Name: アメリカの国歌はなぜひどいのか - そして完璧なのか (Why the US national anthem is terrible — and perfect)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:46:25.000Z
Duration: 9 min 25 s
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If you've ever tried to sing the star spangled
banner,

The lowest note and the highest note are an

For comparison, God Save The Queen spans seven
notes.

Yes exactly Estelle, this is why we need a
new national anthem.

Joss, This is why the national anthem is so
great.

Nine notes is enough to make Yvonne cry
in Casablanca.

I know the words to it but I'm so aware
of how bad I sound that I have to stop right now.

Ok so it's not just the overall range,
The whole song feels like it's trying to

I've already traversed an octave from "say"
to "see"

That's music theory expert Paula Telesco.

But from "see" I have to go up to "by the."

So now I've traversed a 10th, and we're only
in the second measure.

And then right here, you're also hit with
a chromatic note, which means it's not in

the same key that the rest of the notes are
in.

An “Interval” is the distance between
two notes.

If they're right next to each other, they're
called “steps.”

Most music moves by step, meaning a smaller
percentage of skips.

But the star spangled banner is full of skips,
including fourths,

That's why music teachers in the 30s opposed
the law that officially made the star spangled

And a writer in the 1920s said that “No one with
a normal esophagus can sing it without screaming.”

And in 1906 the Washington Post called it
“perhaps the most ...unlovely tune that

was ever wrung from the quivering bowels of
a horn.”

Shouldn't the national anthem be something
we can all sing?

Ok but how often do you really need to do
that?

I mean consider the context where most Americans
even hear the song.

The super bowl, NBA finals, the World Series.

Why shouldn't the national anthem performance
be just as challenging and anxiety ridden

as whatever sporting event it's commencing?

He's a vocal coach and teacher in New York
City.

People think I should just start in a comfortable
range, like “oh say.”

“Oh say” Otherwise, I'm going to be
very very high by the time I get to the end

And the vowels in these lyrics make it even

“Of the” and then all of a sudden you
have to go to a closed vowel, which is i:

So you got to figure out how to sing the e
vowel with an open throat, but close it on

Talented singers pull this off by mixing their
chest and head voice.

So chest voice is like your Ethel Merman.

Head voice is when we think of like opera
singers.

If you're just using your chest voice at
“the land of the free” It'll sound like

“Land of the” and then you feel the “free”
and it just feels like it's not going to

But if you incorporate your head voice just
a little,

it's like hitting a game winning fadeaway
jump shot.

And notice how Jennifer Hudson went up even
more on “Free”

That's not just an octave and half, that
two octaves.

There's one person who did it so well that
a recording of the song peaked at 20 on Billboard

If our anthem was easy to sing, Joss, we would
not get these moments.

Ok I'm not saying I don't have goosebumps,
but let the record show that that microphone

But let's talk about the lyrics, which were
written by a slaveholder and, in the 3rd stanza

they celebrate the death of slaves who sided
with the British in the war of 1812.

But the song is about Fort McHenry in Baltimore,
which withstood a 24 hour attack from the

So the big inspiring idea here is that the
country …. still exists.

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