In honor of the opening of Sound Transit extending light rail to Northgate, the Seattle SeaChordsmen are proud to present the Northgate Link Line song!  The arrangement is the classic B&O Line with lyrics specially written by our own Drew Robinson.  Earlier this year the SeaChordsmen were able to start rehearsing together, safely, in the Northgate station parking garage by special arrangement with Sound Transit.  We present this song to thank them.

Once again, thanks to our arrangement with Sound Transit, another successful rehearsal in one of their garages last week, and another one coming up this week.  Still messing with the best way to balance all the parts, but it's getting a bit better each time!  Contact us if you want to join us!  Here is a short audio sample where Drew is rehearsing the last few chords of a Polecat!  https://seachordsmen.org/sites/seachordsmen.org/files/audio/Apr13-Down-clip.mp3

Covid-19 safe in-car/outdoor singing overview

The idea here is having Covid safe rehearsals for singers.  This is done by having everyone isolated in their own car.  Everyone has a microphone and listens to a mix of everyone together over either their car's FM radio, or a portable MP3 player with an FM radio.  Chorus members had previously tried multiple times to use "real time" internet based software such as Jamulus.  The inherent latency of both the internet and typical laptop audio (30 to 80 milliseconds), coupled with the difficulty of configuring said laptops in the first place, eliminated that as a viable option for the chorus.  The latency is a big problem for a capella singing in particular.  Both of these issues are addressed with the set up outlined next.