Angels We Have Heard on High

Lenore Person | Posted on December 2, 2020 |

Dear South Church Folks,

Sending warm wishes to you all. I’d love to put together a video collage of us all singing ANGELS WE HAVE HEARD ON HIGH for the big Christmas Sunday Service on December 20. If you are able and willing, can you dive in with us and have a little fun? Below are recording instructions. Here are sheet music, a lyrics sheet (because let’s be real we all know the melody) and a playback track for you to listen to as you sing so we’re all in the same key and tempo.

Please upload videos to this Google folder by Sunday, December 13.

MATERIALS:

printed Sheet Music and/or lyrics sheet (attached)
awesome Performance Track MP3 (attached)
playback device (phone, iPod, walkman, etc) + headphones to play awesome Performance Track MP3
video recording device (computer, phone, vid camera, etc) with either external or built-in microphone. Mac users can use Quicktime Player to make a new movie recording.
quiet room with no background noise

AUDIO:

If you have a nice mic to plug into your phone or computer, awesome. If not, that’s ok. Your phone/computer/tablet mic will be sufficient. Playback should be loud enough to hear while you are singing full-out.

VIDEO:

Stand if you can (it’s better for singing)
Record in LANDSCAPE position (wide, not tall)
Have your face take up most of the screen — we don’t need to see torsos and feet, unless you want to have someone’s feet make a cameo in your video.
Try to keep sheet music offscreen.
Background: Tasteful and clean. A Christmas tree perhaps? Or a snow-cone machine?

STEPS TO RECORD:

Download sheet music and mp3 and practice.
Warm up your voice before recording. Here’s an awesome warm-up video. Warm and tall vowels. Engage your core. Do some yawn-sighs.
Set up playback device and headphones. Make sure playback of mp3 is loud enough to hear as you sing. If recording multiple people, then person with headphones must lead everyone (bob head, move arms)
Set up camera.
Press RECORD on camera. Breathe.
Breathe again and then press PLAY on playback device.
Count out loud along with me! (This helps with the editing process)
Do your awesome take.
Stop camera.
Save video and name “Angels_LastName” (so for me, it’d be “Angels_Khosrowpour”)
If you’re happy and you know it, upload your awesome video to this Google folder.

ADDITIONAL TIPS:

YES to have other family members sing with you, even if just on certain parts of the song. Pets included!
Also, don’t worry about the extra time at the beginning and the end of the video recording. If you know how to trim videos, awesome, please do it. If not, I can do that on my end.
Don’t worry about being perfect! That’s what auto-tune is for!
Just have fun and enjoy the music. Sing sing sing!

I think that’s it! Please email me at amir@amirpiano.com if you have any questions.

THANK YOU!!! And remember to have fun!

Truly best wishes,
Amir

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