Yep, two months have gone by, and I'm back to this thread!
Hopefully you can still help me out, with some of my tiring questions!
This time I'll choose well-known songs, so that you might easily find them. Let's take Queen's "A Kind Of Magic", for example, ok? I'll try to explain what I hear in Mercury's voice, ok?
After the intro and the first verse (which are sung 'normally') which ends with "...can win these days" comes a line where I suppose he is singing in a different way: "The bell that rings... is challenging" and then goes back to normal for "the doors of time". The same 'switching' seems to take place on the lines (in the refrain) "There can be only one, this rage that burns a thousand years, will soon be gone" (on the higher notes). I can understand:
1. A different sound in his voice
2. If you listen carefully you'll notice a "strange" ending at the end of each line, like he doesn't let his voice drop, but takes it to a certain point and then cut it (I can't explain myself better, but I hope you'll understand what I mean
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3. He always lowered these parts in concert. There he only went up to an A (where you could hear that he could not produce a steady tone, but could only keep it for a very short time and it didn't sound relaxed)and took everything else, which would normally be higher, down one octave or sth harmonic.
Also, I'll do the same thing for Shaman's "For Tomorrow". In this song the switching is far more noticable, and it occurs just before G, or something. Forget the intro, which is all in low notes, let's go to the beginning of the heavy part, ok? I write down all lyrics, and highlight all words I hear in a 'different-than-normal' sound. Thus, bold words are the 'non-normal' ones
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Day and night we
built a reign with heavenly desire
Sweat and dreams made up the bricks that raised up our walls
Paying tribute to the gods and blood kept on flowing
And the lust for knowledge was the sense of it all
Fly, fly to the stars, reach them on high
Bring up the answers of the night
Roll with the clouds, sing with the birds,
Cause one day we'll have to say goodbye
(maybe some words are sung normally in the last verse, there's not such a big difference though).
Here I can also notice that sometime Matos is not really accurate on the notes, just before the changes (that is, the lowest notes he hits with his 'not-normal'- voice) like for example the word 'the' in the second line. That's what I can hear. But maybe I'm wrong. If anyone has the time, please let me know your opinion on this. And please also tell me (if the switching really happens and is not only my idea), what is that thing there? It's when he switches from head to chest voice and vice versa?
Thanks so much,
Menelaos
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