Acapellas...?

Question

how or is there a way of making a song a acapella?

Answer 1

What do you mean by this? Today, a cappella is defined as "singing without instruments", so all you have to do is to open your mouth and start singing. :-)

A lot of music that was written for the church during the Middle Ages is a cappella (translated from Italian, a cappella means: "in the style of the chapel"). Just search online or at your local music store for sheet music that has been written for only voices.

If you are talking about arranging an acappella style of singing (ex: Barbershop singing, or Rockapella from the tv show "Carmen Sandiego") then you need to have knowledge of musical harmonies, or find a friend who does.

You could also try poking around www.a-cappella.com to see if you find any music you like. So you know, it's easier to find arrangements for mens groups, rather than womens groups, for the simple reason that there are more mens groups out there.

Answer 2

A cappella music is vocal music or singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. A cappella is Italian for like in the chapel (music); the term is due to the fact that Christian churches sang without instrumental accompaniment for the first several hundred years of its existence.