Victoria Legrand (631 views)

[telepath]

(is this a good picture choice? I just love the Bloom shirt)
Victoria Legrand
Member of: Beach House
Vocal range: idk yet but I'm working on it, currently it's just an estimate of around A2-A5
Voice type: Whistle to a friend, contralto 'til the end

Please let me know if you have any tips or other useful information, this is my first thread and it's just for fun, since I really like Beach House and her voice.

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{Spoiler}{Vocal summary}Victoria Legrand's contralto voice, with its gentle vibrato, smoky yet weighty lows that reach into the lower third octave quite easily, and delicate, airy head voice is distinct amongst dream pop and shoegaze acts and has earned comparisons to singers such as Nico and Hope Sandoval. Some of her strongest moments occur in the middle and upper fourth octave with well sustained, gently soaring belts and throughout well rounded performances that display many of her voice's best facets ("Myth", "On the Sea", "Chariot", "Devil's Pool").

Significant High Notes:
A5
G♯5
G5
F♯5
F5
E5
E♭5
D5 ("Silver Soul")
C♯5 ("10 Mile Stereo", "Take Care")
C5 ("Lover of Mine", "New Year", "Norway", "Other People", "Troublemaker")
B4 ("Irene", "Silver Soul", "Troublemaker", "Used to Be", "Wild")
B♭4 ("10 Mile Stereo", "Myth", "Space Song" live Kings Theatre, Brooklyn, NY, 19.7.2022, "Silver Soul", "Take Care", "Troublemaker", "Walk in the Park")
A4 ("Better Times", "The Hours", "Lazuli", "Lover of Mine", "New Year", "Norway", "Real Love", "Silver Soul", "Take Care", "Troublemaker", "Wild", "Wishes")
G♯4 ("10 Mile Stereo", "Devil's Pool", "On the Sea", "Other People", "Used to Be")
G4 ("Become", "Better Times", "The Hours", "Lover of Mine", "Myth", "New Year", "On the Sea", "Wishes")

Significant Low Notes:
A3 ("Black Magic", "Holiday House", "Irene", "Lover of Mine", "Silver Soul", "Used to Be")
G♯3 ("10 Mile Stereo", "On the Sea", "Zebra")
G3 ("The Hours", "New Year", "Norway", "On the Sea", "Other People", "Real Love")
F♯3 ("Black Magic", "Devil's Pool", "Take Care", "Wishes")
F3 ("Better Times", "Irene", "Lazuli", "Myth", "Take Care", "Walk in the Park")
E3 ("The Hours", "Wild")
E♭3 ("Become", "Troublemaker", "Zebra")
D3 ("Irene")
C♯3 ("Wherever You Go")
C3
B2
B♭2
A2
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• Blue denotes falsetto and whistle passages.
• Boldface denotes outstanding passages.
• Italics denote non-melodic and spoken passages.
• Underlines denote obscured and background passages.

Notewatched material:
Beach House (2006) - 
Devotion (2008) - 
Teen Dream (2010) - E♭3 - B♭4 - D5
Bloom (2012) - C♯3 - B♭4 - C5
Depression Cherry (2015) -
Thank Your Lucky Stars (2015) -
B-Sides and Rarities (2017) - 
7 (2018) - 
Once Twice Melody (2022) -
Become EP (2023) - E♭3 - G♯4

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{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Questionable Notes}None at the moment :)

[Homelander]

She has a great voice! Can't wait for the thread to be finished! :)

[Alex61]

Well done on making your first thread! A couple of tips and pointers:
• Please don't use the hashtag symbol - use ♯ instead.
• I'm not sure what shade of blue you're using, but it doesn't appear to be the default one. We generally use default blue by inputting this
[color="blue"]Song Title[/color]
• If your thread doesn't use green or grey notes, you probably don't need them in your key underneath the thread - I've never really included them for that reason.
• Just for aesthetic purposes, it looks better if you capitalise the titles of sections (i.e - Significant High Notes, not Significant high notes).
• I'm not familiar with this lady's voice but G3 is quite low to be starting low notes for a female singer - if you're not sure it's always better to start your thresholds a little closer together (maybe A3 to start with). Even if you feel notes around A3 aren't significant, you can document and at least cut them out later. There's been plenty of times when people have been too conservative with their note inclusion and have gone on to regret it later!
• You seem to have an extra spoiler tag in your Questionable Notes spoiler - if you get rid of it, the section should be titled correctly.
• Generally, it's good to keep track of albums and whatnot as you're notewatching, so that both other users and yourself have a clear idea of what's been notewatched. Most users also include album ranges alongside this.

Apologies if that seems like a lot of information - let me know if it doesn't make sense

[Homelander]

Aug 25, 2024 19:08:50 GMT Alex61 said:

• I'm not familiar with this lady's voice but G3 is quite low to be starting low notes for a female singer - if you're not sure it's always better to start your thresholds a little closer together (maybe A3 to start with). Even if you feel notes around A3 aren't significant, you can document and at least cut them out later. There's been plenty of times when people have been too conservative with their note inclusion and have gone on to regret it later!

Definitely agree with this. G4 and A3 seem like very reasonable thresholds for this singer.

[telepath]

Thank you for the information! I made changes to what you pointed out, finished Bloom, added Become, and made some other small changes. I have limited knowledge in coding, but the minor formatting issues I experienced seem to have been fixed.

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hell yeah Beach House are awesome