Empty Orchestra start singing. The music was pumped up and we had a mini party, with mad dancing – that was a memorable scene to film." The filming introduced a number of technical challenges, with the producer Adam Tandy explaining that the simultaneous singing and conversing made production particularly difficult: "To record it all 'clean' and have options in the edit, that was technically hard on everybody." Typically, karaoke scenes in television will see characters sing only the opening lines, but because of the format of "Inside No. 9", the characters in "Empty Orchestra" sing the whole song. Each character sang a
Bar form to refer to a particularly artful song – the type one composes in songwriters' guilds. The AAB pattern does, however, describe each stanza in a Meistersinger's "Bar", which is divided into two "Stollen" (A), which are collectively termed the "Aufgesang", followed by an "Abgesang". The musical form thus contains two repetitions of one melody ("Stollen" – 'stanzas') followed by a different melody ("Abgesang" – 'aftersong'). One such tune ("Ton" in Meistersinger terminology) by Hans Folz (c1437–1513) illustrates this: Note that the B section is not necessarily the same length as each A section. The B section can also incorporate parts