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Ancient Mariner
Bruce performance from 9:22 to 9:33 is out of this world.
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God yes.Yes I think I heard some Nomad/Beckett-ish stuff going on.
HAHa .. good one !Nomad on Steroids!
It's quite funny actually. Maiden have stolen stuff from other bands before, as well as self-plagiarism. However this has to be the first time they do both at once. I find it amusing.God yes.
No it's not note for note, but I didn't want to point that out because that's not as funny.Well, it's not note-for-note similar like Nomad, but it's definitely reminiscent in sound if not structure too. All being said, I like Nomad's instrumental (and the instrumental part of the original) a lot, and Parchment is so far my No3 song on this album.
This part (''meet me there'') is one of the best parts in Maiden's history! Bruce sounds more epic than ever.Bruce performance from 9:22 to 9:33 is out of this world.
It seems very difficult to do... bending and then so long afterwards... (I hope it was no studio magic , as if I heard a repeated section, copy pasted, sorry for cursing in the church)Bruce performance from 9:22 to 9:33 is out of this world.
Maybe it was studio magic, but I can tell you from experience that the way the song is set up, with almost solely lower vocals from Bruce, which he’s able to make sound so much more impressive than you’d expect because of his natural charm as a storyteller, imbuing a beautiful cadence into the lines that makes them flow like a river instead of the avalanche they’d be with almost anyone else — because he’s singing low notes throughout the whole song, to lift up into the final line he doesn’t have to go all out. He just takes it up a bit and then hangs on until the end of that section. Because he stretches out the line (“meet... me... theeeeeeeeeeeere!”), he’s able to take some breaths in between before going for it. All it takes to execute this is breath control because it’s such an easy note to hit in the first place, both for me, an amateur, and for Bruce himself. And Bruce has held notes on way longer and more challenging stuff in the past, so this line should come naturally to him.It seems very difficult to do... bending and then so long afterwards... (I hope it was no studio magic , as if I heard a repeated section, copy pasted, sorry for cursing in the church)
I beg to differ, but I think each repetition sounds different. Bruce almost falters after the "HE HE HE" melisma in the first repetition, but then he handles it much better in the next two repetitions. The amount of vibrato on the held note also decreases with each repetition.Listening again to that part and I even estimate it was pasted twice, so you hear three times the same bit, and thereby expanding it all.
Theee - HE HE HE heeeeee HE HE HE heeeeee HE HE HE heeeeee eeee eehh eere
The first "HE HE HE heeeeee" is what was copied.
The 2nd and 3rd HE HE HE heeeeee is what was pasted. It sounds exactly the same.