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Should this be in the market place/events/learning sections?

 
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Philip Banks
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 1:28 am    Post subject: Should this be in the market place/events/learning sections? Reply with quote

Woot awesome doods .... Me and a few fairly camp voices promoting something or another. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3sVIM5M5pU
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 6:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

OK -VOICENERD/ANORAK time

Using musical notes/theory which voice plays the lowest/deepest note?
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 2:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The lowest note I am able to find is 5 octaves below middle C. If we use that as a starting point I believe we could help casting directors get ensemble auditions from agencies.

Take a bright, sparkling female VO, Pam Tierney and add to the copy an Unouncer voice, Doug Turkel. How would that sound? Difficult for people to imagine without guidance so we simply introduce the VO chord.

Play me - A# augmented babe

Want a big league VO to do a monotone read?

Play me - A flat major

Want a V123 VO to do a monotone read?

Play me - A flat minor

Having received 3 on hold announcements you want an additional read that keeps people in a call waiting queue for ever?

Play me - A suspended 4th

We are not Voiceoverists we are the VOX Orchestra.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 1:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very clever, Philip.

-Anthony
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 5:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Of course if we are to truly master Voice Chords, as opposed to vocal chords, then we must both understand the basics and practise them.

As a Voiceoverist whilst you may work alone you must not see yourself out of context. Your note may be C but is it above middle C or below? If we view your note alongside another Voiceoverist whilst you are C the person who sounds the same as you is more successful, so as a minor needs to give way to a major you declare your note and Key signature as A minor because you are the relative minor to C major.

We also need to contextualise your style and path. Playing alongside side your major it could be that they will always get the body copy and you will always get the tags thus making your a A natural minor. Should your gift enable you to compliment the major in the copy then you are a harmonic minor whereas together with the major you may make music in which case you are A melodic minor.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 6:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Philip this brings up something I've been thinking about since Marc Cashman's viral email.

I will admit...I am not musically inclined.
That is to say, I appreciate music, but never took to the Piano lessons my parents tried to push on me as a kid (I do now regret that, but when you're 7 and being taught by an 80 year old...well.... Shocked ...but that's a whole other story Rolls Eyes )...so I never learned to read music nor to recognize Middle C from A Minor.

So where am I in the musical spectrum? How do I find that out?
Is it too late for me to learn...and would it help?
This is of real interest to me.
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Philip Banks
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 8:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Watch the Bill Bailey clips on You tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPpeHIH7HSU ,watch all seven. Buy the book and CD (included) "Music Theory - A Practical Guide For All Musicians" $14.95

It's worth learning an orchestral instrument, ideally a wind instrument as it will exercise both brain and lungs. For you I'd suggest a Flute - Yamaha student (beginner) flutes are great value and sound nice.

If you ignore the humour in this thread and think about the serious side, there is no doubt in my mind that musicians and people with some real musical knowledge make better voiceoverists ..Tis the way of things.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 8:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I agree that musical knowledge is a plus, and have thought about it a lot lately.
OK...I'll look into it!
Thanks! Laugh
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 12:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Play me - half note rest. Gasp
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 6:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just wanted to step in here and say thanks for all who gave of their chords.
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