Round Five: Baronessa v Alex61 (425 views)

[Steve]

This is Baronessa v Alex61 in Round Five of the Clip-Off. You have five days to submit your clips, and until 23:00 BST Time November 18 to vote. November 19 is the Results Day.

The singer you'll have to use this round will be the one you did not use in Round Three. Also, a thread has been opened for choosing your alt-team for round six!

The categories for Round Five are:
1. Best Singing Spanning an Octave or Less: A clip that's made interesting despite not spanning more than an octave of vocal range.
2. Best Singing Spanning Two Octaves or More: Singing that's probably going out of its way to sound impressive by spanning two octaves of vocal range or more.

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

Vote here.

Current Vote Count: 5

[Alex61]

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{Best Singing Spanning an Octave or Less}
THIS CLIP (0:53 - 1:56) from Cher singing The Star-Spangled Banner. Honestly pretty impressive stuff here spanning only C4 to C5, a dynamic performance with impressive sustains, vibrato and melismas.

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{Best Singing Spanning Two Octaves or More}
THIS CLIP (0:07 - 2:16, to clarify it's nine seconds extra just to include the end of a phrase which is only slightly over the time limit which I've generally said to people over the past four years is fine, but if you want to judge on the first two minutes alone I won't hold it against you) of Maureen McGovern singing "Flight of the Bumblebee". Two octaves wasn't enough for me - this spans E3 to F6. Very agile.

[Baronessa]

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{Best Singing Spanning an Octave or Less: Joe Lynn Turner - "Lunatic Fringe"}

3:05 - 4:11. Spans B3 - B4, and what a fucking B4 it is.

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{Best Singing Spanning Two Octaves or More: Andy Bell - "You Surround Me"}

1:36 - 3:34. Spans F2 - F5. This song pretty much showcases what the entirety of Andy's vocal range sounds like; highlights of course being the weighty F2s and mixed C5s. There's also a few F5s that come in to complement the ending fadeout.