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Post by metislight on Nov 18, 2017 16:44:32 GMT -5
OMG!!! Adam...arrrggghhhh... its unfair to anyone I'll ever listen to in the future I still haven't retwatched Amsterdam -it was insane- but now I won't be able to get THAT note out of my head either.
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Post by vilynka87 on Nov 18, 2017 16:47:33 GMT -5
Oh!!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhh OMG OMG HE DID IT!!!!!AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH (is there a really good video of this??) omg omg!!!! I was at work and basically i listened only to parts of the concert. I guess i was just lucky or it was fate that i picked up the earphones and i hear him pick up the note. I froze! Later, after i understood where i was IRL my first thought was: Is the tech holding up or did he smash it all?
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Post by cassie on Nov 18, 2017 16:58:52 GMT -5
pi, thanks so much for posting the full show video, it's pretty wonderful. And the spectacular note in Under Pressure is shown perfectly starting at about 1:12:48 in that video. would love to hear cassie's thoughts on that note, btw. That glorious note. I know I frequently complain that people put too much emphasis on how high a note is, but in this case, it is worth admiring. Not just because it is freakishly high for a tenor, but because it is so well sung, which is my first criterion for a high note. For classical tenors, the range most often cited is C3-C5, the C below middle C on the piano and the C one octave above middle C. But there are many highly respected classical tenors who cannot reliably hit the C5 live with full voice. In those operas requiring the note, the audience eagerly awaits the moment in anticipation: will he hit it, will he dodge it, will he sing it in head voice instead of full voice, will he sustain it, will it crack? On the BBC program just aired about great voices, at around 6:00 an operatic tenor discussing Enrico Caruso's amazing voice talks about hitting the tenor high C. He says, "When you're singing it, and you hold it, it feels GOOD! Almost like you are flying." www.dailymotion.com/video/x69qlowThe note Adam hits is an E5, 2 full steps ABOVE the exalted tenor high C. Very, very few tenors are able to sing that note in full voice rather than head voice or falsetto. It takes a rare combination of the right physiology and excellent technique to do so. As you can tell from the UP clip, Adam has the goods in spades! He hits the note squarely, full voice, on pitch, with resonance and ring and vibrato, and holds it about 4 seconds. Professional tenors would sell their first born to be able to sing that note like that live. To hit that note in that way, Adam has to shift into overdrive. He frequently sings the high D5, one note below the E5 during concerts. That is unworldly high, too, but it is a comfortable part of Adam's range, it sounds like. In fact, when he is talking loudly or excitedly, his voice often hits that D5. But, to hit the E5, he has to "switch gears" as it were. The human voice has distinct areas of its range, each requiring a slightly different technique to sing, rather like cars that shift gears as they go faster and faster. When Adam sings below about a G3, I can hear the shift. It is minimal, but his power below that note is not as strong or resonant. Continuing up the scale from G3 he is strong and confident, but I hear a difference in tone and resonance at around D4 (just above middle C). The voice takes on it's maximum rich, round resonance with minimal effort. Then, as most tenors, he shifts his voice again at around G4-A4. Many tenors have to shift to head voice or falsetto at that point, but Adam can still sing full voice on up the scale on up to the D5. But that E5, that requires a shift to "overdrive". I don't understand the physiology of how it is done, but I suspect he blends chest and head voice to hit E5, F5 (which he often hits on the finale of WATC), G5 (Which he almost never does in concert these days) and above. Listening very carefully to the D5 he first hits on "whyyyyy", and then noting when he slides up to the E5, I can hear the slightest tightening of the tone, the slightest of strains until he lands on the E5 and it sits in his body, at which point it expands and floats. Or, at least, I THINK I hear it. Those highest of the high notes are difficult enough to hit and sustain, and probably difficult enough on his vocal cords that he is very wise to limit them to very occasional use when he is feeling most comfortable with his voice. One of the trademarks of Adam's voice is that, no matter how powerfully he is singing, no matter how high, he doesn't sound strained or pushed. It sounds effortless, and when he lands on the E5, that's how it sounds. A rare treat to hear. (I listened to it on the full concert video which has good quality sound throughout). Did that answer your question?
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Post by seoulmate on Nov 18, 2017 17:16:51 GMT -5
Thank you, cassie! Overdrive, indeed!! I never thought we'd hear that Under Pressure Ukraine note again!! It makes my hair stand on end.
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Post by vilynka87 on Nov 18, 2017 17:59:52 GMT -5
Adam in overdrive, we... in Heaven! Thank you Cassie!
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Post by red panda on Nov 18, 2017 18:06:16 GMT -5
cassie, I will never not love your in depth information. It bolsters my feeling that Adam is so accomplished and sings so effortlessly that the true extent of his artistry, learning and experience (coupled with his natural gifts) are SO under recognized. I can feel it, but it takes someone like you to give me true scope of what he is doing.
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Post by adamrocks on Nov 18, 2017 18:09:22 GMT -5
Cassie thanks for explaining the wonderful qualities of Adam's voice. Always so interesting. Could you tell me what note Adam is hitting at the iHeart Radio Music Festival show in Vegas at the end of WATC around at 30:57 mark? Thanks.
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Post by skaschep on Nov 18, 2017 18:21:04 GMT -5
Thank you all for your stories about how Adam played a role in your mishaps. Guess mine is part Adam's fault as well as my mind kept wondering off today. The last couple of weeks have been very busy with work and the concert was so amazing. I didn't have much time to process everything that happened in the days after. Today was the first day I had nothing and it was just very emotional. I haven't wrapped my head around enough to get that recap going. I think it will be a long one again though. So much great things happened in three days. Now I'm just very tired so going to bed. See you all tomorrow again!
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Post by cassie on Nov 18, 2017 18:27:24 GMT -5
Cassie thanks for explaining the wonderful qualities of Adam's voice. Always so interesting. Could you tell me what note Adam is hitting at the iHeart Radio Music Festival show in Vegas at the end of WATC around at 30:57 mark? Thanks. Yup, you caught it. That is the F5 I said that Adam sometimes hits at the end of WATC. He also does it here: youtu.be/OtGbvep1cMU?t=3m26s
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