'Best Friend' is actually quite tricky, especially if you try to add all the ornaments he put in there.
Yeah, I agree with 'Dear Friends.' Range's just one octave (I think) and there's no modulation, plus it's short.
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Best Friend also hits some pretty high notes. But let's remember, Freddie himself often substituted notes - sometimes for variety and sometimes because his voice was screwed up - in live performance.
queen I version of SSOR :-)
These are the days of our lives is pretty easy on the voice, its quite hard to capture the emotion that Freddie had
Well, Love of my life. Not only Freddie sang it effortlessly, but it's the song the audience sang along the most. Must not have been too difficult to sing along.
Dear Friend is okay, but it's not easy to make a catchy singing out of it.
Dear Friend is okay, but it's not easy to make a catchy singing out of it.
LOML has some tricky high notes that no audience would ever reach. Also, there are some significant melodic skips that aren't all that easy to do.
I would actually disagree with Crazy Little Thing, I have never heard anyone ever recreate that studio vocal on a cover, heard countless covers, its not as easy as people think. live Freddie turned it into a full on rock song & by 1986 shouted the song