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
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. 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").
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".
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).
Arnaldo "Ogre-" Silveira wrote:
I hate that part of One Year of Love from day one. It ruined a great ballad that could have been a hit.
Yeah - one of the very rare occasions where Freddie (and the band's) judgement on what was required for a part was not up to scratch. Apart from the first half of the first verse, where the delivery is more restrained and melancholy, It really is 'oversung' and could do with being reigned in. A rarity in that it's a song that even Freddie had trouble singing (God knows what wnyone else would do to it then!!)
Although I am.not a music scientist,I am sure that's a high note,although I prefer the high note near the end of the fallen priest,other subject that one year of love surely is not the typical ballad singing from Freddie, but surely another singer maybe would screw thesong,but I don't know if the usual mellow singing of Freddie would suit that song .I also would like to mention that in innuendo Freddie hadn't had that grunchy voice that had on the miracle album ,i think that had to do with his disease, what do you think?
madprofessorus wrote:
Although I am.not a music scientist,I am sure that's a high note,although I prefer the high note near the end of the fallen priest,other subject that one year of love surely is not the typical ballad singing from Freddie, but surely another singer maybe would screw thesong,but I don't know if the usual mellow singing of Freddie would suit that song .I also would like to mention that in innuendo Freddie hadn't had that grunchy voice that had on the miracle album ,i think that had to do with his disease, what do you think?
It was a combination of his disease (sadly) and his improved technique that gave Freddie his "Innuendo voice." He lost quite a bit of his vocal power (especially in his chest voice), so to compensate, he started to sing with a lighter voice (almost like his 70s style) and used more head voice to reach higher notes (rather than mix more chest into them).