Can we be serious here for a moment?
YOU probably shouldn't be signing the National Anthem. (The Star
Spangled Banner)
I'm not trying to insult you.
I'm just being direct in order to spare you later pain and/or your audience.
I don't even know you and I know that statistically speaking if you are visiting
this page you are unqualified to sign a song in ASL in front of an audience
other than your mirror and your mother (if she has had taken a mild sedative).
Even after dozens of hours of practice.
Why?
Because it doesn't take "dozens" of hours of practice -- it takes thousands.
I'm not kidding.
Singing (other than the carefree childlike kind that people don't really
care if there is talent involved as long as the kid is yours or is cute) is at a
level of skill beyond regular fluent speaking or signing.
That means (for those of you with no common sense) you have to be a better signer
than normal in order to appropriately sign a song in a way that an
audience of native signers will actually appreciate (instead of checking their
purses and pockets for sedatives).
Since you are here, I'm going to tell you the two simple steps it takes to sign
a song appropriately:
1. First you get really good at signing in general. (Thousands of hours.)
2. Then you get really good at signing a specific song. (Dozens to
possibly hundreds of hours.)
Simple.
Hearing people often want to learn to sign the National Anthem so they can stand
up in front of other Hearing people, wave their arms earnestly in the air for a
few minutes, and then bask in the glow and adulation of other Hearing people who
have no clue that you have no clue that you just insulted their mother --
because you thought you were signing the National Anthem but due to having
attempted to learn it from a website you instead ended up signing some rather
amusing sexual innuendos, Signed English, or just plain gibberish (those last
two being pretty much the same).
I'm not going to teach you how to sign the National Anthem. Sorry.
But hey, I'm going to tell you were you can see it being done in a professional
manner: At the Super Bowl.
The performers there for the past few years have been doing a GREAT job of
signing it.
John Maucere performed the National Anthem at Superbowl XLVII (Superbowl 48).
Amber Zion performed the National Anthem at Super Bowl XLVIII (Super Bowl
48). See: https://youtu.be/snpsG7jmUGM in the small box on the
bottom right of the clip.
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