African World Music Composition - Toby Barnett

[Velusius]

Do you give concerts with your 40 alter ego's? because if that so i would like to invite you!

[coolestvox]

WOW>>>one guy did all the parts? WOW!!....i love to sing along with the different parts on different plays...Masterpiece!!!!!!!!!

[tobibarnet]

@coolestvox Yep! Just me x 40 :) Thanks!

[CSolomonEllis]

@coolestvox no one guy didnt do this...this was done by a Zambia tribe but it was composed by toby barnett NOT TOBI barnett but TOBY

[tobibarnet]

@CSolomonEllis Don't know what Zambia tribe you mean, but this is just me singing!

[Swampwoodsman]

@tobibarnet dude your as full a shit as a christmas turkey. only a fool would belive that shit.

[tobibarnet]

@Swampwoodsman I think you'll find YOU are the one who's 'full of shit'. Seriously, I could very easily prove that I did in fact write and record this entire track. Do you always have this reaction to things you quite clearly have no ability to comprehend?!

[Zachary0701]

@tobibarnet Awesome song man ^.^ -subscribes-

[tobibarnet]

@Zachary0701 thanks :)

[Zachary0701]

@tobibarnet :D

[bastianbrennanbaum]

reminds me of Adiemus. great harmonies!

[muzzybear1]

Yes - exactly what i meant. They love singing and they so good at it. Your Vid just reminded how good they after a trip to africa in the early 90's.

[muzzybear1]

What a harmony. They always could sing.

[tobibarnet]

@muzzybear1 Who could always sing? :P It's only me in this song, no other singers/musicians :) If you mean African music in general though, yes! You're right.. some of the songs I listened to as inspiration are quite incredible :)

[LaughOutLoudWithMeXX]

Lion King is the ultimate disney movie because of the music composition, simply epic! Did wonders for my imagination when i was little...X

[BurraqSalaam]

the other 13,333 views are mine...

[JonathanAschalew]

0:27 mbira?.. hope you passed this assignment with ease :)

[DoctorUnplugged]

I don't want to sound like a cheap skate scrounger. but I love this song and wouldn't mind if a download linked popped up some time soon. :D

[todanceXtolive]

amazing. sounds like it came out of something epic like the lion king. :).

[tobibarnet]

@todanceXtolive Thank you! Yeah, that was one of the sources of inspiration.. along with Adiemus, by karl Jenkins :)

[SHASHAQUADADNIESHA]

@tobibarnet u did all this by yourself :O

[tobibarnet]

@SHASHAQUADADNIESHA Yep :) All vocals/Instrumental parts written and recorded by me :)

[TheNatedagreat4]

@todanceXtolive itz jus dat pure afikan music haha

[DDbRowN67]

very beautiful! wow!!!  it is awe inspiring!

[MichaelMusic1]

oh wow this is very cool. do you mind if i use it for a video im doing for kenya? its for an orphanage in Likipi. I can post it as a response

[nickunick]

I keep coming back to listen to this - and pump up de volyoom! Really thumping good work Toby! Lots of hard work, putting it all together, too!

[ferret008]

great stuff ;-)

[weatherman102]

I envy your musical talent! Just out of curiosity, what are the lyrics to this piece, and what's the lowest bass note in this piece? It sounds like F# but my speakers aren't the greatest for hearing bass lol.

[weatherman102]

Lowest note that you sing in this piece, forgot to clarify that...

[tobibarnet]

@weatherman102 ..The lowest bass vocals are quite hard to hear, as the string accompaniment has masked them quite a bit. You are right though. In the verses I get down to the F#, one and a half octaves below middle C (at 0.36 and 1.28) Also, at the end of the choruses I just managed to hit a B above middle C! I need more practice :P think i might have said somewhere before, there are 40 vocal parts going on through most of the song! Took quite a while to record them all haha :P

[danhale14]

That is talent.

[tobibarnet]

@danhale14  Thankyou!! :)

[tobibarnet]

@weatherman102 Hiya! thank you :) The lyrics are made up and don't actually mean anything haha :D I just wrote down random phrases that sounded nice, while listening to the accompaniment. They're mainly just a mixture of vowels and a few random Swahili words. just stuff like  'kuramana awey kavu, ewahmana quetu awey akahvaa' as far as I know, they have no meaning! :P

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[sandim123]

Great job :D Harmonizers make songs sound super pro

[tobibarnet]

@sandim123 Hey, thanks for the comment. Funny that you jumped to the conclusion that I used a harmonizer in this.. I did infact, sing all the parts in this song I wrote. There is a four part harmony + an extra lower bass part. For each vocal harmony, I sang it through 8 times. In a lot of the song, there are up to 40 individual voices by me, playing at once. Hope this makes sence :)

Thanks