Music! The best wash hands song

[sonia]

These are my beloved friends of Dunava, Seattle's Balkan choir, standing carefully 6' apart, with hand-washing lyrics set to a multi-part Bulgarian melody, Rasodi se tenka Neda.

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Dunava is practicing safe social distancing during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in the Seattle area, and delivering an important message. English lyrics by Jenny Sapora; song arrangement by Tzvetanka Varimezova (the original Bulgarian version "Rasodi se tenka Neda" is recorded on their CD "Bulgaria"). https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/dunava2

Here they are singing the original back in 2014. (Even though the first frame of the video shows a different singing group.)

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There are a lot of singers and musicians aching to harmonize in these days of social distancing. Network delays make it unworkable over Zoom, etc. (If you know of a solution, do tell!)

Comments

[batdina]

it's still kind of wild to see my sister in vids posted by you. nice wild, but wild.

[sonia]

:-) I thought of you while posting!

[rosefox]

A friend just posted this:

Yesterday I participated in a community recording where we each record ourselves singing harmonies or chorus to my friend P singing a song, and then they stitch it all together so we're all singing together. I look forward to hearing the result.

I thought it was brilliant and now desperately want to do it.

[sonia]

That sounds doable with Audacity. Each singer has to be really good at tuning though, if you can't adjust to each other in real time.

[rosefox]

I assume everyone's working off the same recording. It seems worth a try, at least!

[jesse_the_k]

This is GREAT! And the melody is sticky —does this music use a different scale? Or an unusual mode?


/managed to be a musician without any music training

[sonia]

Yes, it's been sticky for me too! It's minor, I guess? Not a different scale as far as I know, but I don't know enough about modes to identify them on the fly. I think it's the unusual (to US ears) chords you're hearing.