What we’ll be singing

Music and learning trax

We will be learning three songs this year. Please download the sheet music and the learning trax for your voice part below. Then use the learning trax! You will have a lot more fun if  know the music when you get to the festival. You can bring your sheet music to use for rehearsal time, but no music will be held during the show!   

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How to read your music

Barbershop sheet music has a bass and treble clef, just like regular choral music. Each part takes a different line of of the music. However, there ARE a few differences, so check out below.

How to read your music
  • Tenors read the treble clef using the notes that have stems going up, usually the top note, but not always. (Sometimes the tenors and leads swap positions!)
  • Leads read the treble clef using the notes that have the stems going down, usually the bottom note, but not always.
  • Baritones read the bass clef using the notes that have stems going up, and notes are sung an octave higher than the note written!
  • Basses read the bass clef using the notes that have stems going down, and notes are sung an octave higher than the note written!

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MC script

MCs, or Masters of Ceremonies, are the people who announce parts of a show or an awards ceremony; they can be any combination of guys and girls. We will need two people this year to do MC work between A Good Day and Count on Me.

If you want to be considered, auditions will be held during Saturday’s lunch. Melodee and Chera will decide on the two performers who have the best character and chemistry together. The expectation for the MCs is that the script must be memorized, which means if you are selected as an MC on Saturday — when you aren’t singing — you’ll be running lines to get the script off paper (or memorized!)

2025 AAU MC Script

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AAU Music

It’s a Good Day

It’s a Good Day is a written and recorded by jazz and popular music great, Peggy Lee. WHO? Peggy Lee sang many jazz and popular great songs But she also had a play side, she was the voice of the Siamese Cats in Lady and the Tramp.

Peggy Lee singing “It’s a Good Day”

Cyrille Aimee’ singing “It’s a Good Day” (with a little country/jazz flair)

The Bean Tones singing “It’s a Good Day” in BBS a cappella

When you listen to your part track, use your headphones or set your left speaker on high and the right speaker on low to hear your part dominant. You can also just use your left earbud to hear your part. 

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Count On Me

Count On Me was written and performed by Bruno Mars. It first appeared in 2010 on his debut studio album, Doo-wops and Hooligans, then again on his extended play album, It’s Better If You Don’t Understand.

Here is a link to Bruno Mars official music video

When you listen to your part track, use your headphones or set your left speaker on high and the right speaker on low to hear your part dominant. You can also just use your left earbud to hear your part.

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Stand By Me

You will perform this song with the members of Alaska Sound Celebration as the closing song for our show. Stand By Me was written by Ben E. King, Jerry Lieber, and Mike Stoller in 1961. Ben E. King was the original performer. It was featured in the 1986 film by the same name, starring Wil Wheaton and River Phoenix. There have been over 400 recorded versions of this song, including Otis Redding, John Lennon and Tracy Chapman.

The arrangement we will perform is based on a music video called Music, Travel, Love (at Al Ain) and was arranged by our very own arranger, Marcia Davis.

The original version you are probably most familiar with is the Ben E. King version.

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