Bullies
Stirling's Guidance Counselor,
Marina Frankovitz and I have written a song to support Broward County's new
anti-bullying initiative, called simply, "Bullies". While writing and
recording the background tracks for this song, I noticed a first grade student
with a particularly good sense of pitch, rhythm, diction, and enthusiasm!
I immediately contacted her parents, and made a practice CD. The recording
went great! I added the voices of a couple of selected Stirling classes
for support on the choruses, and created a Karaoke video.
The results are here available
for download. It is my hope that other schools in Broward (and beyond)
will make use of, "Bullies" in student performances and morning news broadcasts.
I've included two versions of the Karaoke video. One which will stream in
most browsers with
Quicktime installed called, "Bullies.mov". The second is a higher
quality copy for use in iTunes called, "Bullies.m4v".
There are two audio recordings
one with the vocals, and one with just the accompaniment track. Click on
the sheet music image to download a printable pdf file of the lead sheet.
The reviews are in! Click here to see a few!
Stirling
Sunshine Singers perform Bullies at the Thousand Youth March November 16, 2008
Video!
Bullies with Vocal Audio
mp3 file
Bullies
Accompaniment Only Audio mp3 file
Bullies Streaming Karaoke
Video Quicktime file
Bullies Higher Quality
Karaoke for use with iTunes Quicktime file