Singing from the Toes is a term I use to refer to as the act of singing with abandon where you sing out using all the energy you can muster establishing the whole front of you body from the tip of your big toenail to the crown of your head as a sound board where the sound springs out the top of your crown with an explosion of sound. For me, the sound resolves 8” 60 degrees out from the top of the crown of my head at 91-93db when singing a G (G4 or G’ or High G or piano key 47) at 392hz (391.9954hz). Keep in mind a jet engine generally operates at 100db. It’s fun to know that OSHA has policies earmarking how to handle extreme sound like that in the work environment and how long one can expose themselves to it without ear protection!!

When I first experienced the phenomenon of Singing from the Toes it was in a lesion with my voice coach during a vocal ease exercise. She was so excited she jumped up from the piano bench and did a little victory dance around the piano bench, sat down and shouted again.. again.. and after repeating it four or five times it demonstrated I made it to the plateau she had been aiming for to move towards developing professional level techniques for me to learned she had mastered some 20 years prior.

The following is a chronicle of one of my favorite tunes in Choir since the 6th Grade.

THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC

At the end of the school year in 6th grade all the 6th graders who volunteered to sing at a graduation event at the high school, it included the 8th grade choir, and high school choir in a mass choir of some 300+ voices. I had a chance to perform in that group on three occasions, 6th, 8th, and 12th grades. Each time the event ended with the School District’s signature song The Battle Hymn of the Republic. The Battle Hymn was made famous during the civil war as the song was sung mainly by Black Union Regimens as they marched. One day as they were passing the White House President Lincoln heard one of these Regimens bellow out this song with many very strong baritone voices that rang clear right down into the soul of the President and into his memoirs for that day as the soul of the American Spirit. Learning this song in 5th grade like so many songs I learned has become one of my all-time favorite songs to sing in Choir as composed by WILLIAM STEFFE with the 1957 Choir Arrangement as the song has a thunderous effect on the soul when you Sing It From The Toes as evident in the May 5th 2016 U-Tube Video of the 1st Baptist Choir and Orchestra where you will catch me front and center. Performance Example – May 5th, 2016 – First Baptist Dallas Choir and Orchestra The Battle Hymn of the Republic https://youtu.be/Qbj2vK9ZeZA From 1:30 to 1:40 seconds into the video you will see me front and center of the camera. Notes on the Battle Hymn of the Republic The “Battle Hymn of the Republic”, also known as “Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory” outside of the United States, is a popular American patriotic song by the abolitionist writer Julia Ward Howe. Howe wrote her lyrics to the music of the song “John Brown’s Body” in November 1861 and first published them in The Atlantic Monthly in February 1862. The song links the judgment of the wicked at the end of the age (through allusions to biblical passages such as Isaiah 63:1–6 and Revelation 14:14–19) with the American Civil War.

 

I look to expound on several favorite tunes, genera’s, places and groups I have sang with,  and also to give everyone a glimpse of what is to come.  Keep an eye out for them.

I WONDER AS I WANDER

PERSONAL TRILOGY

IT IS WELL

HOW GREAT THOU ART

AND CAN IT BE

OH HOLY NIGHT

BLESSED ASSURANCE

400+ YEAR MUSICAL LEGACY

MEN OF THE HEIGHTS

SOUTHERN GOSPEL MUSIC

  • Introduction to
  • Bill and Gloria Gaither
  • Larnel Harris
  • Sandi Patti
  • Cathedral Quartet
  • Dolly Pardon – Dollywood – Southern Gospel Music Museum

1st BAPTIST DALLAS CHIOR AND ORCHESTRA

TROY BAPTIST / WOODSIDE BIBLE CHIOR AND ORCHESTRA

FUTURE PLANNED MUSCIANSHIP