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AVC SINGS WITH VOCTAVE

Well-known a cappella group Voctave are inviting singers around the world to be involved in their next virtual choir! We have decided that this would be a perfect thing to do as part of AVC so that we can stay singing and connected, and continue to make art in this weird world. The song is one of our favs, You Will Be Found from Dear Evan Hansen.

We know that lots of families are overwhelmed with homeschooling and working from home, so there’s absolutely no pressure to do this! Please opt in if you want to, and let us know if you do. Rachel will be recording her part to include, I wonder if we can convince Paul to have a go…

WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO:

All the learning materials are below.

Choose and learn your part using the rehearsal tracks and then record as per the instructions. Let us know if you need help with that!

We have until Friday 1 May to upload the tracks.

Let us know if you need help with making this happen 🙂

REHEARSAL TRACKS

Sheet Music

Alto Only | Alto with piano

Baritone only | Baritone with piano

Bass only | Bass with piano

Soprano 1 only | Soprano 1 with piano

Soprano 2 only | Soprano 2 with piano

Tenor only | Tenor with Piano

Full piano

Full mix

 

Good evening, Rabble! Thanks for a LOUD but productive rehearsal.

It was so great to welcome Liam and Fearghus tonight. We're so excited to have them with us!

The backing tracks for World In Union and We Are Australian are available below. As we don't have a lot of rehearsal time before our performance, it's important that you listen to the tracks and practise in your own time.

Practise hard, we want these sounding totally fab next week.

P&R

Here's the playlist for Hello? It's me, the Universe.

Please listen to it a couple of times before next rehearsal and let us know if you have any trouble accessing the songs.

CLICK HERE FOR THE HIMTU PLAYLIST

Or use the player below:

It was so great to see everybody back for the new year and to welcome our new faces!

Below is the sheet music for the three songs we covered at rehearsal as well as the YouTube clip of the performance of The Body Electric performed by PLHS Combined Choirs.

This is a pretty straight-laced version of the song. Our version is going to be so funktastic it'll move into a house at number 1 Funk Street.

by Weird Al Yankovic

DOWNLOAD LYRICS PDF

Everybody shut up

Everyone listen up (Hey, hey, hey... hey, hey, hey... hey, hey, hey)

 

If you can't write in the proper way

If you don't know how to conjugate

Maybe you flunked that class

And maybe now you find

That people mock you online

 

Okay now here's the deal, I'll try to educate ya

Gonna familiarise you with the nomenclature

You'll learn the definitions of nouns and prepositions

Literacy's your mission

 

And that's why we think it's a good time

To learn some grammar (what)

Now did I stammer?

Work on that grammar

You should know when it's less or it's fewer

Like people who were

Never raised in a sewer

I hate these word crimes

Like "I could care less"

That means you do care

At least a little

Because you’re writers

You'd better slow down and use the right pronoun

Show the world you're no clown

 

Say you got an I-T followed by apostrophe S

Now, what does that mean?

You would not use "it's" in this case as a possessive (no no no)

It's a contraction (yeah yeah yeah)

What's a contraction?

"Well, it's the shortening of a word or group of words by omission of a sound or letter"

 

Okay now here's some notes:

Syntax you're always manglin'

No "x" in espresso

Your participle's danglin'

But I don't want your drama

If you really wanna, leave out that Oxford comma

 

Just keep in mind that be, see, are, you...

Are words, not letters

Get it together, use your spell checker

You should never

Write words using numbers

Unless you're seven, or your name is Prince

I hate these word crimes

You really need a full-time proofreader

I’ll put out some feelers

‘Cause, you should hire

Some cunning linguist

To help you distinguish what is proper English

 

One thing I ask of you

The time to learn your homophones is past due

Learn to diagram a sentence too

Always say "to whom"; don't ever say "to who"

And listen up when I tell you this

I hope you never use quotation marks for emphasis

You finished second grade; I hope you can tell

If you're doing good or doing well

Better figure out the difference

Irony is not coincidence

And I thought that you'd gotten it through your skull

'Bout what's figurative and what's literal

Oh, but just now (just now) you said (you said)

You "literally couldn't get out of bed" (what)

That really makes me wanna literally

Bang the wall with my pedantic head

 

I read your e-mail (yeah yeah)

It's quite apparent your grammar's errant

You're incoherent

Saw your blog post (hey hey)

I'm enthusiastic

That was sarcastic... (aw psych!) it's not fantastic

I hate these word crimes

Your prose has hope we

know you don’t only write in Emoji

You're not a lost cause

Go back to high school, or maybe pre-school

We know you’re no fool

 

Never mind, I give up

Really now, I give up

(Hey hey hey)

(Hey hey hey)

(Go away)

Rise up
If you livin' on your knees, you rise up
Tell your brother that he's gotta rise up
Tell your sister that she's gotta rise up
When are folks like me and you gonna rise up?
Every city, every hood, we need to rise up
All my soldiers, what's good? We need to rise up
We ain't got no other choice, we need to rise up
Rise up!