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'but weren't you out-of-tune?'

  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • 6 hours ago
  • 1 min read

No. Both at Burnside and at NZSM, the real singers listened and said that I wasn't. You can't hear like I can. The main difference is that I'm a jazz singer. I bend notes, I use glissando. I use my voice as an instrument, not just a valved one. Think Michael Jackson or Paul McCartney... Ears are often prejudiced, including mine. You hear what you want to hear. I'd travelled farther and wider than almost all of you: I've heard more. Michael was the same. He'd been everywhere by 14 or 16.

 
 
 

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
6 hours ago

Those Warren/Gordon songs from Sun Valley prove the point. Sang in the lead line, then did the rest part by part. No autotune, no tricks. Built it by listening to myself and improvising an arrangement. George Abud is the same. He's a real classical singer. Taylor Swift also has that type of ear, but she writes out the arrangements first. Yes, really. Yes, she's much better than Salina as a pure musician. Jacob Collier uses studio tricks and built a device to harmonise in microtones automatically.

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
6 hours ago
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Harmony singing involves letting people in. In the pedagogy course, they were all friends, but I barely knew them. You were all too close-minded to sing with me. That's my view.

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