adam lambert

snifflese wrote:

Probably not a great idea as his falsetto is pretty weak. Since he has very rarely used it, he has trouble hitting it right. He is much more accurate when he uses his full voice or mixed voice. There was falsetto in his song, The Original High, and for his first few tour dates, he sang it with falsetto like the song was recorded. In short order he stopped that and sang it normally for him. Sounds much better anyway. Personally I am not a big fan of falsetto. Singers only use it because they can't hit the high note. I don't know why someone who could do it effortlessly would ever resort to falsetto. I think the powers that be wanted Adam to do what everyone else was doing as there is a lot of it in popular music right now, but sometimes it sounds like a strangled cat (Sam Smith comes to mind and that is what my husband called his singing when he heard one of Sam's songs with a lot of falsetto!!). Adam sounds much better when he goes for the note straight up and of course, it sounds a lot more powerful,nstead of as if the singer were gasping for air! Guess you can tell I don't much like falsetto!

I like falsetto. I guess I'm spoiled a bit by it by being a Queen fan.
I don't think people use it just because they can't hit high notes.
Strangled cat?! That's one way to put it. I really like how Sam uses it honestly.

Right! Why use falsetto when you have the real thing! LOL

SweetCaroline wrote:

Right! Why use falsetto when you have the real thing! LOL

AL has used it in case you missed it. And he may use it again. Wonder what you will say then if he uses it on his upcoming music.

I don’t think Freddie used falsetto. He had a great vocal range.

Adam used it sparingly in Music Again and TOH.

SweetCaroline wrote:

I don’t think Freddie used falsetto. He had a great vocal range.

Just goes to show what you know about Freddie. Not much.
Simply put, yes he used it.

I also didn't think Freddie used much falsetto and belted in full voice. There was more falsetto later when he had some issues with his voice, but originally I thought it was also always in full voice. Maybe an expert knows, because now I am curious.

snifflese wrote:

I also didn't think Freddie used much falsetto and belted in full voice. There was more falsetto later when he had some issues with his voice, but originally I thought it was also always in full voice. Maybe an expert knows, because now I am curious.

Saying he didn't use it much is different than saying a person thinks he never used it. It's very obvious when and how he did use it.
There are probably threads in the Queen sections that go into detail about it. No lie, some very good discussion here. Unfortunately I have gotta log out in a minute, otherwise I would look them up for you.
But yes, he used it.

Adam uses a bit of falsetto the studio version of Feeling Good. And Caroline, listen to “Don’t Try So Hard”. Great example of Freddie’s falsetto.

Adam uses a bit of falsetto the studio version of Feeling Good. And Caroline, listen to “Don’t Try So Hard”. Great example of Freddie’s falsetto.

snifflese wrote:

Probably not a great idea as his falsetto is pretty weak. Since he has very rarely used it, he has trouble hitting it right. He is much more accurate when he uses his full voice or mixed voice. There was falsetto in his song, The Original High, and for his first few tour dates, he sang it with falsetto like the song was recorded. In short order he stopped that and sang it normally for him. Sounds much better anyway. Personally I am not a big fan of falsetto. Singers only use it because they can't hit the high note. I don't know why someone who could do it effortlessly would ever resort to falsetto. I think the powers that be wanted Adam to do what everyone else was doing as there is a lot of it in popular music right now, but sometimes it sounds like a strangled cat (Sam Smith comes to mind and that is what my husband called his singing when he heard one of Sam's songs with a lot of falsetto!!). Adam sounds much better when he goes for the note straight up and of course, it sounds a lot more powerful,nstead of as if the singer were gasping for air! Guess you can tell I don't much like falsetto!

I'm with you on that, Adam doesn't need to use falsetto for the most part so I'm hoping when he said that it was just to avoid having to explain to everyone what he mean't if he used some other term, most people who don't know much about singing think all high notes are falsetto.

Brancelli wrote:

Adam uses a bit of falsetto the studio version of Feeling Good. And Caroline, listen to “Don’t Try So Hard”. Great example of Freddie’s falsetto.

I love Freddie vocals on DTSH. Very moving...it actually beats any high note by others at the same time. Late 80s and early 90s with Freddie being so ill and still managing to give it his all...
Absolutely amazing and incredible.
Sorry, not meaning to sound like I'm promoting Freddie, but I think you will understand.

Brancelli, that doesn’t sound like falsetto to me by Freddie, just his upper range. I don’t know what his full range was but on that song it sounds too good to be falsetto.

SweetCaroline wrote:

Brancelli, that doesn’t sound like falsetto to me by Freddie, just his upper range. I don’t know what his full range was but on that song it sounds too good to be falsetto.

What is falsetto to you? Genuine question.

SweetCaroline wrote:

Brancelli, that doesn’t sound like falsetto to me by Freddie, just his upper range. I don’t know what his full range was but on that song it sounds too good to be falsetto.

Some of the high notes aren't falsetto . . . he hits a really strong mixed voice D5, but a lot of the phrases are.

"Lap of the God's...revisited" , "Nevermore" and "My Fairy King" (Roger Taylor's falsetto on display as well) are some other examples I just thought of. Shit, he's got a lot a great high notes that are falsetto in several songs. The A5 in "Under Pressure" is falsetto.