I've just dug this thread out as I just went through Summertime to see if I like it. My key is B minor but i've just found this free downloadable backing track in A minor for anyone that's interested:-
http://www.jazzbacks.com/cgi-bin/online-st...=free-downloads
Full Version: "summertime"
Thanks for the link, Possum.
So do you like it?
So do you like it?
QUOTE(katyjay @ Jun 26 2007, 02:47 PM) 
Thanks for the link, Possum.
So do you like it?
I think so. I feel it will be good for me, lately my voice has gotten much heavier in the middle and i'm keen to hold on to my lighter notes so I think it will be nice to sing something more controlled and higher. I love singing Care Selve which seems to be the same singing technique (if you know what I mean, Handel and Gershwin
). I've always loved Gershwin when piano was my first instrument, I would have never imagined singing it though 
Sorry to drag up an old thread! (It has been interesting re-reading it though )
Anyway...the need to sing Summertime in the Ella Fitzgerald bluesy style has returned as a niggle and I won't be happy until I've attempted it! Almost four years on (
) from this thread being started, I would like to think my voice has progressed well enough to attempt Summertime (still not in the original key though). I was just coming up to grade one singing then, and am now grade five.
I've been doing a search for a transposed version but have had no luck so far. Does anybody have a copy or know of a good transcription I could get hold of please?
Thank you.
(For those who have heard me sing, please fee free to add any comments as to why I should/shouldn't attempt this. Thanks).
)Anyway...the need to sing Summertime in the Ella Fitzgerald bluesy style has returned as a niggle and I won't be happy until I've attempted it! Almost four years on (
) from this thread being started, I would like to think my voice has progressed well enough to attempt Summertime (still not in the original key though). I was just coming up to grade one singing then, and am now grade five. I've been doing a search for a transposed version but have had no luck so far. Does anybody have a copy or know of a good transcription I could get hold of please?
Thank you.
(For those who have heard me sing, please fee free to add any comments as to why I should/shouldn't attempt this. Thanks).
I can't see why you shouldn't give it a go! I love that version!
Hi Daisychain,
That version (rather than the operatic version) is on the Grade 4 syllabus list for LCM Popular Vocals. So I would have thought it'd be fine. My student is doing in, and singing it in B minor but an octave lower than the operatic version.
Good luck, it's a gorgeous song
That version (rather than the operatic version) is on the Grade 4 syllabus list for LCM Popular Vocals. So I would have thought it'd be fine. My student is doing in, and singing it in B minor but an octave lower than the operatic version.
Good luck, it's a gorgeous song
QUOTE(DaisyChain @ Apr 30 2011, 08:18 PM)
Sorry to drag up an old thread! (It has been interesting re-reading it though
)Anyway...the need to sing Summertime in the Ella Fitzgerald bluesy style has returned as a niggle and I won't be happy until I've attempted it! Almost four years on (
) from this thread being started, I would like to think my voice has progressed well enough to attempt Summertime (still not in the original key though). I was just coming up to grade one singing then, and am now grade five. I've been doing a search for a transposed version but have had no luck so far. Does anybody have a copy or know of a good transcription I could get hold of please?
Thank you.
(For those who have heard me sing, please fee free to add any comments as to why I should/shouldn't attempt this. Thanks).
You could download it from Musicnotes.com - A US site I use a lot and they're pretty good. They have a number of pre-transposed options available, with information on the range of the transposition used.
Enjoy
http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.a...pn=MN0041294_D5
Thank you for your responses, and for the link katyjay! All downloaded and ready to start.
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