Auditioned for a thing tonight

"Alfalfa" (alfalfa-romeo) 04/11/2018 at 23:13 • Filed to: None

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I fucking nailed it and they love me.

I will be singing the US national anthem in exchange for tickets to various Motorsports events, and even the Canadian anthem a couple times.

Now to learn Oh Canada...

Svend > Alfalfa 04/11/2018 at 23:26

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Congratulations mate.

Are you going to do English or mixed English and French for the Canadian national anthem?

Also you could mess with some by singing The Maple Leaf Forever. Lol. Only kidding, best not.

Alfalfa > Svend 04/11/2018 at 23:28

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I’m assuming English. They were so impressed that I acted like it was no problem to learn it at all, I may blow their minds if I offer to learn it in French.

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > Alfalfa 04/11/2018 at 23:47

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Is it sad that being born and raised in the Chicago suburbs, I can sing o’canada better than the star spangled banner? I can’t do it in French but I still think my rendition is pretty good

Svend > Alfalfa 04/11/2018 at 23:47

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Congrats again mate.

I’m sure you’ll knock it right out the park.

Be thankful you don’t have to learn the British national anthem and United Kingdom national anthems.

For some the question with the British anthem is, do you learn one verse, two verses or three verses.

Then there’s the English, Northern Irish, Scottish and Welsh anthems.

Alfalfa > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 04/11/2018 at 23:59

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The Star Spangled Banner is a bit of a bitch of a song. It’s not for the faint of heart.

ttyymmnn > Alfalfa 04/12/2018 at 00:00

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Oh Canada is a better song. The Star Spangled Banner is awkward and its got too great a range for most people.

Congrats.

Alfalfa > Svend 04/12/2018 at 00:08

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Thanks!

Alfalfa > ttyymmnn 04/12/2018 at 00:15

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Oh definitely. I feel like a national anthem should be a song that’s not too difficult for everyone to sing, The Star Spangled Banner is not that. America The Beautiful would have been a much better choice. Or we could have just stuck with Battle Hymn, because it’s so kick-ass.

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > Alfalfa 04/12/2018 at 00:21

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congrats. I’ve heard the French/English version about a zillion times. I can speak very crude French, and know many French-Canadian dirty words. But I’ve never had any clue What the French parts of O Canada even are.

ttyymmnn > Alfalfa 04/12/2018 at 00:31

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I’m definitely in the America the Beautiful camp. It’s a song about the country, not about a flag during some obscure battle in a forgotten war. Interestingly, the SSB wasn’t made the official national anthem until 1931. I remember hearing an earlier version of the song, before it became standardized. It was missing the raised fourth (secondary dominant) in the third measure. I liked it that way.

As a musician, I feel pretty strongly about the song. Even though I don’t care for it musically, it drives me nuts when people turn it into the Star Spangled Ballad. And everybody makes such a big deal about Whitney Houston’s version, but she sang it in 4/4 because you can’t have a back beat in 3/4. I think there should be a more or less standard version of the song, but I get that we’re a country all about freedoms, so we can sing it any way we please. But if I had to pick, I’d go with the performance by the US Marine Band and call it a day.

Alfalfa > ttyymmnn 04/12/2018 at 00:35

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Ugh, yes, I hate it when people ham it up too much. Or at all, really.

ttyymmnn > Alfalfa 04/12/2018 at 00:43

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Though I must say, I dug Lady Gaga’s performance at the Super Bowl.

Alfalfa > ttyymmnn 04/12/2018 at 01:06

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I was pleasantly surprised. I knew she had the ability to do a good job, but like everyone else feared that her theatricality would take hold.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Alfalfa 04/12/2018 at 03:28

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oh canada

your drugs are cheaper than ours are

twas something like that im sure

anyway.. congrats :)

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > ttyymmnn 04/12/2018 at 12:14

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Not to mention it’s a racist song . But hey, national anthems are supposed to encompass the country’s identity, right*?

*I’m half joking here, at most