Singing Moments of gold / Flashes of light

Here is an example of a standard, lyrics-only 'roke screen, for an ideal symphonious anthem, It's All Coming Back to Me Now by French-Canadian overexpressive diva, Mlle Celine Dion. Dion is the perfect artist to cue up to unveil some crowd guilty lyric knowledge, & her verses repeat & retard in a way that you pretend you only join because you can't beat.

Chartbusters is a logo you'll come to know & love, with the serious tagline "We Keep America Singing" scrolling over a staff of white on blue. The fluorescent low-fi graphic video palette is key to the accessible 'roke mood. A rival 'roke company called Sunfly features an animated bee/fly leaning backwards to demonstrate the no-holds-barred singathon attitude. Occasionally a track will assign your performance a random score, usually a number between screens from 86-99 that appears - but don't worry to our extensive knowledge, this is a completely arbitrarily derived statistic of your lyric-to-tune output. These machines are not sophisticated video games & there will never be a dog laughing at your misfires a la Duck Hunt or any other potential threats to your self-esteem.

Watch the Dion video & note some loosely useful facts on the intro screen (eg. 4 bar intro, in the key of, in the style of) that is for most humans like us who have no idea about music usually time used to make sure the mic is in the hands of the person who cued it up. You'll know immediately if you've picked a crowd pleaser, but there are also major rewards & Cinderella stories of an unknown song brought to life by soul & commitment so don't lose hope if you don't get a strong opening response. See here the four dots that fade in meter to prepare you to dive in to the "Therewerenightswhenthewind was SO. cold..." Just TRY listening to this video with the sostenuto piano pedal & backup echo of "foh-reh-vah," & the rising tambourine without joining in on a lyric or 100. YOU CAN'T. If this song married that Meatloaf one with the chandelier video they might birth The Most Epic Roke Song Of All Time. Ok, but back to instructions: should be self evident. Let your voice glide over the words as they peel away & love every minute of it. We'll get to other screen forms & song examples as we blog on.

-G