Round One: Alex61 vs BassSquared (464 views)

[Steve]

This is Alex61 v BassSquared in Round One of the Clip-Off. You have five days to submit your clips, and until 23:00 GMT Time Saturday, October 9 to vote. October 10 is the Results Day.

The categories for Round One are:
1. Best A Cappella Singing: Singing without instrumental accompaniment. The singer can be accompanied by other voices, however.
2. Best Vocal Duet: Two lead singers singing either in harmony, unison or taking turns.

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

Vote here.

Current Vote Count: 3

[BassSquared]

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{Best A Cappella Singing- Noa Gruman}

2:07 - 4:06. A pretty cool arrangement of Symphony X's "Paradise Lost" in which Noa sings all parts. Nice harmonies, range, and dynamics throughout, and a solid bit of Russell Allen-inspired grit in the lead vocal to top it all off.

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{Best Vocal Duet- Eva Noblezada}

1:35 to 3:35. Honestly, I wish I could link more of Eva's performance of Rent's "Take Me or Leave Me", since she fucking kills it all around, but this is the Duet category so I've gotta focus on the actual duet part. Still, it's a pretty fun duet, in which Eva pulls off some great vocal fireworks (including a casual E6) that contrast nicely with Shoshana Bean's more grounded performance.

[Alex61]

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{Best A Cappella Singing}
THIS CLIP (1:25 - 2:53) of Yma Sumac singing a cappella, her signature eccentric vocal antics and wide ranging make this a rather unorthodox a cappella clip. NOTE: It sounds like there is a guitar sound in the background, but she sung this live in the interview without a guitar, the guitar for some reason was stupidly edited on top of her singing. Skip to way earlier in the video and it's obvious she is singing a cappella.

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{Best Vocal Duet}
THIS CLIP (1:29 - 3:18) of Maureen McGovern and Jerry Lewis singing "Smile". Maureen has a few nice solo moments, but the interplay between the two of them is where the real gem of the clip is.