From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V6 #66 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Thursday, August 16 2001 Volume 06 : Number 066 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Four octaves so far ["tom,kelly&jordan" ] Re: Four octaves so far [Leslie Brown ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 17:07:33 -0500 From: "tom,kelly&jordan" Subject: Four octaves so far Hello all, I've been listening to alot of Basia recently to find the highest and lowest notes that she sings. There is a lot of material to cover and it is rather difficult to listen to the pieces armed with a peak pitch mentality. In the Song "Drunk on love" at locater position 3:10 she hits an "E" two octaves above middle C and during the trumpet duet at 4:28 she does it again. That is way the hell up there. Now during my three beer analysis I noted that she does indeed peek even higher than that in the smash hit "Time and tide" at marker 2:58, hitting a remarkable "F#" a whole step above the "E". I dare anybody to to que up that song and try an hit it without going into falsetto. It is very possible the Basia is mimicking the sound of the berimba on the song "From now on" Band mix which is also a high "F" and that same berimba sound can be heard on the early Matt Bianco songs. Hmmmm..... As far as the lowest pitch i am still working on that . This may fall into a grey zone because the song "Give me that" has a very low, male-sounding "Give me that" which I am guessing is her voice running through An "Eventide Harmonizer" or if you will an "evn-rude harmenteaser". The Harmonizer is a pitch based device used to adjust an input signals pitch. You could use it to sound like the Chipmunks or like Darth Vader. I sampled that to my deck to try and pitch-up that male like voice but was unable to finish the task. So i'll keep at it. Tom Update; Olivetree 4:17 Low "E" way low "E". Two E's below middle C. So Basia's voice as far as I can tell is OVER FOUR OCTAVES!! not bad. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 16:35:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Leslie Brown Subject: Re: Four octaves so far > Update; Olivetree 4:17 Low "E" way low "E". Two > E's below middle C. > So Basia's voice as far as I can tell is OVER FOUR > OCTAVES!! not bad. We can thank Tona De Brett for that. :-) I'm completely clueless on the technical end of this, so bear with me, but it seems like I remember reading that originally she sang too high for her true voice? Like she was straining before, and her vocal training changed the way she used her voice so it was more naturally reaching the notes. Something like that. Sheesh, I wish I was better equipped with my sources this time. :-( - --Leslie, 1/2 octave and froglike Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V6 #66 **************************