All About That Bass

Writer: 
Meghan Trainor
Year: 
2014
Voices: 
Women's four part
Ranges: 

Tenor: E3 - C#5
Lead: E3 - A4
Baritone: E3 - A 4
Bass: E3 - E4

This is a short, two-page arrangement of Meghan Trainor's cheerful and catchy defense of diversity in body-types. It was written to be workshopped, and can be learned and performed in an afternoon, and features vocal ranges accessible to relatively inexperienced singers. It starts off with the tune in unison, then split between upper and lower voices, before blossoming out into harmony, and passing the melody to the lead for the verse.

It is written in A major, as that is the key of the original, but leaves headroom to pitch it up should the voices need it.