Chords for Tag Tutorial // Midnight Rose (Bluegrass Student Union) - Barbershop Quartet

Time for [C] Holland [Bb] _ _
_ _ _ _ Harmony's Tag of the Month
_ _ _ [B] Hey [Dm] everybody, I'm Sonny from [Ab] the Holland Harmony education [B] team.
And in that team, we started [Db] thinking that tag singing isn't such a big [B] part of the Dutch barbershop culture as it is, let's say, in the United States.
[Gb] Now, [Eb] a lot of people are [Abm] almost afraid of singing tags, because, you know, they [B] sing your part like once or twice [Dbm] and all of a sudden you need to be able to repeat it and I'm not good at [Gb] doing that.
Well, that doesn't necessarily have to be a problem.
[B] It's actually like a muscle [F] you train.
[Eb] The more you do it, the easier it gets and the [Abm] more fun it becomes.
And I feel like in tag singing, [B] you don't even have to know [F] people.
You just get together, you sing a [G] tag and you make an instant [Eb] connection.
It's a really fun way [D] to meet people and to kind of listen [G] to each other.
What kind of singer are you?
You know, it's a lot of fun to do.
[A] So what we want to [Bb] do from the Holland Harmony education team is teach you a brand new tag [Gb] every single month in these Tag [B] of the Month series.
Now, there's one [Ebm] comment I hear quite [E] often from the female singers [Dbm] of Holland Harmony and that is, we don't like tag [B] singing because it's just a bunch of guys screaming [Ebm] their heads off.
I don't fully disagree.
[F] But, you know, sometimes it's fun to scream your head off and sometimes it's [Dbm] fun to do a really soft, gentle, tender [Db] ballad, you know.
Now, [C] there are a [Abm] lot of tags available [Gb] which are really soft and mellow and I'd like to teach you one in this very first video.
[A] It's a tag [Ab] arranged by Adweishi for the Bluegrass Student Union, [B] which was the International Barbershop Quartet Champion [F] of 1978.
The tag's called Midnight Rose.
Let's [B] look at each part individually.
Now, this tag is number 81 in the classic tag book for women and it's in the [E] key of E.
I'm going [C] to start you off with the bass part because it's actually [Dbm] the bass that has the post in this tag.
_ [Em] Here we go. _ _
_ _ [N] _ _ Change your _ ways, little midnight _ _ _ rose. _ _ _ _
And you just keep that note going all the way to the end of the tag.
_ There you go.
Next part I'm going to teach you is the lead and it goes a little something like this.
_ _ [E] _ _
_ _ [N] _ _ Change your _ ways, _ little midnight. _
_ _ _ Bass pulse. _ _
Little midnight _ _ _ [B]
rose. _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] There you go.
Next part is the tenor part [E] and it goes like _ this.
_ _ [B] _ _ Change [Bb] your _ _ ways, little midnight.
[B] _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _
Little [N] midnight _ _ _ rose.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Lovely tag.
And then last but most certainly [A] not least, the baritone.
Now this one actually makes the tag.
Here we go. _
[E] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
Change your _ ways, _ little [N]
midnight.
_ _ _ _ _ Little midnight _ _ _ _ rose.
_ _ _ _ _ [Gbm] If you put all four parts together, this is what it should sound like. _ _
Change [Gb] your _ _ _ _ ways, [Am] little _ [Abm] midnight.
[B] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ [A] Little [Am] midnight _ _ _ [E] _ rose. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ And there you have it.
All four parts to [Eb] the lovely tag of Midnight [Gbm] Rose.
[Eb] Which is not a screaming tag, but a very [E] soft and tender one.
Now if you have a tag that you would [Em] like to learn or maybe a tag that you wrote [N] and you would like to share it,
please don't hesitate to drop us a line and maybe it will be our next tag of the month.
You can always reach us for any questions you might have on our Facebook page, which is facebook.com.
Holland Harmony Education and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.
Now I hope you enjoy singing this tag with [Ab] your chorus or quartet and see you