Its funny that évery thread i`ve read about Freddie`s range mentions the Barcelona high note as an F.... but its a C5.
"The moment that you step into the room you took my breath (Thats been sung on G#4s and G4s)áááááwahahahahahahaayyy(That bit is a C5 with a scale down to a Bb3)"
So, i dont know how everybody thinks its an F... Its obviously lower than the Innuendo Eb5 ánd that one sounds pretty strained, so no way he could`ve pull off such a clean F5. (Unless its a falsetto somewhere in the harmonies, But still, that would`ve been falsetto..and not full)
(With no disrespect to Freddie or any of you guys.. i think Freddie was thé best singer / frontman ever, and his voice/songs are ámazing, i`m a big Queen fan for 10 years.. but that note just isnt an F5 but a C5...)
I just wanted to tell Queenzone that. Because, Freddie.. well, he was almost unreal, but nót THAT unreal :D
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It's on an alternative take of the song (and it's a background note).
Gregsynth wrote: It's on an alternative take of the song (and it's a background note).
Could you give me a timestamp and link maybe?
BradMay wrote:
Gregsynth wrote: It's on an alternative take of the song (and it's a background note).
Could you give me a timestamp and link maybe?
Sure. I'm currently looking through them!
Anything yet?..
Hurry up Greg! :P
can people not get over hitting an F whatever. No cares. It's like these posts saying Freddie hits a E or something on we are the champions and the rest of the song is then out of tune. ridiculous
una999 wrote:
can people not get over hitting an F whatever. No cares
Evidently, people do care. You're just not one of those people. I'm so, so sorry.
una999 wrote:
can people not get over hitting an F whatever. No cares. It's like these posts saying Freddie hits a E or something on we are the champions and the rest of the song is then out of tune. ridiculous
You completely missed the point. The OP was mistakenly thinking that a note wasn't what it was. I simply time-stamped where the F5 was.
It is a pretty neat find because that note is only on that version of Barcelona (plus it's only one of two full-voiced F5s Freddie has hit on a song - the other one being on "All God's People").
He hits some pretty high notes in'full voice' in One Year Of Love too - has any analysis been done on that?
cmsdrums wrote:
He hits some pretty high notes in'full voice' in One Year Of Love too - has any analysis been done on that?
Freddie gets some C#5s. He also hits an F#5 (I'm a prisoner of LOOOOOVE) in falsetto.
Gregsynth wrote:
Freddie gets some C#5s. He also hits an F#5 (I'm a prisoner of WAAAAAR) in falsetto.
It should be prisoner of LOOOVE - are you entering military service soon ? :-)
Hitting an F#5 in falsetto - maybe that was the reason why he left the song as it was although it sounds "oversung".
tcc wrote:
Gregsynth wrote:
Freddie gets some C#5s. He also hits an F#5 (I'm a prisoner of WAAAAAR) in falsetto.
It should be prisoner of LOOOVE - are you entering military service soon ? :-)
Hitting an F#5 in falsetto - maybe that was the reason why he left the song as it was although it sounds "oversung".
Ah! I can't believe I fucked that up! Whoops!
Anyway, the vocal performance does sound a bit OTT, but I think Freddie wanted to sing that song in the style of 60s/70s R&B/soul (using all those vocal embellishments).
I hate that part of One Year of Love from day one. It ruined a great ballad that could have been a hit.