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Post by adamrocks on May 29, 2016 11:04:54 GMT -5
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Post by adamrocks on May 29, 2016 11:05:32 GMT -5
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Post by cassie on May 29, 2016 11:06:11 GMT -5
Play the Game has become one of my fav songs on this tour....kinda like Lap of the Gods was last tour. Similar placement...similar vibe. I love them both. Same videographer in Barcelona and Cologne....PTG I am also loving this little snippet of a song. It may sound very simple and unadorned, but it is fiendishly difficult for a tenor to sing in that key and in that style. We've talked a lot about chest voice, head voice, falsetto, low register, high register, etc. This melody crosses back and forth over what is the natural break for a tenor between chest and head voice (or, if the singer cannot access his head voice, chest and falsetto.). The few notes of transition on either side of the "break" are called the singer's "passaggio." One of the biggest challenges for a classical singer is to make the passaggio seamless, so that the tone, resonance and volume of the notes, low to high, sound the same. What's so difficult about that? As an analogy, imagine that you have two fan-made videos of Adam singing the same song. The problem is that there is interference, a fan screaming, and static on both videos, but at different places in the song. You want to create an audio combining the two versions into one, but the recordings were made with two different cell phones from two different places in the auditorium. How do you balance the different frequencies, volumes, echos, clarity, and color? I don't know anything about the electronics involved, but I can imagine you would need some sophisticated software and meticulous editing, plus a very fine ear. Or, take the analogy of painting a picture. Let's say you are creating a beautiful landscape with a meadow, a lake, and a rainbow. You set it aside for a while, and your husband gets irritated that you left your painting supplies out all over the place, so he throws them all out. The original paints have been discontinued, and you have to finish the painting using different paints by different manufacturers, and in acrylic rather than oil. How do you make the rest of the painting seamlessly blend with the first part? In PTG, the words "INSIDE," "DECIDE" and "play the GAME" require a register shift to head voice, then, immediately back to chest voice for the next words. Adam adjusts the quality of the tone of his chest voice to be lighter and purer, and with more ring, to match his head voice. He then makes minute changes in muscles to access the same tone in head voice. Just the smallest error and you would hear either a) a heaviness in the lower notes compared to the high notes, b) a crack in his voice as he misses the shift to head voice, c) an error in pitch as he jumps up and down between registers. The other brilliant thing he demonstrates is his ability to continue in chest voice PAST the passaggio for the bridge section at the end ("My game has only just BEGUN"). That's what singers do when they "belt" a note. It usually sounds pushed or strained, powerful but not refined. Not Adam. The power is there, but he retains the brilliance and ring in the tone, so that it still matches the gentler voice at the beginning. It is masterfully sung. It is very different from Freddie's version. In Freddie's studio version, he shifts from chest to falsetto. The falsetto notes have a naturally breathy quality to them. To match that, he actually adds a little breathiness to his chest voice. In the live versions I found, instead of shifting to falsetto, Freddie belts out the high notes, and changes the melody line to skip the high C note on "everybody play the GAME". Before someone jumps on me for appearing to criticize Freddie...... WHOA. I am pointing out differences, not making judgments on which is "better." Freddie's sound is rock, while Adam's is classical. Which you prefer is a matter of taste. In terms of difficulty of technique, Adam's is adamazing.
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Post by houselady on May 29, 2016 11:08:33 GMT -5
twitter.com/PattiHum/status/736927636954316801?ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwQUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT (UK) For only the fourth time in 40 years, a Danish audience the chance to experience the world hits like 'Bohemian Rhapsody', 'We Will Rock You' and 'The Show Must Go On' life when Queen + Adam Lambert guests Jelling Music Festival on Sunday. 29 . May 2016. Over the past years, the legendary British rock band Queen in the degree managed to reaktualisere itself through cooperation with the virtuoso American singer Adam Lambert. Now Queen + Adam Lambert ready to visit the Jelling Music Festival in May 2016. Queen + Adam Lambert first appeared together in 2009 in connection with Adam Lambert's appearance in the finals on American Idol. The chemistry between the young singer and the two experienced Queen members were so good that in 2014 went on a sold out US tour where they performed classics like 'Another One Bites The Dust', Crazy Little Thing Called Love 'and' radio Gaga '. At the beginning of 2015, pulled the band full arenas in Europe and in September this year was Queen + Adam Lambert headlining the giant music festival 'Rock In Rio' in Brazil - and the band's concerts have received great enthusiasm among audiences and critics worldwide. Rock History's strongest back catalog 40 years ago, Queen their big break with the song 'Bohemian Rhapsody' and throughout the period up to the charismatic lead singer Freddie Mercury's death in 1991, released the band one rock classic after another, and sold 100 million albums, but interest in the band's music is still massive. Queen's music is today among the most downloaded on the music service iTunes - every three hustand in Britain owns the band's 'Greatest Hits' album and songs like 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are The Champions' is the most played for sporting events Worldwide. Therefore, it is one of rock history's strongest and most durable song catalogs that can be experienced at Jelling Music Festival on Sunday. May 29, 2016. The only concert in Denmark "We are very proud to have secured one of the largest and most legendary bands in rock history as Queen + Adam Lambert. I t is one of the biggest, if not the largest, we have presented at the festival in its 28-year life. At Queen + Adam Lambert has played sold out concerts and festivals around the world in 2015, clearly showing that we grab a world name. Queen's music transcends generations and it is very hard to think of other artists who have so many great songs that can unify an entire festival site. It is simply a magical concert, "says the festival's book Lars" Charlie "Mortensen. The more than 30,000 audiences at Jelling Music Festival is the only company in Denmark who get the chance to experience the British rock legends. It is Queen + Adam Lambert's only Danish concert in 2016 and the concert at Jelling Music Festival is only Queens third Danish concert. The first time was in 1978 and second time in 2014, when Queen + Adam Lambert played for a packed Jyske Bank Boxen in Herning, where the concert was sold out within hours. About Adam Lambert: With the debut album For Your Entertainment, Adam Lambert a Grammy Award nomination in the category 'Best Male Pop Vocal Performance' and a world hit with the song 'Whataya Want From Me'. His second album, Trespassing, went straight to # 1 on the Billboard charts. In 2013 he appeared as a guest star in the popular American TV series GLEE and Avicii's album 'True'. When Adam Lambert in the summer issued its long-awaited third album, The Original High, went in as # 3 on the global music charts and sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide. The single 'Ghost Town' is streamed more than 100 million times, and the video has been seen 37 million times. Adam Lambert has just released his brand new single, Another Lonely Night. See Queen + Adam Lambert forward 'Bohemian Rhapsody' from Rock In Rio here translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=da&u=http://www.jellingmusikfestival.dk/&prev=search
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Post by houselady on May 29, 2016 11:17:08 GMT -5
Uploaded today. At 2:08 you can see Adam balance the umbrella on his back so he can signal the sound guy. Also includes Adam talking to the audience after Under Pressure. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyjaBIWJSn4
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Post by Jablea on May 29, 2016 11:20:56 GMT -5
Bamafan, thanks for your comparison of Play the Game and Lap of the Gods. I enjoyed the perspective.
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Post by freakydeaky on May 29, 2016 11:31:28 GMT -5
Play the Game has become one of my fav songs on this tour....kinda like Lap of the Gods was last tour. Similar placement...similar vibe. I love them both. Same videographer in Barcelona and Cologne....PTG LOTGs from 2015. I loved that look...outfit and hair. And those painted jeans are much more than top 10 pants....they're Number 1 in my book! I'm in complete agreement, Bama, I loved Lap of the Gods, and now can't get Play the Game out of my head...And yes, those pants!
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Post by freakydeaky on May 29, 2016 11:34:12 GMT -5
I think this may have been posted before, but skaschep you can be seen being touched by Adam in this video of Radio Gaga. You can be sen from about 2.53 on before he comes to you...And you're in all the papers! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU4YFzoXlOw
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Post by bamafan on May 29, 2016 11:38:26 GMT -5
Jablea....Freaky..... cassie....love when you talk "voice".
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Post by bamafan on May 29, 2016 11:42:26 GMT -5
This is often a downside to these big setups....the stage is really high and/or the moat is really wide
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