Author: Fred

These are recordings from the 1920s. There are 4021 in total. The list was donated by Professor Christopher Arthur Vincent Brooks, formerly of College of Charleston, South Carolina.

Listed are title, group, year, dance.

For each song in our system, there are several steps to accomplish. Here we discuss the five major stages a song goes through. There are variations for each step, depending on the software used. But these basics never change.

Use two screens to make song development easier. Below is a photo of James Pitt-Payne’s gear. He displays the sheet music on an iPad tablet in the front. To the right there is a desktop computer running Windows. On the wider screen you see the staff view of Cakewalk, a tried-and-true DAW. You also see a mouse for dragging the notes into their places. The song is from the Disney film Snow White.

Below are suggestions on how to sing from sheet music. We have a video for Mac users and one for Windows showing how to record. There are a hundred ways to do it. You can probably find your own way. You might use a usb microphone. The blue Yeti mic is good (and cheap). Or you can use a lapel mic. Singing along through headphones works best for this.