23T02:41:17+00:00

It should say John Stafford Smith in the upper right corner, not F Scott Key. You credit the composer of the music on the sheet music, not the writer of the lyrics. Or at least say words by F Scott Key, but you gotta credit the composer of the music.

snaxe · 2013-01-22T21:32:48+00:00

All of those extra notes give it soul, or so I've been told.

Buddhainhair · 2013-01-22T14:18:13-07:00

I tried to sing it, and it sounded fairly accurate. Accurate in the sporting event sense, not the american national anthem sense.

ihasakiwi · 2013-01-23T00:09:15+00:00

Eric Whitacre posted this on Facebook haha

H0K · 2013-01-22T15:13:26-07:00

The world does not have one national anthem....

countlazypenis · 2013-01-22T22:32:42+00:00

Or if you're at a national event...don't bother singing at all.

motomoto86 · 2013-01-22T22:44:01+00:00

I don't know how to read this in my head

y00t · 2013-01-22T23:19:00+00:00

Bleeding Gums Murphy

VancitySwag · 2013-01-22T23:52:59+00:00

this is so true and its so annoying

hemite · 2013-01-22T23:55:22+00:00

Finally, years of music training have paid off and helped me understand this joke.

aztech101 · 2013-01-23T00:10:59+00:00

I appear to have forgotten how to read music, I have no idea what I'm looking at.

TunaCasserole · 2013-01-23T00:11:52+00:00

Humming that was a bit of a challenge.

thedower · 2013-01-22T17:12:59-07:00

AT THE WHAAAT?!?

planeray · 2013-01-23T00:14:03+00:00

Surely the original is the best

james39 · 2013-01-23T00:25:59+00:00

Ohhhhwoahhhhhhhhhayyoayyohhhhhhhh say can you seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

RinoQuez · 2013-01-23T00:29:29+00:00

Is someone going to record this already or what?

fredthegoddess · 2013-01-23T01:09:49+00:00

Don't forget to confirm and deny too!

TheMediumPanda · 2013-01-23T01:12:17+00:00

Always found the 'Star Spangled Banner' quite boring and furthermore overly patriotic/nationalistic (although the latter is par for the course for many anthems).

yadnulsirhc · 2013-01-23T01:25:59+00:00

performed by maya rudolph

vile_and_pernicious · 2013-01-22T18:33:11-07:00

I believe the technical term here is "oversouling."

Mattloaf3 · 2013-01-23T01:33:27+00:00

There are several mistakes. DO YOU EVEN GLIST

magical_pink_unicorn · 2013-01-23T01:40:20+00:00

Raise your hand if you sang it out loud and scared your neighbors!

21nipples · 2013-01-23T01:41:32+00:00

Ahh yes, beautiful Reddit. I can communicate with Americans without there being a mass shooting :) what a joy.

HowManyMonkeys · 2013-01-23T01:51:27+00:00

Or Happy Birthday for the President

MiguelLancaster · 2013-01-23T01:59:15+00:00

I want to play and record this as written, but I'm sure someone else can do it much more quickly than I can. So --- someone please do this.

egusw · 2013-01-23T02:05:14+00:00

Change it to c minor and sing this shit staccato.

CowboySpencer · 2013-01-23T02:06:14+00:00

Hi Facebook ... oh, I'm on reddit. I got disoriented there for a second.

andywildman · 2013-01-23T02:11:41+00:00

Zac Brown Band did it the right way at the Falcons-49ers game on Sunday.

Regador5 · 2013-01-23T02:13:31+00:00

As a musician, this makes no sense.

scrappindanny · 2013-01-23T02:13:39+00:00

relevant

Nobber123 · 2013-01-23T02:16:24+00:00

'MURICA

moe_sizlak · 2013-01-23T02:18:35+00:00

bleeding gums, rip

Shaneman · 2013-01-23T02:19:38+00:00

So, I'm guessing this is a repost.

I have no knowledge of this being a repost.

I am saying this simply because I saw this on facebook yesterday.

IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY

PeeWeeSpermin · 2013-01-23T02:25:23+00:00

My favorite rendition has to be Marvin Gaye's at the 1983 NBA all-star game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRvVzaQ6i8A

sillybeartoe · 2013-01-23T02:26:10+00:00

you should probably finish the song though

BlackestVoid · 2013-01-23T02:29:30+00:00

And when they hit the high note the crowd goes apeshit.

Lifebehindadesk · 2013-01-23T02:31:31+00:00

I just tried singing this and almost died.

funkbitch · 2013-01-23T02:42:50+00:00

This is how you sing the national anthem (Jose Feliciano)

Organs · 2013-01-23T02:43:23+00:00

I thank whoever put that together!

Trebulon5000 · 2013-01-23T02:47:43+00:00

Usually I see things on Reddit and then on Facebook later... First time seeing that reversed.

TH3_FORC3 · 2013-01-23T02:47:46+00:00

As someone who doesn't understand musical notes, this is like a sweet knock-knock joke written in Klingon.

Kakela · 2013-01-23T02:48:37+00:00

Tracy High band?

EstebanL · 2013-01-23T02:54:05+00:00

This is just a clusterfuck of notes.

Irnbruguy · 2013-01-23T03:07:37+00:00

National Anthem? Nah that's not God Save The Queen.

tomz17 · 2013-01-23T03:07:50+00:00

Enjoy this definitive masters class in how to do it right (Whitney 1991)

Matthicus · 2013-01-23T03:08:24+00:00

The best version, from the Naked Gun.

LizzieButtons · 2013-01-23T03:12:12+00:00

Ugh, drives me nuts. A few years ago, James Taylor sang the anthem at the Winter Classic. He just played his guitar and sang the notes, as written. No milking high notes, no weird pop coloratura. It was refreshing and beautiful.

TitaninMagellan · 2013-01-23T03:13:09+00:00

A hundred years ago a person who sang this way would be booed off the field because of their disrespect for the song.

WillTheGreat · 2013-01-23T03:14:46+00:00

I hate the shitty Marvin Gaye rip off "yeeaah" every artist thinks they should do towards the end of the Start Spangle Banner between "triumph shall" and wave. Listen let's not over emphasize your voice, Marvin Gaye was in the zone. You? Not so much. You're just a dick.

Tetelesthai · 2013-01-23T03:15:21+00:00

THANK YOU! Man, I hate the R&B vocal improv (EDIT: apparently called "Oversouling"). So annoying.

MeltingDog · 2013-01-23T03:18:01+00:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwpuJoIvMyA

ScHiZ0 · 2013-01-23T03:19:08+00:00

It seem there are only two types of pop vocals. Autotune for the completely tonedeaf, and screaming your head off with ridiculous vibrato in a "soulful" wailing for everyone else.

thenomeer · 2013-01-23T03:34:17+00:00

Weird... I was at a basketball game today and they weren't able to play it on a recording so we all sang it... Led by the announcer

joserskid · 2013-01-23T03:35:57+00:00

Any musician able to play this or better yet sing it for us?

For science of course.

FriendlyDespot · 2013-01-23T03:48:13+00:00

I fail to understand why this is done at all outside of international games. Anthems at sporting events are played because teams represent countries. That's not the case at domestic events.

classy_stegasaurus · 2013-01-23T04:13:09+00:00

Just once, I want someone to record this in the most show-off tone of voice possible. Something so in-your-face that it just screams AWESOME

naksidras · 2013-01-23T04:18:39+00:00

This is true for most of them, but this one is just spectacular.

wisebloodfoolheart · 2013-01-23T04:24:09+00:00

How come no one ever sings the other verses?

Kylesmomabigfatbtch · 2013-01-23T04:36:57+00:00

200th Upvote. Life is good!

simperingfool · 2013-01-23T04:37:27+00:00

Translationparty for the win, in the current vernacular that is.

For laughs check out the pledge and the presidential oath of office.

ckath · 2013-01-23T04:44:24+00:00

I went to a 4th July celebration once and the Singapore national anthem was sung in the exact same way... The poor flag bearers were having a hard time carrying those flags

firematt422 · 2013-01-23T04:44:42+00:00

It's interesting that you chose to arrange it in the Key of F. Scott

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