Round Eight: Alex61 v ellie (426 views)

[Steve]

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

You have three categories this time! You can use any of your singers in Free Choice regardless of whether they were used in the other two categories, but if you choose to use all three of your singers and sweep, you'll get a bonus point!

The categories for Round Eight are:
1. Best Live Performance: A live vocal take done during a live show, a stage show or live in studio, etc.
2. Best Studio Performance: A studio recording of a vocal performance, which may include backing and/or harmony singing.
3. Free Choice: A clip you thought was interesting in terms of its vocal that you just really want to show off; you can use a song here that you were perhaps saving for a category but didn't get to use.

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

Vote here.

Current Vote Count: 3

[Alex61]

Howdy hey.

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{Best Live Performance}
THIS CLIP (whole thing) by Maureen McGovern singing "Little Jazz Bird". Initially some very lovely smooth jazz singing, but she soon ups the ante with some very impressive sixth octave scatting, a key change and some solid chesty singing before ending the performance with a two octave climb to F6!

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{Best Studio Performance}
THIS CLIP (1:44 - end) by Cher singing "Just This One Time". Cher's ultimate meme - the one performance where she hits sixth octave notes and one that spans almost three octaves. Beneath the meme, though, there's some lovely dynamics and wonderful singing across Cher's range.

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{Free Choice}
THIS CLIP (0:27 - end) from Yma Sumac singing "Malambo No. 1". I didn't realise until recently that this song saw some resurgence because of RuPaul's Drag Race, but it is honestly a swell compilation of everything Yma does well. The growl-y singing, the lower notes, the staccato highs and the sustained ones.

[ellie]

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{Billly Joel lives}

1:32 to 3:54 and then 5:04 to 5:46. The better song about New York

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{Studious Jonathan Manchild }

1:18 to 3:18 and then 3:30 to 4:34. Lows, highs, mids, grit, and falsetto what more could you ask for

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{Ben is free falling falling and he’s free falling }

Whole ass thing. For some reason my free choice tends to be a mix of harmony and a capella. Last year it was Rhett and Link doing a barbershop quartet style thing and now it’s Ben folds doing youtube a capella before it was cool. But yeah just try and think of this as harmony and a capella I guess