Posted on 04/06/2010 5:56:41 AM PDT by silent_jonny
>>It works better to sing vertically if that makes sense. <<
Sinatra, Bing, Deano and the crooners sang “round” — they relaxed their throats and let the notes flow naturally. To do that is a combination of hard work on technique and a gift from God.
Vertical singing invariable produces pleasing results, but IMHO, it was that “rounding” that create the casual and thus accessible sound that made the crooners seem so earthbound. It almost sounded like they were chatting with you, yet they would cross 2 octaves to do it.
I think the horizontal clip that Lee uses approximates the rounding sound of the crooners, but close inspection will find him wanting. It works.
BTW: Harry Connick, Jr. also has that amazing crooner rounding ability.
Nothing against Lee — he hit the notes but it explains why some people hear a flintiness in his singing.
Now, for most people, vertical singing is the best strategy. Crystal uses it to great effect and that is how she spans the different genres so well.
We are all waiting for your posts of singing, Fla Voter — I am willing to bet you are fantastic! :) I am pretty sure you can posts wavs on Photobucket if YouTube is a problem.
WTH was that!?
LOL!!
LOLOL! My thoughts exactly :)
OMG the Physical video with ONJ is hysterical!
‘Night jonny!
Thanks as always — you are the hoster with the moster!
Let us all prepare to gather tomorrow to put Casey on a boat, soak with gasoline, flick a match and send to meet his Idol Charon on the River Styx (not Osborn nor Tommy Shaw’s).
If you have a hat on, prepare to take it off for tomorrow’s wake.
Then we will turn it into an Irish wake!!
And you were right.
BWAHAHA!
LMAO! True.
Hi, Twin! :)
LOL!
Exactly.
To make it sound easy takes a lot of practice initially. I sing vertically when I need to get above high F without destroying my voice. When I’m not hvg to hit high notes, I very much figure everything out by the lyrics and what the song is about. I’m sunk until this tooth pull quits hurting. I can type about singing for now but I really miss singing.
Neither Aaron or Casey had much control tonight. Aaron isn’t singing from his gut or he’d have a stronger sound and he would be able to keep his vibrato but there’d be something behind it: support.
Remember Charlotte Church? She’s got a very nice lyric soprano voice. She had a baby, got married or not and kind of went goth. I have no idea what she’s done lately but she has a great soprano voice.
Thanks for the pic of Crystal’s tat. I couldn’t quite make it out under all the makeup they put on it.
I thought it was a heart.
I loved that video! ONJ looks darn good in it too! I always thought she was a cutie.
Of course it's got to be rigged. They took out Aaron and Casey cuz they want it to be the white hippie chick vs. the black baby daddy. imo
Agree. I think that sticks in the viewer's mind more than the song.
LOL! I wish they could have brought back the drama-cam just for tonight so we could see Mike’s reaction when Lee made everyone forget about him.
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