Well, since we're nit-picking, LOL.
In "Somebody to Love," the falsetto 'to' towards the end is flat at first, but then Freddie bends it and adds vibrato, and the pitch becomes more true.
I happen to think that it was a conscious vocal choice, but it still kinda bugs me at times. :P
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[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Ravenetta wrote: [/QUOTENAME]well you gotta remember they couldnt fix one note back then, bri even said, its the take and that was it.[/QUOTE]
Not entirely true. Tape can be spliced to remove those little problems. And then just stick in a corrected word, or heck, even syllables!
I'm not 100% familiar with tape as I've only worked with it when pieceing together a speech. But it's not that difficult.
Peace,
Adam.
Not entirely true. Tape can be spliced to remove those little problems. And then just stick in a corrected word, or heck, even syllables!
I'm not 100% familiar with tape as I've only worked with it when pieceing together a speech. But it's not that difficult.
Peace,
Adam.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]beautifulsoup wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Well, since we're nit-picking, LOL.
In "Somebody to Love," the falsetto 'to' towards the end is flat at first, but then Freddie bends it and adds vibrato, and the pitch becomes more true.
I think it was a conscious vocal choice, but it still kinda bugs me at times. :P[/QUOTE]
I've noticed that too. I think it was intentional, because in the last few moments of the song, during the repetitions of "Find me somebody to love", Fred is doing all sorts of improv style vocal embellishments. One of these embellishments sounds exactly like the "to" you're speaking of, only it's just an "oo". It starts flat and goes up to true Eb. I've always considered it a kind of echoing of that line for effect.
In "Somebody to Love," the falsetto 'to' towards the end is flat at first, but then Freddie bends it and adds vibrato, and the pitch becomes more true.
I think it was a conscious vocal choice, but it still kinda bugs me at times. :P[/QUOTE]
I've noticed that too. I think it was intentional, because in the last few moments of the song, during the repetitions of "Find me somebody to love", Fred is doing all sorts of improv style vocal embellishments. One of these embellishments sounds exactly like the "to" you're speaking of, only it's just an "oo". It starts flat and goes up to true Eb. I've always considered it a kind of echoing of that line for effect.
How do you know Freddie didn't intend to do that, given that it actually exists and you aren't just fucking crazy?
Sweet Lady is sooooooo badly sung. it's overdubbed 3 and 4 times so mask up all the bad notes
On "Melancholy Blues", is it possible it was done "live" (at least the vocals)? I'm pretty sure that Brian said "Sleeping on the sidewalk" was a sort of first take/guide track done live in the studio and that when they went to try to do a better/improved version, they didn't like them and went back to the first take. Perhaps Freddie did multiple takes and decided to he liked that one the best?
I back-up Niek, Sweet Lady is horribly sang, as you can notice in the DTS Centre track.
Sometimes bad notes are left on purpose to give it more of a "live" feel....
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]goinback wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Sometimes bad notes are left on purpose to give it more of a "live" feel....[/QUOTE]
Exactly! :)
Exactly! :)