CPAC Anthem Video A Cappella HARMONY!
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
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Vocal arrangement - François Pothier Bouchard
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This may be the most daring and effective international rescue effort ever undertaken.
😂😂😂
Chords Without Borders.
Nice
@@erikachang2919 or Chorders Without Borders :)
@@anneu53714 awesome! 😄
The Star-Mangled Banner:
"Hey lady what key do you want?"
"All of them."
As many keys as you hand out to your admirers.
You give em to me and I'll flatten em!
“Also, let’s go to E half Sharp... Just for the ✨Spice✨
"Aaaa....R Demolished.....If you please."
As greedy as all the Nazis at CPAC
I am supremely proud to be Canadian at this moment.
me also 😂 Also discouraged as a sort of professional singer with WAY less work than this girl on tv 😂😂 Like, why are they giving her air time and not me 🥺😵
Sabrina Keyes, your last name obviously disqualifies you. I grew up 4 miles on the wrong side of the border. Should have walked to Manitoba and defected when I had the chance. Winnipeg is a lovely city. Thanks for hanging in with us as we look and some of us behave like complete assholes. And good luck singing....you'll find your way.
Thanks! Maybe next time we'll sing O Canada!
@@sabrinagabrielle4799 EXACTLY! So much for 35 years of voice lessons and performing.... I guess our invitations got lost in the mail. Not that I would have accepted it.
Wish I could be!!!
The anthem for our times... a dystopian Star-Spangled Banner.
Nailed it.
Right! Strange dark shades of dread detected. I think it's an accurate description of the USA.
@@joansutton As someone that currently lives in the USA, I would agree.
You took the word right out of my mouth.
perfect for the GoP
This version by Francis Scott Keychange is better than the original.
Goddam, what an amazing joke!
Damn you, and thank you, you glorious bastard!
Francis Scott Keychange made my day. And there's a LOT of high quality comments on this particular performance.
She sure tortured that anthem - who knew it could be fixed.
Legit just cracked up at this comment
My favorite part of this is that you actually harmonized the little wobble when she holds out "free". Unbelievable attention to detail lol
Thank you, Canada!! Signed an embarrassed American.
honestly. this almost made her star strangled banner rendition better.
I am joining you.
@@chyraaa It 100% made her rendition better.
I’m starting to think the original singer is an artistic genius on another level we don’t understand. Luckily these renditions are helping me understand.
Lol it's 5D Chess tuning for sure.
Andy Kaufman of our times.
Yes... only a Stable Genius (TM) could understand this...
Actually she might be with time and experience? 😐🤷♀️. She's got talent and skill but it's not honed properly. At all.
It's like she's someone's niece who had no guidance or knowledge whatsoever but taught herself.
Or was taught by someone with no talents or give a shits themselves. ?
@@mirzamay Or....she might be deaf?? ;)
"Not only did she change keys... she changed locks, doors and addresses" est mon commentaire préféré sous la vidéo originale 🤣
Beau sauvetage les gars 😉
hahahaha this comment should win the internets
je l'aime 😂😂
WOW, I was just going to say they were flat a few times.
😅🤣😂
😆😂
Can we talk about whoever this AMAZING bass is?!?!
François Dubé aka fa2
Amazing bass.
How sweet the sound.
I don't know how you harmonise with half keys that are more akin to microtuning, but you guys did it! Brilliant! :)
Because equal temperament is a lie
Thanks! Quite a challenge to take up, but no challenge is too great for our arranger!
Decades ago, when I first started accompanying singers, I asked one of the singing teachers whether singers sing in tempered or pure intonation, to which he replied that they typically don't sing accurately enough to make a difference. For some of these National Anthem performances(?!), I've often wished to resurrect my setup of quarter-tone pianos...
That's the benefit of having the backing be the human voice -- some of the keyboard versions I've seen are great, but there's still the matter of the microtones; here, they turned it to their advantage!
I reckon a touch of melodyne helps!
New rule: Only Canadians are allowed to sing the Star Spangled Banner.
As someone from The States... you make some good points
Seems fair
Have you seen the video of the French Canadian woman who forgets the lyrics and falls on the ice twice though? lol
@@katknutson2948 As someone also from the States, I would happily outsource this labyrinthine tune.
@@rfrolicarts I have now! Poor woman; I am embarrassed for her. The CPAC singer, not so much : D
This is the kindest-hearted attempt so far to salvage this young lady‘s debut. Even the wobble on her „high,“ interminable, quasi C# was lovingly integrated as a sort of mordent.
Mordent en merde? lol
Do you mean „Eat s*** and diet“ ? Not my take ...
@@Athoseye laugh emoji
Whoa, salty
That would be „la mer“ with its (her) salinity.
Guys, your harmonies were so interesting that it made this lady sound so much better than she deserves to sound. It was only when she was singing in the cracks between the different keys that she was beyond help.
Actually, they even managed to swing through those cracks and make it sound intentional. Well, it was on their part...
@@suegarland8355 The guys were fantastic. In those spots it was the poor girl's notes that gave me a shoulder scrunch. She should refuse to sing again unless she has these guys behind her. Maybe not, she probably would never sing it exactly that way again.
I'm an arranger, and I can't imagine doing this. Thank you François Pothier Bouchard. Would love to hear some of your "real" music.
Thanks Bob! You may have a look at our channel to hear more of our "real" music! ;)
This sounds legit to me! Bravo!
This man arranged Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays' music for big band. This is the real deal
Is this "the" Bob Curnow?
Hi Bob, I see that you played trombone and wrote for Kenton.. I played bass and bari sax for years for the LAJI concets in LA. I realize you have done more since then, but I knew I recognized your name.
That is the most brillant thing I ever heard. Yes, we did laugh at her a lot at first, but the real challenge was to make her sound good no matter what.
Fantastic voicings and changes! I’m speechless!
Couldn't agree more with you, Vincent! They really did a fantastic rescue job! Props to QW4TZ!
And she should be speechless too!
You know, in some ways, making her sound good... and she actually does sound good with this accompaniment... is symbolic for all of us uniting despite the mistakes (some intentional) by various politicians. But, seriously, nobody has been trying to make her sound WORSE!! What does that tell us? Something to ponder....
@@studiowizard6286 or we could double down on taking out the trash. I understand the merit of your suggestion, but it just becomes a form of enabling. Do we really want to throw tremendous effort into making a Trump tolerable, or just get him the fuck out of there and put all that energy behind someone with a conscience?
@@mikemartin5749 We'll Trump's a lost cause, so no! LOL I was more referring to helping each other out, but yes, there is a fine line between supporting and enabling.
Dayum. A lot of hilarious arrangements of this, but you took that hot mess and actually made it into a killer arrangement. I don't know how you made head or tales of it, but nice work. I need to hear more work from Bouchard.
Bouchard reminds me of Pete Rugalow who used to arrange for the original Four Freshmen.
I missed that album The Four Freshmen sing Charles Ives.
I grew up listening to The Four Freshmen! I was thinking this arrangement reminded me of their work. Absolutely brilliant.
This is why you don’t use your position or power to force your daughters “talent” on people.
Well, if the only thing CPAC forced on me was the daughter's "talent," I would take the giggles and call it a day.
Not someone's daughter unless I'm mistaken.... She's a conservative youtuber but she's since taken her channel down
@@clea14 by definition, someone's daughter, but maybe not an influential person.
@@lmena5696 I'm hoping you didn't think I literally meant she wasn't someone's daughter
@@lmena5696 r/technicallythetruth
If this doesn’t win a Grammy I don’t know what would.
AMEN!!
no, a juno.
125th comment.
Canada deserves the Nobel peace prize for salvaging What was left of our national anthem after the GOP violated it and left it for dead.
The lady standing next to her deserves an Oscar for keeping a straight face.
Some terrific musicians here, except the blond woman in the middle🤣
that's the joke
@@JureJerebic He knows.
She is not blind she is deaf.
Bold of you to assume she's a musician 😆
I'm currently a jazz student, taking arranging, choir and jazz theory. We just discussed playing outside the changes and contrafacts, and you've provided a perfect example! Brilliant!!
Don't want to be pedantic, but I wouldn't really call this playing outside the changes or an example of a contrafact.
Playing outside the changes would be creating a melody outside of the "normal" harmony, not changing the harmony to tonally fit melody.
A contrafact is a new melody on a different set of tune's changes. This is an arrangement of the same melody.
@@trevorsmith8950 All good points. I was actually thinking of the soloist as the one singing outside, especially since I had to write an 'out' exercise last week and found it a real challenge to sing with the assigned backing track. We've been having discussions in class about how much different (and often easier) it is to play out than to sing out. I can pick up my sax and just play what I spent a couple of hours trying to sing.
I swear, I just had my first vocal coaching session yesterday. I was told my voice sounds good, but hit the right key on top, don't slide around into it. I was told the result can be confusing. The universe sent me this video today. Lesson learned the easy way. Poor lady, I hope she can recover.
Liquid Tension Experiement need to get on this.
Perfect example of why we need to remember Canada is our friend!
It clearly shows the original 12-tone Schoenbergian intention.
This was like listening to music while falling asleep with a 104 degree fever…
After singing this they all hid in a small dark room, binging on poutine, weeping.
Oh no don't worry, we always do this before singing, not after.
In this version she is 100% in tune. This is what pianists can't do. Bravo.
You're right; it's hard for a pianist to keep up when she's singing in the cracks.
It's possible they tuned her slightly digitally. But the result is fabulous!
@@palladin331 I played this and the original at the same time. They didn't change her one bit.
@@DSAhmed OK. Thanks.
Actually if you listen closely enough you will see that there are some places where the micro tone shifts couldn't be compensated for completely - it's not 100% but it's pretty darned close .
Now THAT is astonishing that you could make Sailor's microtonal drifting sound "right".
If this were an accompaniment competition, QW4RTZ wins the Blue Ribbon. This is the 4th accompaniment video I've seen for her 'rendition', and this is some really remarkable talent.
Of course, voices can "adjust" in a way that a keyboard-type instrument cannot, but this sort of key "matching" is super remarkable.
Absolute genius. People, I'm not sure many of you would actually understand the depth of craft and talent it takes to create such beauty from musical detritus.And sung with such majesty. I am in awe.
As someone with "perfect pitch" who has often been paid to transcribe from recordings, I do get it, and would not have been able to do it myself even though I could transcribe it (more or less, with some "phantom" key signatures.)
Notice how voices have the unique ability to microtune? Piano, etc cannot do that. These guys made her actually sound more in tune. Amazing. This is THE one.
Wowwwww. The part where she said “banner yet wave” melted my ears and this made them normal again.
Okay this wins--hands down 😂😂😂 There have been many musical jokes made about this poor woman's performance, but this tops them ALL!! Well done good sirs!!
Holy crap that was amazing. Made lemonade out of some very sour lemons. 🤩
Those Canadians!
Four brave, daring and talented Canadian singers almost salvage the American national anthem.
Thanks guys for your superhuman effort.
Clearly this is the only correct way to perform the national anthem going forward. Thank you.
I'd love to see a future Democratic Party event bring these guys in (and a lead singer who could do that intentionally) for their anthem.
Kudos for managing to find harmonies when literally every note is potentially in a completely different key and the rhythm is random!
I think this is called making a silk purse out of a sow's arse. Sneering aside, it's actually stunning, smart, and beautiful.
First of all, being a musician, and having been a member of the 129th Army Band for 28 years, and having played the National Anthem many, many times, I have come to the conclusion that the only way to present the National Anthem, is by a military band, or similar to. The National Anthem is not dirge, or a pop song. It is supposed to be played with gusto. When they let these bimbos attempt to sing the National Anthem, they can’t sing it straight, they have to sing it like they are doing a show!
@@alchea3149 I am agreement with that sentiment. My orchestration teacher was always telling us if the arraignment does not better the piece, it is not good enough.
We spent the semester going over Pictures at an Exhibition. I think this vocal group made a compelling version. I must say, it is growing on me. Thanks for your service.
@@alchea3149 - I thought the version by Lady Gaga, and the Marine Band, at the Presidential Inauguration was as good as I've ever heard - for the reasons you state.
Well said everyone. I have to agree. So true. Whats happened to society? Really??? Is there no class anymore?
This. Is. Everything.
Canada, THANK YOU. You've always been the real MVP.
Well, if this extremely talented quartet can’t save the pitch-meandering rendition of what I think was meant to be our national anthem, then nobody can. At times their harmonies are quite stunning, none the less. They almost make this train wreck listenable.
It *almost* didn’t make my skin crawl with the pitch changes when they did it this way! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Actually I think it's beautiful. So disturbing and subtle.
I've seen several piano/keyboardists play along, but you gentleman took the cake on this one!
This is one of the most amazing arrangements and vocal performances I've ever heard.
Oh Canada...The brilliant yet nuanced shade of it all!! It’s the waver on “free” that won my heart! Bravo!
i have watched this so many times that it is now unironically my favorite rendition of the national anthem to date, beautifully done, thank u all for your service
Oh My Goodness, they execute the key changes with razor sharp precision! Now that is some serious talent right there! Well done chaps!
Joke aside (and it's a good one), this is really, really brilliant musically.
I seriously doubt if anyone at CPAC noticed.
Oh, I would have noticed.
People who clap on 1 and 3
They've been tone deaf for decades.
The entire audience was raised on participation trophies.
Spectacular. I've been enjoying the piano accompaniments, and this is a wonderful variation on the theme.
The Un-Mangled Banner. Thanks for trying to fix the impossible.
Lol, this is so close to making sense of the original cacophony! ❤️
OMG, when you harmonized her voice crack at 1:37, I lost it
Wow! I can’t believe anyone was able to make this sound good. Way to go!
No one did.
Actually, they harmonized her bad harmony with her - a very hard thing to pull off in four-part harmony, believe me!!!!
I never thought this possible, to turn that performance into an actual piece of music is incredible. You really made my day!
this is a solid gold Canadian rescue unit right here.
If I were the president, I would choose this version at my inauguration.
Wow, you saved it! Thanks, Canada!
Really loving these avant garde minor key segments for the American Anthem.
Republicans had the singer they deserve: Tone deaf, veering off course and completely self assured, like their policies.
Damn, you read them for filth! Haha. I love it.
😄Hahaha, perfect, no one can say it better!👍👍
dead onnnnnn. Plus, their lemming followers just mindlessly accepting/congratulating/fawning over them regardless of what's actually happening.
Come on, this was an absolutely stunning rendition, compared to the quality of the other performances.
Well said!
This is like an accidental Jacob Collier cover of a song. I can’t stop listening.
I've never heard anything sounding so bad and so good at the same time!
This is the best fix I have ever heard!! That was absolutely fantastic! Kudos to those men. They have hearts of gold. While the girl is obviously pitchy (often sings flat) and she obviously can't solidify a tonal center, she actually has a nice voice and these men made her voice sparkle. With some training on how to center her pitch and anchor herself in tonality (interval training would really help her), she has some potential. These men though.... They are heroes.
Absolutely stunning, both musically and technically!
Those Canadians, always being so nice, helping this girl out.
Just masterful stuff. Far from mocking the performance, in my view this arrangement is a compassionate act of musical altruism that actually almost redeems it. When I'm accompanying a soloist, I want to help them sound as good as possible, even when they screw up. This arrangement does that, generously, and even beautifully. Kudos!
You must be at least part Canadian. Or if not, how about honorary? 😬😎
@@totophi hahaha!! I'll take it just in case the trumpists reclaim the throne and I need to sneak my family across the border!
I am FLABBERGASTED at how you turned this into like... a weird.... beautiful chromatic arrangement.... that is like??? Haunting??? At times??? Wow
I keep checking again, to see if I still like it.
At least a year later:
Yup, love it. You're practically the only reason CPAC is in my dictionary. I've memorized it now.
This would bring tears to the eyes of Francis Scott Key.
I think this version was by Francis Scott Micro-key
Well deserved tears.
Lolol. Great job, guys.
With the lemon, we shall make lemonade.
I love how they even harmonise with the quarter/microphones. Jolly well done
This is what real, trained musicians can do with a supremely challenging assignment. It ain't karaoke night at the local watering hole...
Thank you generous of spirit, and brilliantly gifted neighbors to the North.
Okay, that's some damn impressive arranging!
Whoever was on the low bass - wow! Also, using voices only helped when she slips into the key of F-about-half-flat.
God bless Canada! Thanks for the assist. It was sorely needed.
Many ears were still lost, but their courage to face the music will be long remembered.
Literally singing circles around her lack of tonal continuity. Y'all are brilliant!!
WHAAAAAAAT!!! You guys are awesome! It's such a treat to hear this after hearing many of the other arrangements that "just" transpose along with the singer. yummy!
Wow! These guys make every spontaneous modulation sound like a pre-planned contemporary innovation. Way to go! Save the wildly strange performance by making it sound like everything works, harmonically, no matter where it goes. Brilliant!
This has brought me endless joy in the last few days. Superb work.
This is really the 21st century premiere of a newly discovered Motet by Gesualdo, “Ohimè, sei il mio mare d'amore” (“Oh say, you're my sea of love”). 🎶😚
I remarked earlier that it sounded like Gesualdo. Chromatic, daring, and slightly mad.
Context is everything.
I feel like this is the official Star Spangled Banner of the Trump years. The only way to properly remember this time in our history.
I'm laughing so hard I'm in tears! These guys are amazing!
Good acappella singers know you need to constantly retune to maintain a pure sound. Great job guys!
You follow whoever has the melody - wherever that may take you. And pray there isn't a band coming in with a big finish chord in the original key. The musicality of these guys is off the charts.
Beautifully done. You made meandering key changes seem like impassioned and dramatic choices. We should all be so lucky to have your accompaniment.
As a fellow Canadian, I am proud that you have put a positive spin on this with your talent, rather than belittling the young girl. The world needs much more positivity. VERY CREATIVE! Thank you, Guys.
I've heard some really elegant arrangements on this unfortunate attempt but you guys, by virtue of the fact that you can even track with her when she wanders completely into the cracks off the tempered scale, have the best! It almost sounds intentional. Manifique, gentlemen!
Brilliantly talented. Wow
This is why Canada is here for you US folks!!! 🇨🇦💪
I think it's 100% appropriate that someone who doesn't believe in music should sing the national anthem to open a conference for people who don't believe in science!
I was waiting for the LOL's and then realised too late this was a rescue attempt
What you guys did with her as the lead vocalist should be considered the ninth wonder of the world! How did you do that? It’s just feels as if Jesus came back and said, “You know what? I think I’m a let God handle this because he’s the creator and I’m the son and this is a creator a type of job!”
Haha thanks! There is no challenge too great for our arranger François Pothier Bouchard!
It's a phenomenal arrangement and incredible musicianship all around!
@@Qw4rtz whomever they are I’d love to be a part of one of those arrangements!!! Omg!
Those Harmony guys have some mad skill talent matching her keys!! She has more keys than a high school janitor
Amazing! These guys manage to ferret out a fun house mirror sense of musicality in the wildly overconfident and woefully under-rehearsed young lady's performance.
Drop all mics ! Especially hers! Seriously you gents are glorious!
you guys should have been on stage with her. this sounds better " alot " with the 4 of you singing background vocals !!!
Bet it would sound even better with just the four of them!
François Pothier Bouchard is a genius for turning that around! Beautiful! Well done! :D
This needs to be in the top 10 trending
Jazz exploration of G#, G natural, B flat and whatever time signature she was in...3/4 or 4/4, what's the difference?
A noble attempt boys. You ALMOST succeeded in making her sound like a singer.
Composer here: That was fantastic - both as a performance and as an arrangement! Bravi!
coming back to this masterpiece 2 years later. that this doesnt have millions (and millions) of views is nothing short of a scandal.
can only repeat what i said back then - the reharmonizations that range from clever to cheeky to insane to downright hilarious...the presentation...the not-from-this-planet precision in adjusting to her intonation drift here, yet "rationalizing by recontextualizing" it there, the seamless switching between these two approaches...this is just so so so so good on all levels.
ive been doing this stuff professionally for +30 years, i have perfect pitch, so i can appreciate every move implemented here, but thats not bragging, because this wipes the floor with anything i could have imagined, so i only mention this to underline from which perspective i take the deepest bow humanly possible :-)
and now, since im here, let me watch it again, and discover lovely detail nr.73 and 74 :-)