I wonder if they didn't set up or turn on monitor speakers for her.
Usually vocalists need a monitor facing them to hear the background and themselves. If they wait to sing until the sound the crowd hears reaches their ears, they'll be out of sync with the background, plus it gets hard to hear your own pitch when the sound has to bounce around the venue.
It almost sounds like she couldn't hear the background music and just tried to wing it as best she could until they shut it off.
My understanding is the monitors musicians need end up being a distraction for speakers so normally they aren't set up for speeches.
The music was fine, and she was fine, they were just in entirely different keys. That's the fault of whoever coordinated this performance.
Which key will we be in, said no one?
I just checked the pitches. The music started out in G-sharp, but from the start, she heard it the way she rehearsed it, in F natural.
Those two keys are a minor third apart, and in entirely different families. They clash horribly together! But she's a solid singer and stayed within F natural, which would make the highest notes much easier to reach.
She may have had a recording of it performed in F natural, and practice to that a thousand times. Once you've done that, your vocal chords just know how tight to be.
I wonder if they didn't set up or turn on monitor speakers for her.
Usually vocalists need a monitor facing them to hear the background and themselves. If they wait to sing until the sound the crowd hears reaches their ears, they'll be out of sync with the background, plus it gets hard to hear your own pitch when the sound has to bounce around the venue.
It almost sounds like she couldn't hear the background music and just tried to wing it as best she could until they shut it off.
My understanding is the monitors musicians need end up being a distraction for speakers so normally they aren't set up for speeches.
The music was fine, and she was fine, they were just in entirely different keys. That's the fault of whoever coordinated this performance. Which key will we be in, said no one?
I just checked the pitches. The music started out in G-sharp, but from the start, she heard it the way she rehearsed it, in F natural.
Those two keys are a minor third apart, and in entirely different families. They clash horribly together! But she's a solid singer and stayed within F natural, which would make the highest notes much easier to reach.
She may have had a recording of it performed in F natural, and practice to that a thousand times. Once you've done that, your vocal chords just know how tight to be.