Round 3: 'S vs BiDS (461 views)

[Steve]

This is 'S v Breakfast in D-sharp in Round Three of the Clip-Off. You have five days exactly to submit your clips, and until midnight EST Monday, December 12 to vote. December 13 is the Results Day.

Round Three is the One-Singer Wonder round, in which you must use the same singer for both categories. The categories for Round Three are:

1. Most Pleasant Tone: Affecting a satisfying tone in order to sound pleasing to the ears in one way or another.
2. Best High Belting: Utilizing one's chest and mixed voices to reach powerful high notes. Heady mix is acceptable too, but the chestier it sounds and the more 'ring' it has the better.

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

Vote here.

Current Vote Count: 4

['S]

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{Most Pleasant Tone - Judy Garland}0:00–1:49. Judy sings with a beautiful warm and conversational tone here, getting a little fuller as she progresses. Really pleasant and comfy.

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{Best High Belting - Judy Garland}3:03–3:54. This has Judy's highest full-pelt belting and well if we're looking for ring and power well we've got spades of it here. Yes !

[Breakfast in D-sharp]

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{Most Pleasant Tone}Thomas Quasthoff - Stardust. The studio version is on an album called Nice 'N' Easy, which (as well as being the title of a song) is a pretty good description of his pleasantly relaxed style (I had almost the entire album on my shortlist before finally deciding on this beautiful rendition, the end of which would have been my Sustained Low Notes entry had that category won the vote).
6:50-8:50

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{Best High Belting}Thomas Quasthoff builds up to a bunch of big belty notes (even adding some emphatic gravelly texture to one) in his upper range in You And I. I think this clip showcases his most sustained and resonant belting. 
3:39-4:31

ETA: it has come to my attention that the above video is unavailable to some listeners, and there doesn't seem to be an alternative upload available on YouTube. If this works for you instead, here's a Spotify link (if it just shows the album, select track 4, You And I. Timestamps approx 1 second earlier than YT (i.e. 3:38-4:30).