Round Four: galaxyseal v Breakfast in D-sharp (291 views)

[Steve]

This is galaxyseal v Breakfast in D-sharp in Round Four of the Clip-Off. You have five days to submit your clips, and until 23:00 BST Time November 8 to vote. November 9 is the Results Day.

The categories for this round are:
1. Best High Singing: A performance that places particular importance on singing high notes. The clip doesn't have to be exclusively high singing but the more high notes are utilized 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. 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 teams are free to post their clips, voting commences as soon as they have.

Vote here.

Current Vote Count: 2

[galaxyseal]

okayyyy let's go

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{Best High Singing: Cleo Laine - On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)}
1:13 - 3:03. Her signature vocal performance, and for good reason too. Cleo gives us a wonderful showcase of her higher range here with some powerful belting, plenty of strong head voice and, as the cherry on top of the performance, a well-executed whistle note. Overall, a performance with excellent control and variety, showing off every bit of her upper register at its finest. NOTE: Playback seems to not work directly from TRP but should work fine when opened in YouTube itself.

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{Best Low Singing: Miley Cyrus - I'm Your Man}
0:23 - 1:03. Miley continues proving that she is not to be underestimated as singer. She puts her lower register on full display here, singing comfortably all the way down to B2 live, with some vocal runs here and there.

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{Best Usage of Mid-Range: Mitski - Pearl Diver}
1:17 - 2:39. This clip mostly spans B♭3 - B♭4 (minus one or two G3s and a C5). Mitski showcases a nice portion of her mid-range here: featuring some nice vocal runs, variety in dynamics and register transitions that highlight her singing well (despite it mostly being in the fourth octave). Near the end of the clip, there's also a really nice sustained passage which, to my knowledge, is sung all in one breath. NOTE: please focus solely on the lead vocals when voting.

[Breakfast in D-sharp]

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{Best High Singing}Elaine Paige - The Prisoner. A belter with oodles of strong 5th octave notes (topping at A5).
2:30-4:28ish (lead vocal - I'm not sure if any of the backing vocals are her)

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{Best Low Singing}David Essex - Look At Your Face. The whole song uses only an octave range, bottoming at A2 which I think is about as low as David Essex ever gets (and if you're not familiar with him you're probably just going to have to take my word for that because, in common with my other singers, he has no range thread yet).
0:21-2:00

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{Best Usage of Mid-Range}Michael Cavanaugh - Rock This Town. A quickie here: the 2-minute clip (less if you skip the piano solo) is almost the entire song. This brisk and bouncy performance (which includes a bit where he sings 4 lines in one breath in less than 9 seconds) is mostly about D3-F4 (with one comfortably mid-rangey A4).
55:28-57:28 (or 55:28-56:29 & 56:53-57:28 if you don't like piano)