Round Three: Alex61 v Baronessa (502 views)

[Steve]

This is Alex61 v Baronessa in Round Three of the Clip-Off. You have five days to submit your clips, and until 23:00 GMT Time Saturday, October 29 to vote. October 30 is the Results Day.

The categories for this round are:
1. Best Usage of Vibrato: Singing that favours tremolo of the voice in order to add, for example, emotion, richness or gravitas to the performance.
2. Most Pleasant Tone: Affecting a satisfying tone in order to sound pleasing to the ears in one way or another.

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

Vote here.

Current Vote Count: 1

[Alex61]

Sorry it's so late, Baronessa!

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{Best Use of Vibrato}
THIS CLIP (0:42 - 2:02) from Yma Sumac. I chose a bit of an unorthodox clip here because it showcases very well-controlled vibrato in so many aspects of her voice - her gravelly chest voice, her softer chest voice, her lower head voice and her whistle register. Her voice itself may be a bit zany, but if you take that out of the equation, the vibrato is very well done in multiple aspects - plus, how many vibrato clips are you going to get which span F♯3 to F♯6?

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{Most Pleasant Tone}
THIS CLIP (1:43 - 2:43ish) from Maureen McGovern. I hate this category, but Maureen has quite a nice lullaby-ish soft tone here with an absolutely gorgeous head voice.

[Baronessa]

Ligma, Alex61!

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{Best Usage of Vibrato: Lzzy Hale - "Takes My Life"}

1:58 - 2:54. Lzzy does a few climbs to clean, vibrato-laden F5s, throws vibrato into some of that insane rasp, and caps the clip off with screams up to C6 (which, if you didn't get it already, contain vibrato). I think that's pretty impressive, y'know?

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{Most Pleasant Tone: Andy Bell - "Blues Away"}

1:23 - 2:42. Andy spans a tender G2 - D5 with that exact mezza voce-styled approach that I expect from my tone clips: clear in tone though not quite soft nor breathy. This is including harmonies, which I think add a lot to the general bouncy sweetness of the clip.