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GOSBTS - why so crap?



Gilliver's Travels

Peripatetic
Jul 5, 2003
2,926
Brighton Marina Village
GOSBTS - why so crap?

Why are we so piss-poor at singing our own magical, neck-hair tingling anthem? The vocal span is only just over one octave, but people always, always get into trouble. So they have to either squawk for the high notes, or change key in mid song. Which sounds pretty ugly. Especially when, ironically, the first high note – that point where everybody gets into trouble - is in the line originally written as “So let your voices ring my boys”.

So why does it all go wrong? Easy. Because we always start our opening doo-dooo-de-doos far too high.

In the official key of B flat, the opening doo-doos are D-D-Dflat-D. But starting there means you reach the straining end of manageable, enough to crack the average untrained male voice. Of course, no problem for girlies, boy sopranos and all those castrati who sit together in J-block.

Anyway, if you do want to complete the song tunefully, without having to change key in the middle, you now have two options:-

1 Cut off your own goolies. (But please check that they’ve descended first, or it could get a bit messy)

or

2 Start the tune a bit lower down.

For readers wanting to retain their ability to participate in leisure pursuits beyond watching the Albion, I would recommend option 2.

So all we need now is a human tuning fork. Or else a large air-horn, tuned to an appropriately sensible starting note. I’d recommend a C.

So now, here’s a new GOSBTS mantra. Think Black Rock. Or, put another way, Always do your doo-doos in C.




Footnote: Many people will know the composer of Sussex by the Sea was one William Ward Higgs. (With that middle name, scoring was no doubt second nature.)
 




Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 5, 2003
72,561
Living In a Box
You've done a thread on this already :shootself :shootself :shootself
 


Gilliver's Travels

Peripatetic
Jul 5, 2003
2,926
Brighton Marina Village
Yes, yes, but I pressed the wrong button and sent the wrong version. Sorry.

Look, the singing of GOSTBS is an important topic which deserves serious examinaton and immediate action. Our credibility depends on our being able to sing the Club Song with ease, as if we can handle it. And not as if we were just a bunch of strangle-voiced, tone-deaf adolescents. (er, which many of our worst choristers just happen to be...)

Doo-Doos go in C
 


Blackadder

Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 6, 2003
16,142
Haywards Heath
If we could just cut to the Chase!

Singing GOSBTS at Withdean (like any other song) - CRAP!

Singing GOSBTS away from home - Marvellous scenes!

QED
 


Gilliver's Travels

Peripatetic
Jul 5, 2003
2,926
Brighton Marina Village
Marvellous scenes, yes, Buzza.

But that oh-so-predictable "Oh Christ, I'm not gonna make it... quick guys, emergency key-change" moment still sounds even more bloody terrible when it's 2000 fans involved.

As Yorkie says, you need to start lower down and sing it more slowly.
 












Virgo's Haircut

Resident Train Guru
Jul 5, 2003
4,490
On a train...
Has anyone heard that weird version of Sussex by the Sea they play reserves games at Woodside Road? Very odd.... :smokin:
 










Easy 10

Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Jul 5, 2003
62,638
Location Location
Re: GOSBTS - why so crap?

Gilliver's Travels said:
So why does it all go wrong? Easy.
Harsh. Its not my bloody fault.
I can't help it if my voice falls between octaves.
 






Yorkie

Sussex born and bred
Jul 5, 2003
32,367
dahn sarf
Gilliver's Travels said:
Hmmm, to hit that C properly, we'd need to have perfect pitch.

Perfect pitch? With Ecovert? No chance...

:lolol:

I think that one may go over a few heads

I can hit middle C well but I don't start songs or chants.

Not after Ned started Gimme a B ... at Hartlepool and nobody did :lolol:

Turkey & Fatboy fell about laughing
 




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