<p>are there any a cappella groups at yale that sing modern stuff.?..i'm in a classical/madrigal choir at my high school, but i was looking forward to doing a cappella at college and arranging songs by coldplay, gavin degraw, third eye blind, etc...maybe a blast from the past here and there, but not all outdated and classical.</p>
<p>arranging modern songs for a cappella is really fun, and singing them is obviously funner, but all the groups i ahve found at yale have a different focus from what i'm looking for</p>
<p>does maroon 5 count? I have watched the Yale Spizzwinks (?) on Youtube do an arrangement of "She Will Be Loved" by Maroon 5. It was pretty cool. </p>
<p>thanks, yes that definitely counts, and that was not one of the groups i ever came across through searches.</p>
<p>and no i am not, so i suppose my question could be construed as presumptuous, but i visited yale and it was beautiful and now it is in my top two, alongside brown. so i'm hoping to maybe be class 2k13.</p>
<p>Most groups sing some modern songs. I'm not intimately familiar with each group's repertoire, but i've lived with members of the Duke's Men, Spizzwinks, and Baker's Dozen and they all sing some modern songs.</p>
<p>Basically, almost all of the groups at Yale do modern songs, but many of them have been around for so long that they have accumulated a repertoire of songs that were "modern" in various past decades. None of the songs are remotely "classical", and none of them were adopted by the groups when they were already old. All of the groups add new songs as people arrange them and as the people in the groups like them, but they all have so many great songs that a new one has to be awfully good to "stick". It's been a number of years since I heard a full concert from any of the Yale a capella groups, but in the past I would say that generally most of them would have about 20-25% of any full set be songs that had been arranged in the past 4-5 years.</p>
<p>The main Penn group, by the way (don't remember what they are called) seems to do nothing but modern (mid-90s forward) rock.</p>
<p>Some groups do focus on a genre though. Proof of the pudding (female) is mostly jazz/swing, and Red Hot & Blue is jazz-oriented (although not exclusively so). Out of the blue is pop-rock, and i believe there's even a folk music a cappella group.</p>
<p>I remember one men's group who performed Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" a cappella. It was fantastic -- I wish I recall which group it was. The lead eventually was invited to be a Whiff.</p>
<p>And yeah, tons of groups sing pop stuff. Duke's Men do, Spizzwinks(?) do, Baker's Dozen do, SOBs, do. Alley Cats don't really, but that's it. And thos're just the all male groups. But word. A cappella WOOOOO</p>
<p>There are mad girls groups, too! Proof of the Pudding, Something Extra, I think there's another one too... And there's mixed, like Out Of The Blue, Mixed Company, etc. Actually...</p>
<p>Yeah, If y'all wanna learn more about Yale a cappella (it's the best collegiate a cappella scene in the country by far), go here: The</a> Singing Group Council Official Website . There's links to all the groups, and info about "rush", which is the audition process. It's awesome stuff!</p>
<p>ok so i have a question...on all the a capella groups' websites, they all say something along the lines of:</p>
<p>"The audition consists of a few warm-up exercises, singing Aura Lee (if you're doing all men's), and a solo of your choice."</p>
<p>That sounds simple enough but...what do the warm-up exercises consist of? Is this where we'll be musically tested, like tonal memory or pitch-matching, etc?</p>
<p>Can anyone give specifics of what we should expect during the "warm-up exercise"?</p>
<p>It really depends on the group, but in general many groups do similar
things. Warm-ups can consist of all of the above (scales up and down,
tonal memory exercises, pitch matching, sight singing, you name it).
Make sure to work on any exercises you know you struggle with, since
if you rush enough groups, you'll probably encounter them at some
point. That being said, however, each audition consists of a lot of
different exercises, and no group expects anyone to nail them all, and
they understand if you are nervous.</p>