And he's asking me why I'm crying so hard. I think someday he'll understand. Thank you.

I am still crying from having seen it 10 mins ago and when I show it to Daniel in a minute we will flood the world with tears! We miss singing with you all so much.

@@susancherones1913 I'm crying now in May 5, 2021.

Amen! 😪✝️🛐🙏

My grandfather used to lead the singing in the Primitive Baptist Church where he went.

Haha, not the Brady Bunch indeed! Yes, I'm proud to be a little bit weird and to be part of many cool musical endeavours with other folks who are likewise a little bit weird. By the way Tim, I've long admired your music and hope to meet you one day. I'm an ethnomusicologist who studies the Republic of Georgia and Eastern Europe (did a Ph.D. in Illinois alongside Jonathon Smith, who got me into Sacred Harp), and "Balkan Fascination" is one of my favourite books.

Amen!

Wow! I guess you know we all owe him more than a bit of gratitude. His songs have lifted us UP. What a great uncle to have. Haha!

Hope you're feeling better, Edith!

Hey there Edie. Good to see ur still with us. God bless

You're in there, even if we couldn't here you. For real.

I am all better, dealing with my school being closed. Music is certainly a sovereign balm for every wound, a cordial for our fears. Thanks again.

@@edithberger9364 We are at it again. See sites.google.com/sageanalytica.com/quarantine-chorus-236/home

Hi Dan!

my understanding is that this didn't happen live but everyone recorded their parts individually and sent them to someone who edited this together

That's right--these parts were all recorded separately, while listening to a 4-part master track, and then edited together later. I've been a part of other online singing groups in the past 2 weeks and so far there isn't really a good solution for simultaneous sound. Programs which are meant for conference calling (like Zoom) usually default to whoever is loudest rather than putting sound from all participants through simultaneously--there can perhaps be two or three simultaneous sounds, but it gets trickier with larger groups. Even with small groups there is the issue of latency/delay, which seems kind of insurmountable. But I'm sure there are a lot of musical tech wizards who are working on this with a new kind of urgency these days. The best options right now are individual recording and mixing into a whole like this, or for a slightly more interactive experience on a conference call, you can mute all of the callers except for one. The others can sing along while listening to the unmuted performer. This works even better if there are two or more people calling from the unmuted device, since they can fill in more of the parts. If anyone's got a full (and capable) SATB quartet living in their house right now, I envy you!

@@jacobeiserman "Programs which are meant for conference calling (like Zoom) usually default to whoever is loudest rather than putting sound from all participants through simultaneously." Preach.

Again, there's no program at the moment that can make something like this happen without endless hours of editing. If there was it might be a rather different webscape.

@@TimEriksenMusicVideo Thanks very much.

If you're on Facebook, join the "Sacred Harp Friends" group and watch for announcements. They may do another one, although I think this was a lot of work for the video editor!

We all recorded our parts individually and submitted the video or audio file to Tim, Tim, and Rachel. I don't know what program they used to edit and mix all the videos into this final version.

Hey! I miss singing with you. But maybe soon, one way or another.

@@TimEriksenMusicVideo same here. Hope to sing together soon.

Not possible at the moment. Anyone who can figure out real-time music making online will surely make some money, and contribute to the greater good.

So are you saying that you didn’t do this in real time? Did you use zoom?

@@debbieweyl928 Each singer recorded their part individually (using a variety of programs) while singing along to Tim Eriksen's pre-recorded master track, then sent it in to be combined via video editing software.

Matthew Knight Thank you for explaining it was really amazing

Debbie Weyl it’s a composite- not zoom. It’s unfortunately still impossible to do something like this live

You might have already heard, but Zoom, Skype etc just don't work for this kind of thing. The only thing that works at the moment is ridiculous commitment to lots of editing for no potential personal gain.

Hmm...next time I have a chance at Wi-Fi I will have to look for the raccoon....

I kind of want to use that as a default reply to all videos.