Harmony U - Aura Lee (Parody)

Tenor: Ryan Griffith
Lead: Tim Waurick
Baritone: Simon Rylander
Bass: Kyle Kitzmiller

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• barber
• shop
• harmony
• university
• tag
• aura
• lee
• parody

[atteheikkinen]

And that is why you should never use vibrato....

[FineyLeee]

@trlkly Voce

[OscillatingEthmoid]

@COMALiteJ I've actually heard a group synch their vibratos before. The end result was a tremendous, earth-shaking sound. Too bad it only lasted the 2 to 3 seconds that they were synched (out of pure coincidence).

[QuartetmanIA]

A few years ago, during our "quarteting break", our then Program VP put together a pickup quartet of four members who always sings with a vibrato to sing a polecat. lol

[BHS2011able]

@jakethewoz every heard of the vocal majority? no vibrato and they sound about 50% their size. Everyoones vibrato is unique and near impossible to blend. sing without it and you can make good quality ringing tones and generate amazing overtones.

[COMALiteJ]

@jakethewoz, True, but vibrato also destroys the precise Just Intonation tuning needed to make Barbershop chords “ring.” For Just Intonation to work, the pitches have to be PRECISE. For vibrato to work with JI, everyone would have to vibrato in PERFECT SYNCH — same exact rate, depth, and phase, throughout. Good luck pulling that off with a Quartet, let alone a Chorus!

That said, in quartets, it’s generally considered acceptable for the MELODY ONLY to have a SLIGHT vibrato on sustained vowels.

[atteheikkinen]

@jakethewoz But it breaks the lock of the chord... Unless of course every singers voice vibrates with the exact same frequency :) I think it's ok if it's used at the end of a phrase or when someone has a solo with the other three parts being quiet. Are you saying that the lack of vibrato is unhealthy?

[jakethewoz]

@atteheikkinen

I really hope you're joking. Vibrato is a natural phenomenon that occurs when a singer is singing with a focused sound and USING AIR (something that is all too rare in most quartets). I think it's a real shame that there's an apparent contempt for healthy singing in barbershop. I don't know why more people don't idolize the technique of Ox, Rich Knight, Boston Common etc.

[nzbbs]

wtf is up with simons videos.. they all have weird videography of zooming into things

[trlkly]

What is this a parody of?

[kitztracks]

Cab driver, drive by Mary's place!