Main Street Apple Blossom Time

Main Street Barbershop Quartet song

[@wesanderson5642]

That was indeed the most amazing undertone I have heard in my entire life.

[@jamesshubert4866]

I just love watching this quartet perform. They are so effortless that you don't realize how much 'business' is going on in each song. This is just a master class in staging a song.

[@davidkrause3906]

Easily one of the most entertaining quartets in recent years in my book!

[@walterwhite8267]

What a fricken undertone.

[@Will_Bryan]

dat undertone

[@ilikebass6818]

I love everything about this video

[@michaelkelly02]

This may be my new favorite bass!

[@ShaunMRichards]

ditto! Was thinking the very same thing!

[@barbershopscotty]

This is a weekly required listening.

[@malachimarasigan]

3:30 Is when Daniel raises his eyebrow. Or when we all start hearing the undertone. Goosebumps.

[@Linkthe3rd]

It's one of the loudest undertones I have ever heard...

[@JulienNeel]

Fantastic performance! What is that buzz I hear on the final note? Is that was an "undertone" feels like? The pitch feels lower than the bass note, so I suppose it's a trick my brain is playing on me because I'm hearing all the higher harmonics and have the illusion of that low pitch, right? Is it particularly difficult to achieve? Moreso than emphasizing a given overtone?

[@b33p]

Hi. Nobody ever replied. Yes, juicy undertone.

[@davidkrause3906]

And in fact, that one is there, goes away as they change chords and then comes back just as strong!!! One of the strongest recorded undertones I've ever heard and there were a few more in the early part of the song!!!

[@HymnLee]

@@SkragaRooRoo Apologies but Myron isn’t using any sub-harmonic singing there. Voices to be perfectly tuned like that go off unequal temperament, which is a fancy way of saying not the exact pitch. For example the fifth needs to be around 14 cents sharp, and the 3rd needs to be a tiny flat. Doing all that makes that “synth” like sound that happens at the end, as well as multiple times during the song. Resonance also matters, with all the 4 sings matching each others resonance as well as their vowel choices. Hell, we call it “undertones” but they aren’t even technically undertones but since we use the word overtones a lot, it’s easier to understand the concept if we say undertone.

[@ilikebass6818]

I really love that this undertone goes to fricking C2!!!

[@DesertSingerAZ]

😮 oh wow!

[@GOD2sodomyME]

dibs on the big guy

[@shopclass8576]

This is such an anomaly of an undertone. The final chord notes being sung are C3-E3-G3-C4. The fundamentals of these notes belong to the C1 series, not the C2 series. The tasteful tone choice of the baritone, however, means the real strength is the C3-G3-C4 structure by the remaining parts, reinforcing the C2 series as the "brighter" more audible undertone. I bet for those four men on stage the strength of the C1 and C2 buzz were both present because of Mike's (the bari) exemplary third here. Love Main Street.

[@Paul_K_]

Pretty sure Roger's on the low 3rd and Mike goes from 5 up to the high tonic. That's for sure how they do it on the album recording

[@spencerjohnson7103]

Dank undertone

[@chrismeehan2956]

Could you possibly share the song following, heard right before it cuts out? I would love to hear their full version of that classic.

[@jakeharvey3582]

Is that really an undertone? It just sounds to me like the bass slips into subharmonics... but I could be wrong.

[@vultabult]

yeah, I think you're right. you can hear him shifting into subharmonic range just before the last chord

[@Floatingone1]

Holy undertones....

[@jacobteasley9716]

whos arrangment is this?

[@KyleHottel]

That is one heck of an undertone...is the final chord 1-3-5-1 or 1-5-1-3? I really can't tell with all the awesome harmonics going on here

[@chizo1205]

1351 :) barítone singing the third, the lead is singing the fifth and the tonic is being sung by the bass and tenor

[@anthonycolosimo6847]

1-5-1-3. Tenor on 3 above baritone. Lead goes down to 5 on “time”

[@geoffreyhelveston3967]

Does anyone know who arranged this?

[@rocketoutlaw915]

Me

[@spotlessmcpartland]

They need a better first tenor. mcp

[@1mjm502]

+spotlessmcpartland He is an international gold medal winning tenor. You don't get much better than him.

[@UniqueActive]

I think he's got three gold medals by now :)

[@MadisonHasty]

@@UniqueActive Main Street was Roger's 2nd gold. First with Keepsake in 1992