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A cappella choir workshop with Stuart Davis - 04. Part 3 - harmony

What's missing? Anyone tell me? We've got like a tune, and we've got a bit of a rhythm, and we've got some energy happening now. What could we do to improve it a bit?

Harmony?

Some harmony, excellent. OK. Generally, there's always some harmony, yeah? So we start to have to break up into different groups, yeah? So I'm just going to do it randomly here. Yeah? I'm going to say-- [HUMS]. I'm going to say these guys here. This is just a big bunch of red ones.

[LAUGHTER]

I'm going to say you older ones are going to-- I'm going to try and get to you over there. There's a bunch of older guys over there. [SINGIING] Go where I send thee. That's us. Are you ready?

[SINGING] Go where I send thee.

Go where I send thee.

Go where I send thee.

So we're going to sing-- over here, we're singing [SINGIING] little children, go where I send thee. That's us.

[SINGING] Little children, go where I send thee.

Go where I send thee.

Go where I send thee.

Excellent. One, two, three.

[SINGING] Little children, go where I send thee.

Yes. One more time. One, two.

[SINGING] Little children, go where I send thee.

Beautiful. [SINGING] How shall I send thee?

How shall I send thee?

Oh, very nice. So we've got [SINGING] go where I send thee.

How shall I send thee?

Yeah, it goes down four steps. [WORDLESS SINGING] Yeah, you ready for it? One, two.

[SINGING] Little children, go where I send thee. How shall I send thee?

Beautiful. [SINGING] Go where I send thee.

[LAUGHTER]

You ready? [SINGING] Go where I send thee. One, two, three.

[SINGING] Go where I send thee.

Too easy. [SINGING] How shall I send thee?

How shall I send thee?

That's it. That's how we're going to learn, yes? [SINGING] Go where I send thee.

How shall I send thee? Go where I send thee. How shall I send thee?

[WORDLESS SINGING] Just those four notes, yeah? One, two, three. Little children.

[SINGING] Go where I send thee. How shall I send thee?

Little children-- one, two.

[SINGING] Little children, go where I send thee. How shall I send thee?

[INAUDIBLE]

[SINGING] Go. Go.

Yeah? Sing it for me. One, two, three, four.

[SINGING] Go where I send thee. How shall I send thee?

Little children-- one, two, three.

[SINGING] Little children, go where I send thee. How shall I send thee?

One more time. One, two.

[SINGING] Little children, go where I send thee. How shall I send thee?

Beautiful! You guys are going to go [SINGING] little children. Like that. You ready?

[SINGING] Little children.

And then you're going to go [SINGING] go where I send thee. Big like that. Start at the beginning.

[SINGING] Little children.

[CLAPS]

Go where I send thee.

Next bit.

[SINGING] How shall I send thee?

Nice and slow like that, yeah, so we can enjoy the harmony. We're going to hear them sing. [SINGING] Little children go. We're going to come in there, yeah?

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

[SINGING] Go! Go! Shh! Go! You ready? Shh!

[SINGING] Little children, Go! Go! Go! Where I send thee.

Next bit.

[SINGING] How shall I send thee?

Got the idea? Everyone. [SINGING] I'm going to send thee one by one. One for the little bitty baby. Yeah? Here we go. [SINGING] Little children, go. Here we go.

[SINGING] Little children, go where I send thee.

Excellent.

[SINGING] How shall I send thee?

[CLAPPING]

I'm going to send thee one by one. One for the little bitty baby. He was born, born, born in Bethlehem.

How was that? One more thing. [SINGING] One for the little bitty baby. He was born. Big born, yeah? [SINGING] Born. Born.

Born.

Can we do that? Four.

[SINGING] One for the little baby. He was born.

Born. One more time.

[SINGING] One for the little bitty baby. He was born.

Excellent. I've got one fancy thing left to do. [SINGING] Born, born. Try that.

[SINGING] Born.

Born in Bethlehem.

Born in Bethlehem.

So you've got [SINGING] born, born, born in Bethlehem. Try it.

[SINGING] Born, born, born in Bethlehem.

[CLAPS]

Born, born, born in Bethlehem. The same thing, yeah?

[SINGING] Born, born, born in Bethlehem.

You guys are fantastic. Here we go.

[SINGING] One for the little bitty baby. He was born, born, born in Bethlehem.

Yeah. [SINGING] Born.

[LAUGHTER]

Born, born, born in Bethlehem.

The same notes as before, yeah?

[SINGING] Born, born, born in Bethlehem.

Here we go. One, two, three, and--

[SINGING] One for the little bitty baby. He was born, born, born in Bethlehem.

Excellent. So what we're-- what I've created is a sort of an introduction. And then we've already learned the song, how the song's going to roll along. So the Introduction will go [SINGING] little children, go, go, go! Where I send thee. How-ow-ow shall I send thee? And then everyone. [SINGING] I'm gonna send thee one by one. One for the little bitty baby. He was born, born, born.

Born, born in Bethlehem.

You got it?

[SINGING] Little children go where I send thee. How shall I send thee?

Excellent.

[SINGING] I'm gonna send thee one by one. One for the little bitty baby. He was born, born, born in Bethlehem.

[CLAPPING]

Excellent. Now we can sing what we know before.

[SINGING] Little children, go where I send thee. How shall I send thee? I'm gonna send thee one by one. One for the little bitty baby. He was born, born, born in Bethlehem.

And when we get to that bit, we're just going to roll along with it. [SINGING] One for the little bitty baby. He was born, born, born in Bethlehem.

Yeah? But we're going to jump up and go [SINGING] one for the little bitty baby. He was born, born, born in Bethlehem. The same notes. You've only got like four notes you've gotta learn, yeah? So we're going to go--

[SINGING] One for the little bitty baby. He was born, born, born in Bethlehem.

Born, born, born in Bethlehem. I trust you. Here we go. One for the little bitty. One, two, three.

[SINGING] One for the little bitty baby. He was born, born, born in Bethlehem.

So we're going to say, [SINGING] little children, go where I send thee. How shall I send thee? I'm gonna send thee two by two. Two for Paul and Silas. One for the little bitty baby. He was born, born, born in Bethlehem. You got the idea? Who are two for?

Paul and Silas.

Who's the one for?

The baby.

Little bitty baby. He we go, from [SINGING] little children, go-- one, two.

[SINGING] Little children, go where I send thee. How shall I send thee? I'm gonna send thee two by two. Two for Paul and Silas. One for the little baby. He was born, born, born in Bethlehem.

He was born in Bethlehem.

He was born in Bethlehem.

The bad news is that your job for the rest of the song is to go [WORDLESS SINGING]

[WORDLESS SINGING]

Keep going.

[WORDLESS SINGING]

[SINGING] Little children, go where I send thee. How shall I send thee? I'm gonna send thee two by two. Two for Paul and Silas. One for the little bitty baby. He was born, born, born in Bethlehem.

The only thing you got to learn now. One more thing. [WORDLESS SINGING] [SINGING] Born, born, born in Bethlehem. Like that. [SINGING] Born, born, born in Bethlehem. One more time.

[SINGING] Born, born, born in Bethlehem. Got it?