A fairly well-known song, right? I read a book that got into the history, and how there are people who insist it be a certain way (very fast, matter-of-fact), but it’s arguably the most interpreted song at least in American culture, the most versatile, and it famously began life as something else entirely…Easy to take for granted, and perhaps a sign of the times it really has been, recently, which would be a bizarre reality for a lot of people dating back the hundred years or so it’s been a bedrock of national lore (composed more than two hundred years ago, during the War of 1812 but didn’t become the anthem until 1931), down to the moment Jimi Hendrix performed his radical reinvention at Woodstock.
Notoriously difficult to sing. The range is a perfect 12th: an octave plus a fifth. That's why one should always begin in as low as their range as possible. You can hear when people get in trouble with it and it's always because they started too high.
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Notoriously difficult to sing. The range is a perfect 12th: an octave plus a fifth. That's why one should always begin in as low as their range as possible. You can hear when people get in trouble with it and it's always because they started too high.
Ha. I’m not a great singer by any stretch but I think I figured out how to hit the notes. Not a great singer but I guess I’ve got the range.
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