Round Four: Baronessa v Breakfast in D-sharp (523 views)

[Steve]

This is Baronessa v Breakfast in D-sharp in Round Four of the Clip-Off. You have five days to submit your clips, and until 23:00 GMT Time Thursday, July 9 to vote. July 10 is the Results Day.

For this round, you have to use all your singers!

The categories for Round Four are:
1. Best High Singing: A performance that places particular importance on singing high notes. Relative to the singer. The clip doesn't have to be exclusively high singing but the more high notes are utilised and the higher they are (relative to the singer), the more appropriate it is for the category.
2. Best Low Singing: A performance that places particular importance on singing low notes. Relative to the singer. The clip doesn't have to be exclusively low singing but the more low notes are utilised and the lower they are (relative to the singer), the more appropriate it is for the category.
3. Best Usage of Mid-Range: Singing that's made interesting despite (or perhaps because of) not placing particular importance on either high or low notes. There are no concrete thresholds to mid-range, but your best bet is to try and gauge whether the singing sounds mid-rangy.

The pair are free to post their clips, voting commences as soon as they have.

Vote here.

Current Vote Count: 5

[Baronessa]

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{Best High Singing: Olivia Newton-John}

3:02 - end. Olivia basically runs through all of her high range, with the emphatic G♯5s running the show and an agile E♭6 passage thrown in there just as the cherry on top. I sure don't know what more to ask for.

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{Best Low Singing: Mike Patton}

5:14 - end. Mike spans mostly E♭2 - E♭3, with some phrases going down to C♯2, capping it off with a sustained E♭2. His weighty tone doesn't invoke much merriment in me, as opposed to make me feel as though a Disney villain was planning to ruin Christmas forever.

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{Best Usage of Mid-Range: Myles Kennedy}

1:50 - 3:43. If there's something clear about Myles Kennedy it's that he's deathly afraid of boring you, so even when he's only spanning E♭3 - F♯4 (with backing vocals spanning C♯3 - C♯5) he makes sure to use that range for all it's worth. To boot, he starts sustaining an E♭4 at 3:15, holding onto it while the backing vocals kick in and until the end of the clip, adding up to a solid 28 seconds.

[Breakfast in D-sharp]

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{Best High Singing}
Eddi Reader sings up to about D6 in this live performance of What You Do With What You've Got.
33:17-33:51, [midrangy bit], 34:03-34:23 (I included a little 4th-octave bit at the end to avoid an awkward cut-off point).

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{Best Low Singing}
I'm sure Mike Patton has something way lower, but this is definitely low for Billy MacKenzie (and it's lovely).
0:17-0:42, [instrumental], 0:58-1:25

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{Best Usage of Mid-Range}
This gently haunting performance is about as mid-rangy as you can get, spanning C♯4-G♯4 (Susan actually remains within that range for the whole song).
0:16-1:18

[Steve]

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