Getting Groups to Sing
 

Let's say it's someone's birthday and you want to sing Happy Birthday in unison. You are the leader of the singalong. What do you do?

Sources close to me say that I'm in the wrong for doing it the correct way musically.

you count 123 because there are pickup notes!

bzzt

wrong, but you're on the right track

FUCK YOU KIWI

i said 123 but that is because i sing happy birthday with polka instrumentation in 3/4

happy birthday IS in 3/4. omg i just noticed this! and there is a pickup note!

Uno dos tres cuatorce!

That had to be my most annoying post ever. I'm sorry wally. To answer your question, I don't count at all.

yeah who the heck counts for happy birthday? usually just one person starts and everyone else joins in

but if I were going to count I guess I picked 1 2 3 4 because a lot of songs are in 4/4

123 GO

The correct answer is to count "1, 2" since the song is in 3/4 time with a one beat anacrusis into the first full measure. Jeez.

a-one and a-two, and a-one two three four

bingo.

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i feel like a weirdo for thinking this through in my head after reading the initial post.

i mean. it's fucking happy birthday. who counts that shit off.

i've also never heard the word "anacrusis" in my life.

One two three five.

Ahahahahaha.

you guys are all tame. i just sing happy birthday in whatever time signature i feel like. the last time it was 3/4 (or for the sake of consistency 6/8) played as a heavily swung 5/8 by shifting the first two accents onto their downbeats and playing the notes of the original accents as the upbeats, thus eliminating the 6th accent somewhere along the line and making it a sneaky pseudo- 5/8 groove ala Chris Pennie.

god im a retard.

i voted for the wrong one.

1, 2 ... is the correct answer.

indeed. same goes for the National Anthem, but that's less common for a quick sing-a-long.

Don't get me started about the Pledge and the phantom comma after "One Nation"

the pause is even longer if you take "under god" out of it.

a-one and a-two- and-a

one

two

you know what ta do

^duovamp?

wally's family is lame... someone should call child services, these kids are doomed!!!!

duovamp is the new comedy option?

:)

I feel like I would start with the 1, 2, 3 option.
I usually just hold out Haa-- until enough people join in.

people in my family think I'm an idiot for going with the musically appropriate version

one, two, three, fawr!

In my family, we all just kind of stare awkwardly at each other for a few seconds before someone takes it upon themselves to just start singing. Then everyone else follows that person's lead.

Corganist, run as fast as you can to put the fire out on the SP board.

I dunno for chorus we'd always get the hand conducting giving us the tempo and the cue I've never been in a BAND

why wouldn't they

it should be effloresce

I'm down with becoming the new comedy option. It would bolster my infamy.

Said duovamp the ovum pad.