Boyz II Men

So I thought I'd take a second to expound on the marvelous musicianship of Boyz II Men. This is a clip of their arrangement (actually I don't know who to credit for the writing of it) of The Star Spangled Banner. This is only the end of it because of copyright, but this is enough to talk about their musicianship.

1. It's a capella. You have to know what you're doing to sing these harmonies a capella.
   
2. GREAT chord on "night."
3. I can live with two "T's" on the "night" cut off.
4. The word "that" in the phrase, "O, say does that star spangled banner..." is rhythmically out of this world. Hemiola! Bass voice and inner two voices are on triplets, and the upper voice is on sixteenth notes. Well done!
5. THEN after that rhythmic fiesta, they open up to this shimmery chord on "star" in that phrase, characteristic and very fitting of the word.
6. "Wave" of that same phrase is colored with some R&B stylistic beauties.
7. Nice chord building on the word "free," THEN they crescendo, which isn't easy to do with an ensemble, out of the beautifully built chord.
8. Nice bass ending.
9. All of this while singing with great vocal technique - nothing pushed or sounded tense. The first tenor has a great falsetto.
   

I hope you enjoy this as much as I do!!