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Post by larryhauck on Jul 31, 2008 14:32:37 GMT
I'm no musicologist; but I think Hayley can hit some extremely high notes. Her voice has matured very well. Also her pronunciation has improved immensely since" PURE".
Her voice has a special quality that I find difficult to define. It's both soothing and flawless.
I think she will develop into one of the best ever, not in any specific category, but just in pure talent.
Larry
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Post by petertong on Jul 22, 2009 9:01:58 GMT
Is it actually true that Hayley isn't singing as high as she used to? That is what drew me to listening to Hayley... those beautiful high notes of hers...
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Post by martindn on Jul 23, 2009 12:28:52 GMT
I think it is true that Hayley went trhough a period of avoiding those high notes, from I think roughly the time of Oddydssey until quite recently. This led some of us to wonder if she had lost some of her range as her voice has matured. Perhaps she has, but not much i think. We have recently heard her hitting some high notes again, perhaps not on record but in live performances. And now, unlike before, she sings them with terrific power.
Have a listen to the way seh sang Amigos Para Siempre on the valemtines tour for example. That final note is mindblowing.
Martin
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Post by nicola on Nov 22, 2009 20:39:55 GMT
She's only 3 semi-tones away from that F6.  What is that high note she sings on 'Dark Waltz'? I have always been mildly disappointed that she never sings it live. Only mildly, because I am too busy being impressed by everything else she does! |
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Post by Dave on Nov 22, 2009 22:45:53 GMT
Hi Nicola, I'll have to look up Hayley's Dark Waltz note when i get a minute... and yes Camilla and Hayley both sing very high... but not as high as Mariah Carey's party piece... her amazing whistle tone. She sung on tonight's X-Factor results show and surprised me by doing it near the end of "I Wanna Know What Love Is". I've just analysed it and... Mariah hit a D#8 (2,534 hertz)... yep, more than two octaves above Camilla Kerslake's high note!  Mariah does of course hold the World record for the highest ever note in recorded music history and it is, IIRC, even higher than that. Dave |
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Post by nicola on Nov 22, 2009 22:51:28 GMT
Some woman achieved a G10. A famous opera singer. I have completely forgotten her name. G10 sounds like screeching, so perhaps that's why Mariah's record is worded as 'music history'.
The whistle register starts at C6, doesn't it?
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Post by martindn on Nov 22, 2009 22:52:56 GMT
I saw that Dave, it was pretty amazing! Not tat I found it particularly enjoyable musically, but it is certainly impressive.
Martin
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Post by BenCMitchell on Nov 22, 2009 23:53:27 GMT
Some woman achieved a G10. A famous opera singer. I have completely forgotten her name. G10 sounds like screeching, so perhaps that's why Mariah's record is worded as 'music history'. The whistle register starts at C6, doesn't it? The singer who reached a G10 was a Brazilian called Georgia Brown, who holds the world record for the highest vocal note. she has a range of G2 - G10. Thats 8 octaves! The whistle register starts around E6, but it can start lower for males. |
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Post by comet on Nov 23, 2009 1:44:59 GMT
Hi Nicola, I'll have to look up Hayley's Dark Waltz note when i get a minute... and yes Camilla and Hayley both sing very high... but not as high as Mariah Carey's party piece... her amazing whistle tone. She sung on tonight's X-Factor results show and surprised me by doing it near the end of "I Wanna Know What Love Is". I've just analysed it and... Mariah hit a D#8 (2,534 hertz)... yep, more than two octaves above Camilla Kerslake's high note! Mariah does of course hold the World record for the highest ever note in recorded music history and it is, IIRC, even higher than that. Dave I get the Hertz or CPS (Cycles Per second) as it used to be . What is IIRC ? I watched Mariah while out visiting the inlaws. as some people used to say about Mariah, why just use one note when you can fit in seven different notes. How irritating.. What are the chances a frequency shifter is being used, or by speeding up a recording the frequencies increase, Chipmunk effect. can't be done live I would love to know Hayley's current range in Hz. Oh and Ben , off the cuff have a look at Greg Lake of Emerson, Lake & Palmer. He had a fairly good range. an album called Trilogy would be a good place to start. If you want some real freq toppers try the Castratti. |
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Post by mihizawi on Apr 5, 2010 13:07:28 GMT
Yesterday I was talking with a friend of mine who is having singing lessons as a tenor. He is very impressed by Hayley, and I hope I can make him jjoin this forum soon... While listening to Ave Maria from River of Dreams, he said that the highest note on that song was a B5, certainly not the D#6 or E6 mentioned here, but she sings it with such power! Just for comparison, the same note by Chloë on Celtic Woman is "only" a G5...
Hmm... I have the impression that Winter Magic doesn't have such a wide range... I wonder what she will do in her new album.
Michal
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Post by stevemacdonald on Apr 5, 2010 20:24:48 GMT
Heh, all these answers so far are in terms of vocal pitch. Let me try another approach...
In the states a 100 dollar bill would be many people's highest note and perhaps Hayley has had occasion to posssess one. It's also entirely possible that she wrote someone a brief letter whilst aboard an airplane, and that too could qualify as her highest note.
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Post by Libby on Apr 6, 2010 5:42:35 GMT
Michal, most Christmas songs don't really have a wide range, and are fairly simple to sing. As long as she sounds beautiful, I'm not worried about how high or how low she goes. And she always sounds beautiful. I think she'll do more on her new album, though, but nobody knows for sure, except Hayley. She should be recording soon, going by that tweet of hers almost a month ago.
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Post by martindn on Apr 6, 2010 18:33:59 GMT
The problem with trying to work this out from recordings is that voices can and do change. There are some pretty high notes in "Love Love Love", on HSJS2, and on Pure too. Also O Mio Babbino Caro (Odyssey).
And I agree Michal, the power she can put into her high notes is awesome. We have a vid of "Amigos Para Siempre" from her Valentines Tour lyig about somewhere (I'd look if I had time, but dinner is calling (actualy it is Sue)), the final note of which is incredible. A few months before when she performed the same song, also with Jonathan Ansell, at the Palladium she ducked out of that note.
Martin D
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Post by Libby on Apr 8, 2010 3:49:12 GMT
The problem with trying to work this out from recordings is that voices can and do change. There are some pretty high notes in "Love Love Love", on HSJS2, and on Pure too. Also O Mio Babbino Caro (Odyssey). And I agree Michal, the power she can put into her high notes is awesome. We have a vid of "Amigos Para Siempre" from her Valentines Tour lyig about somewhere (I'd look if I had time, but dinner is calling (actualy it is Sue)), the final note of which is incredible. A few months before when she performed the same song, also with Jonathan Ansell, at the Palladium she ducked out of that note. She is obviously still capable of hitting really high notes, but she probably doesn't want to do the extra high notes on a regular basis. I suppose it's the same reason I have never heard her hit that high note at the end of Amazing Grace the way she did on the album Pure. I was disappointed the first time I heard her sing it live (on that Katarina Witt Figure skating program several years ago). Martin, are you saying you're having Sue for dinner?!  |
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Post by martindn on Apr 8, 2010 19:18:29 GMT
Martin, are you saying you're having Sue for dinner?! In the sense that we sometimes "have friends (round) for dinner", yes!  And it is about to happen again tonight. Sorry this is OT Martin D |
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