Freddie Mercury (82,528 views)

[siphonicwheat16]

Gets a nice B♭4/B4 here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hotVNaCP8tA&t=2m8s

Just a quick thing related to an earlier post on the thread was there ever a full consensus reached on the F6 here? www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpNxidiYpJo&t=4m42s

Or the C♯6 here? www.youtube.com/watch?v=arTFJcSd1MM&t=2m12s

[kaji]

I don't hear the F6. I do hear the C#6 quite clearly though.

[siphonicwheat16]

Initially hits an E♭6 then scales down to a note between C♯6 and D6! www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0i5yrns29E&t=3m10s

[queenfan11]

Pretty sure "Under Pressure" gets down to C#3 here:

[siphonicwheat16]

Apr 2, 2020 0:01:34 GMT queenfan11 said:

Pretty sure "Under Pressure" gets down to C#3 here:

Yeah, he hit's a C#3 there.

[damonkarma]

Did Freddy hit a F6? Why it is not counted?

[jaredletoisbackagain]

Apr 11, 2020 14:28:37 GMT damonkarma said:

Did Freddy hit a F6? Why it is not counted?

A lot of threads will have a "questionable notes" section at the bottom of the post, in a spoiler tag. This one does, for example.

[damonkarma]

thanks sir

[BAZanine]

Tfw this thread has stayed quiet for four months. Pure bliss.

[Henny Macc]

Not sure if this has been brought up before, but calling that live improv D6 a questionable note is just kinda ridiculous:


I also don't hear anything questionable about the notes in his "Communication Breakdown" cover, other than the fact that the tape speed is probably wrong on the recording. If you tried shifting that down by a whole step you'd probably have a bunch of pretty legit high notes worth counting.

[clem]

That D6 does sound intentional, to be fair.

[Baronessa]

Let me just ruin everything by saying I'd honestly count the "Get Down, Make Love" F6.

[Henny Macc]

Could I get a link to that one? I still don't think I've heard a legit F6 by him to date, despite him having been listed for one since at least TRP2.

But yeah, I think this thread in general could use some de-TRP3ing with some of the notes that are still being considered questionable

[Baronessa]

[Henny Macc]

I could consider that countable but italicized, yeah. Only thing is that I'm hearing it top at E6.

[Baronessa]

Oh damn u rite.

[ellie]

Forever doomed to be just out of reach of 4 octaves

[Henny Macc]

How are people feeling about the "One Year of Love" F♯5 these days anyway? I remember that one launched a fierce debate on TRP3 when I tried to argue that it shouldn't be considered questionable, but it also seems like a lot of people have now admitted that their standards were way too strict on TRP3 and have since loosened up, soooo...

[Holsety]

Let me just say that if we're counting all these random whistle notes Freddie has done, I see less reason to discount things like Macca's E6.

[Baronessa]

I mean the only thing that inhibits me from being for it is because it sounds inhaled, but that's probably a topic for another time.

Oh yeah, I stand by what I said about the "One Year of Love" F♯5 (in that it seems like it only incidentally grazes F♯5 and I'm pretty sure that's the same reason the "It's Late" E6 is spoilered), but I don't feel that strongly about whether or not we should count it.

[Henny Macc]

Aug 14, 2020 17:15:43 GMT Holsety said:

Let me just say that if we're counting all these random whistle notes Freddie has done, I see less reason to discount things like Macca's E6.

Post a link to that in the McCartney thread and tag me, and I'll give my assessment. I'm not the best at judging when whistles are inhaled or not, but as far as I'm concerned there are a lot of notes that got spoilered back on TRP3 that really didn't deserve to be (that Freddie D6 being a prime example of that, for instance), so if we're more open to reconsidering those verdicts nowadays, I'd be all for giving them more discussion.

Aug 14, 2020 17:21:09 GMT Baronessa said:

Oh yeah, I stand by what I said about the "One Year of Love" F♯5 (in that it seems like it only incidentally grazes F♯5 and I'm pretty sure that's the same reason the "It's Late" E6 is spoilered), but I don't feel that strongly about whether or not we should count it.

Eh fine, if people still aren't warming up to that one I guess I'll quit while I'm ahead here.

How do you feel about the "Communication Breakdown" high notes though? If we could get that recording shifted down to the correct tape speed, I think those would all be 100% countable.

[Baronessa]

Aug 16, 2020 19:55:05 GMT Henny Macc said:

How do you feel about the "Communication Breakdown" high notes though? If we could get that recording shifted down to the correct tape speed, I think those would all be 100% countable.

I agree with that, yeah. I mean it seems pretty easily deducible that it was performed in the original key.

[Henny Macc]

So that would make the F♯5s at 1:07 E5s, the A5 at 1:20 a G5, and then the string of G♯5 falsettos starting at 1:34 F♯5s. Any disagreements on these being countable/as those pitches?

Unfortunately I'm pretty sure RINGO isn't updating this thread anymore, so we'll either need to have someone take it over or have one of the admins edit these notes in if we ever want to see any actual changes on it.

[Baronessa]

No disagreement from me.

I actually suggested to queenfan11 the other day that he take over it and he said he'd think about it. Unless someone's able to get a hold of Greg and persuade him to come back I suppose.

[Setzer]

Aug 17, 2020 18:59:02 GMT Baronessa said:

Unless someone's able to get a hold of Greg and persuade him to come back I suppose.

Greg is taking a break from things - especially Queen - so I doubt that.