Singalongs of Skyrim

This mod aims to add more immersion to inns by giving bards new songs to sing and new tunes to play, with up to five vanilla voiced NPCs joining in. Mod added NPCs that use vanilla voices will also be included.

Overview

• []12 new instrumental tunes for bards to play

  []4 songs for the audience in inns to sing along with

  []7 new original songs sung by bards

  []1 poem recited by bards

  []1 scene with Jon & Olfina

  []1 scene where Lurbuk will sing

  To hear one of the new songs or tunes, simply ask a bard in an inn if they can play a song everyone can join in with. There are four singalong songs in total and these will differ depending on the bard's voice type.  Up to five other NPCs will gather round and join in the song. Others will heckle and be generally grumpy and yet others will just dance along with the fun. Active followers are excluded from joining in. The audience will differ depending on which voice type NPCs are nearby.

  Please note that just like in real life, not everyone has perfect pitch or a good singing voice, so the audience may well be out of tune and/or have bad timing. This is entirely deliberate, I'm going for more of a drunken singalong in a tavern rather than a perfect 5 part harmony vocal choir. The beauty of the mod is that as it's all done by dialogue, if you don't want to hear the singalongs, just don't ask for them.

  With some songs, they will agree to sing but will tell you that it's not very well known so people won't sing along, so they'll play it on lute and sing it for you. Again, some members of the audience will comment, grumble, dance, applaud etc. The bard will perform their song in their own voice. The songs they perform will differ by voice type or individual bards. See the article for full details.

  You can also ask the bard to play some background music. They'll pick a random tune from a setlist of 12 and play it. These are all original (generated) tunes and hopefully lore-friendly. You can only request songs and tunes if you're in an inn.

  For songs and tunes, you can only request them between 9am and 11pm and only if the bard is not already performing one of them. There's a 1 hour (in-game) cooldown on asking for songs and half an hour for tunes.

  The singalong songs from vanilla are Ragnar the Red and The Dragonborn comes. Again it depends on which voice type as to what they will sing. I've also made entirely new songs either from scratch or by expanding existing lines in the vanilla game. For instance sometimes NPCs will mutter 'with three beers down.....etc' and I've written more verses to flesh the song out.

  Male Nord bards will sing The Pirate King of the Abecean and the lyri