When I mean "well" I mean getting all of the notes/pitch, right and knowing the lyric from memory.
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Poorly
If you asked me to sing it solo, I’d probably sing on key but start from the wrong point.
If im singing along, no problem
I know the lyrics and can sing along to music, but I can’t sing a capella
Not great. I actually have some singing experience, but it’s hard to sing the Star Spangled Banner really well.
I can’t sing for shit lol. Also I only know the first verse, like most people.
Better than Roseanne but not as well as Maya Rudolph
Not at all. And thankfully it’s not required.
I know the words and basic melody. I am also terrible singer and it’s a near-impossible song to sing well, so…
I know the lyrics for the first verse (the only one that gets sung) but I don’t have any vocal control to speak of. My former neighbor who was a music major said I’m not tone deaf because I can pick out songs by ear on the mandolin, I just can’t get my voice to hit those notes. Like I know they’re wrong. so not well.
It’s not in my voice range, nor many people’s range for that matter but I know all the words of the first verse. The rest of the verses I need a lyric sheet.
Pretty well, I guess. I’ve done a few performances before various sports games (high school/college, nothing impressive) and I didn’t get booed out of the stadium. A lot of it comes down to picking the right note to start on.
Getting the lyrics right? 10/10. Everything else you mentioned? Less than that, it’s a hard song and I’m not much of a singer.
Lyrics? No problem. Hitting the high notes? No way.
One hundred percent.
When I was 10 years old, I told my mother I wanted to take piano lessons. Our church music director was also a teacher. She said, “I don’t take kids as students.”
I sat down and played the melody to the Star-Spangled Banner by ear with no music and no mistakes. Then she said, “I don’t **usually** take kids as students.”
I can’t sing ***any*** song “well”, although I know the words to many of them (including the Star Spangled Banner).
I can sing it, but absolutely no one will want to hear that.
I know the lyrics and the tune and can get through it without straining anything.
I know all the words and am a decent singer, but it’s a hard song to sing well.
Quite well but I also have training and have done it quite a few times (though mostly as part of a choir, only a couple times solo). It’s a surprisingly difficult song. An octave and a half range is no joke and the melody itself can be awkward. My old choir teacher used it as her audition piece to figure out where everyone was going to be placed. Which, at the time, I didn’t really get, but I do now.
I have sung this song every night to my kids. I start with this then “America the Beautiful.”
My oldest is 14 youngest is 2. So I sing to the littlest ones now. But then the older two were little this has always been my bedtime song selection.
Do I know the notes, pitch, and lyrics? Sure. I know the first verse, at least. I can imagine it in my head.
Can I sing it? HECK NO!
In the showers I’m a solid 9.8 out of 10 no matter what I’m singing.
Very well actually. I have vocal training and along with the choir I’m in sing it before a minor league baseball game about once a year.
100%.
Of course if you can already sing, a 1.5 octave range isn’t hard.
Really well. Sometimes I sing it in the car when I’m driving by myself! I’m supposed to stand and put my hand over my heart, but oh, well.
I will estimate that I am in between Bobby Vinton (who forgot the words, but remembered the tune) and Whitney Houston, who was iconic. Roseanne Barr shall not be mentioned.
Normal people can’t sing it well. It’s why you always need a trained singer to sing it at events
Pretty good. Years of choir in school and church have honed that particular skill.
Extremely well. I figured everyone did tbh
Pretty good. I have sung it at least a hundred times for various events.
Not at all, maybe, I don’t know? I know some of the words but it’s not like it’s sung everyday in school. Though many schools do say the pledge of allegiance every day or whenever there’s a special event; but the vast majority of cases I’ve seen the National Anthem (the Star Spangled Banner) is mostly sung during sparingly, mostly during special occasions. Then again in during most professional and quasi-professional college sports games it’s always sung; and can be sung before high school (or K-12) sports games though my school growing up didn’t emphasize that because it was a private parochial school.
All four stanzas, no prob. Singing, well, I used to be better. But it’s a difficult drinking tune to begin with.
I never learned all the lyrics and kinda suck at singing, so not at all.
Very well. Not Whitney Houston well, but enough to be asked to sing it at a sporting event.
I know all the verses even, including the “diss on the British” one.
Pretty well, since I took classical voice training.
All the verses?
I was a choir kid in high school, so I know the melody, a soprano descant that’s probably too high for me now, and two different alto/tenor harmony lines.
Basically, no matter what key they start in, I can sing along if I want.
*All* the verses. And I can make Kim Jong Un stand, put his hand over his heart, assuming he has one, and cry.
The best. I’m amazing.
I’m a classically trained soubrette soprano. I can do it.
quite well, but I’ve trained as a singer much of my life
Pretty well. The embellishments is how the song becomes really tricky. And I know the first verse…. which is generally all anyone considers
extremely well. i know all the words, can sing it in multiple different keys, and have done so on innumerable occasions.
Quite well, but I’m a trained singer. it’s a super awkward piece, TBH.
Pretty well, but I was a choir girl.
I would say most people know the lyrics, some people may mess up a few words here and there. Most people know the tune. The issue when it comes to singing it is hitting the high notes once you get to “and the rockets red glare,” especially if you start too high at the beginning.
Weirdly I walk outside just now and hear the Star Spangled Banner from afar and then see this post. To answer your question whoever is singing sounds pretty mediocre but far better than I could.
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Poorly
If you asked me to sing it solo, I’d probably sing on key but start from the wrong point.
If im singing along, no problem
I know the lyrics and can sing along to music, but I can’t sing a capella
Not great. I actually have some singing experience, but it’s hard to sing the Star Spangled Banner really well.
I can’t sing for shit lol. Also I only know the first verse, like most people.
Better than Roseanne but not as well as Maya Rudolph
Not at all. And thankfully it’s not required.
I know the words and basic melody. I am also terrible singer and it’s a near-impossible song to sing well, so…
I know the lyrics for the first verse (the only one that gets sung) but I don’t have any vocal control to speak of. My former neighbor who was a music major said I’m not tone deaf because I can pick out songs by ear on the mandolin, I just can’t get my voice to hit those notes. Like I know they’re wrong. so not well.
It’s not in my voice range, nor many people’s range for that matter but I know all the words of the first verse. The rest of the verses I need a lyric sheet.
Pretty well, I guess. I’ve done a few performances before various sports games (high school/college, nothing impressive) and I didn’t get booed out of the stadium. A lot of it comes down to picking the right note to start on.
Getting the lyrics right? 10/10. Everything else you mentioned? Less than that, it’s a hard song and I’m not much of a singer.
Lyrics? No problem. Hitting the high notes? No way.
One hundred percent.
When I was 10 years old, I told my mother I wanted to take piano lessons. Our church music director was also a teacher. She said, “I don’t take kids as students.”
I sat down and played the melody to the Star-Spangled Banner by ear with no music and no mistakes. Then she said, “I don’t **usually** take kids as students.”
I can’t sing ***any*** song “well”, although I know the words to many of them (including the Star Spangled Banner).
I can sing it, but absolutely no one will want to hear that.
I know the lyrics and the tune and can get through it without straining anything.
I know all the words and am a decent singer, but it’s a hard song to sing well.
Quite well but I also have training and have done it quite a few times (though mostly as part of a choir, only a couple times solo). It’s a surprisingly difficult song. An octave and a half range is no joke and the melody itself can be awkward. My old choir teacher used it as her audition piece to figure out where everyone was going to be placed. Which, at the time, I didn’t really get, but I do now.
I have sung this song every night to my kids. I start with this then “America the Beautiful.”
My oldest is 14 youngest is 2. So I sing to the littlest ones now. But then the older two were little this has always been my bedtime song selection.
Do I know the notes, pitch, and lyrics? Sure. I know the first verse, at least. I can imagine it in my head.
Can I sing it? HECK NO!
In the showers I’m a solid 9.8 out of 10 no matter what I’m singing.
Very well actually. I have vocal training and along with the choir I’m in sing it before a minor league baseball game about once a year.
100%.
Of course if you can already sing, a 1.5 octave range isn’t hard.
Really well. Sometimes I sing it in the car when I’m driving by myself! I’m supposed to stand and put my hand over my heart, but oh, well.
I will estimate that I am in between Bobby Vinton (who forgot the words, but remembered the tune) and Whitney Houston, who was iconic. Roseanne Barr shall not be mentioned.
Normal people can’t sing it well. It’s why you always need a trained singer to sing it at events
Pretty good. Years of choir in school and church have honed that particular skill.
Extremely well. I figured everyone did tbh
Pretty good. I have sung it at least a hundred times for various events.
Not at all, maybe, I don’t know? I know some of the words but it’s not like it’s sung everyday in school. Though many schools do say the pledge of allegiance every day or whenever there’s a special event; but the vast majority of cases I’ve seen the National Anthem (the Star Spangled Banner) is mostly sung during sparingly, mostly during special occasions. Then again in during most professional and quasi-professional college sports games it’s always sung; and can be sung before high school (or K-12) sports games though my school growing up didn’t emphasize that because it was a private parochial school.
All four stanzas, no prob. Singing, well, I used to be better. But it’s a difficult drinking tune to begin with.
I never learned all the lyrics and kinda suck at singing, so not at all.
Very well. Not Whitney Houston well, but enough to be asked to sing it at a sporting event.
I know all the verses even, including the “diss on the British” one.
Pretty well, since I took classical voice training.
All the verses?
I was a choir kid in high school, so I know the melody, a soprano descant that’s probably too high for me now, and two different alto/tenor harmony lines.
Basically, no matter what key they start in, I can sing along if I want.
*All* the verses. And I can make Kim Jong Un stand, put his hand over his heart, assuming he has one, and cry.
The best. I’m amazing.
I’m a classically trained soubrette soprano. I can do it.
quite well, but I’ve trained as a singer much of my life
Pretty well. The embellishments is how the song becomes really tricky. And I know the first verse…. which is generally all anyone considers
extremely well. i know all the words, can sing it in multiple different keys, and have done so on innumerable occasions.
Quite well, but I’m a trained singer. it’s a super awkward piece, TBH.
Pretty well, but I was a choir girl.
I would say most people know the lyrics, some people may mess up a few words here and there. Most people know the tune. The issue when it comes to singing it is hitting the high notes once you get to “and the rockets red glare,” especially if you start too high at the beginning.
Weirdly I walk outside just now and hear the Star Spangled Banner from afar and then see this post. To answer your question whoever is singing sounds pretty mediocre but far better than I could.