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Post by EmoElvisSpikeyMessyElvis on Jun 24, 2013 23:39:34 GMT -5
Fuck. I love him... more than I want to...
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Post by cassie on Jun 24, 2013 23:41:48 GMT -5
Cassie here's another tweet for you to explain for us!'
Mary, Please ∞ S4A scorpiobert
RT @sxmglambert: That bitch is crazy. Who belts an 'e' vowel on 'free' on high C much less above it? Damn him. Actually, she is referring to the same notes and words that the earlier one was. Malcolm, was it? Here's a little more explanation. The tenor range is generally accepted to be C3-C5. (The C below middle C on the piano, to the C above middle C). The C5 is referred to as the tenor high C, and is the benchmark for a top tier tenor in solo clasical music. In choir music, tenors are not expected to be able to sing the high C. The tenor parts in choral music usually top out at the G4 or possibly A4, several notes below the tenor high C. But, for a solo operatic tenor, being able to sing the high C consistently, in full-voice, with power and ring is highly prized. There are many highly respected tenors who cannot hit it. Here is a demonstration of the tenor range, C3-C5. Of course we know that the tenor high C is a piece of cake for Adam. He regularly sings it, and far beyond it. Adam hits it multiple times here on Is Anybody Listening, starting at 3:05, and ending with a brilliant C5. He actually at one point hits an Eb5, 3 notes above that. In this song, he sings the note with basically an open AHHH vowel, the easiest vowel to hit those high notes with. As I said before, the EEEEE vowel is much more problematic to sing when you get up in that stratosphere. This is because of how the mouth is shaped to form an EEEEE. It is for this reason that folks are freaking out to hear Adam sing a brilliant, ringing C5 on the word "free." ETA: At 0:36 he sings a C#3, just a half step above the bottom of a tenor's range (tho', again, we heard Adam sing lower than that on Runnin). So this number has a range of C#3-Eb5, just over two full octaves. Very challenging. |
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Post by Craazyforadam on Jun 24, 2013 23:45:26 GMT -5
Oh my goodness. He took that whole room full of Broadway singers and performers to school. I am dazed as well as amazed.
Here is an audience that expects naked men swinging from chandeliers accompanied with every form of musical and visual bombast imaginable and here comes Adam, goes on stage and sings first of all a cappella, secondly with about as no frills a costuming as you will every see from Adam, but then fully dressed as compared to the rest of the various levels of undress in the rest of the show. Then he is singing SSB, a song that everyone knows and most people in that room probably have tried to sing in front of a group at some point in their life, a song that is complex to both grasp as well as perform, and he presents it is such a way that his performance is the most memorable moment or at least among the top of the whole night.
Vocals alone can sometimes do that - they can compete with all the bombast, just on their own. But only very few are gifted to achieve that level of impact.
This is a room full with singers, and everyone of them can go play this video at home and see whether they can match this, and I think that there may not be a person in the room that is able to do what Adam did here.
Some may be able to match him in range, even though F#5 for a male voice is going to make this a very, very small group right there.
Some may be able to match him in interpretive skills, even though the group will be a small one.
Some may be able to match him in resonance or in projection, but very few will meet that criterion.
Some may be able to match his nuancing when he goes for subtleness (i.e. the trembling and fear expressed in 'through the night'), but few will do it that well.
Some may be able to match his riffs, but there will be very few who can do all of these different ones.
Some may be able to match the length of his breath, but it will be few who can.
But I believe there will be nobody who could do it all, like he just did.
When Meatloaf put Adam in the same category as Whitney Houston and Aretha Franklin, and many shook their heads at that statement, they should be sent here to this video. They will shake their heads no more.
If a music school is looking for material for vocal lessons, they just found 1:16 minutes of one heck of a vocal lesson.
I agree with all that was said here about making this an embellished performance for the Broadway crowd, about showing reverence to the song and yet using the material to tie in with the camp-ness of the evening, but I also think there is another aspect to this.
To me this performance was also about "Pride", as in gay pride. Yes, he is singing about the SSB and not about the rainbow flag, but in many ways, in spite of the many road blocks that Adam has found put in his way - the chorus boy only treatment, the idol voter treatment (wanna compare Kris' SSB to this? Yah, I don't think so), the pop radio treatment, the media treatment on many occasions, and sometimes even the treatment from those that in general want him well, like RCA or even his fans), after all this, guess what, Adam and his music and his career are still there and very much flying as high as this flag in Fort Sumter was.
As much as this was a SSB performance, this performance was also very much a personal one. It was brave to sing a cappella, it was courageous to even perform the SSB at such an event, it was a proud moment to do it like this.
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Post by minnie12 on Jun 24, 2013 23:50:09 GMT -5
I went in under Adam Lambert sings the Star-Spangled Banner and hit search. Bought up whole song, first part difficult to hear due to all the screaming and shouting. This will bring up an article which has the whole song about mid way down, you can see the video.
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Post by adamrocks on Jun 24, 2013 23:54:10 GMT -5
Thanks Cassie for the explanation. I don't know much about all that amazing vocal stuff but I just know Adam makes me feel and connect every time I listen to his voice...heck even just listening to him talk! lol
Adam = THE VOICE! That's how I can explain it! 
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Post by adamrocks on Jun 25, 2013 0:00:52 GMT -5
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Post by evergreen on Jun 25, 2013 0:18:07 GMT -5
There were many splendid posts here today - it's been a joy to read them, as well as listen to Adam sing the SSB many times. Before calling it a day, I listened one more time, and for some reason I thought of the Les Mis "debates." Another instance where Adam stood his ground. For all who questioned whether he knew what he was talking about, and why he should think he had any right to offer his opinion... they just need to watch that video. Well, I guess I'll watch it one more time.........  |
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Post by adamrocks on Jun 25, 2013 1:28:07 GMT -5
Craazyforadam I really loved your post. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us.
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Post by lorraine on Jun 25, 2013 3:33:58 GMT -5
So I guess the most famous salute of my lifetime-one that caused a hush all over the world-----3 year old John -John Kennedy saluting his slain father's casket was irreverent???? |
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Post by lorraine on Jun 25, 2013 3:37:57 GMT -5
So I guess the most famous salute of my lifetime which caused a hush all over the world- made by 3 year old John-John Kennedy to his slain father's casket was irreverent????? Since when is it disrespectful for a civilian to salute the flag?
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