Then you obviously never watched Freddie play piano. His theatrics as minimal as they could be, he only turned on the theatrics when singing without playing a piano and had the mic in his hand. So Marc's ability to theatrics as far as how Freddie played piano are almost identical.
@brandon shippee In this interviews he says the opposite... that the comparaisons started only after that he studied Queens music: www.timesfreepress.com/news/life/entertainment/story/2016/nov/20/qmarc-martel-freddie-soundavocalist/398379/ "In the early 2000's when my friend Glenn Lavender - Downhere's bass player - knowing that I'm a natural mimic, suggested I investigate Queen's music"..."It was around that time that I began getting regular comparisons to Freddie. It became a joke pretty quick"
@@apokab6453 Maybe it's Marc's talent as a mimic that it didn't take much of listening to Queen to "unlock" that voice and kick off the comparisons. (Marc pushed himself to sing with a "false" baritone sound - Eddie Vedder - on early Downhere recordings, which was a bit more difficult, since he's a tenor.) Singing in that tenor voice is when the Freddie comparisons shortly started afterwards. I'm trying to find the interview where Marc admits that he didn't really know much beyond Queen's Greatest Hits before auditioning, and did more of a study then.
You were kinda right but also kinda wrong, Marc actually got told that he sounds like Freddie during concerts with his band around 15 years ago before he really knew who Freddie was and what he sounded like, only THEN did he do his research.
Not really. Read this interview, he says that the comparaisons started only after that he studied Queens music: www.timesfreepress.com/news/life/entertainment/story/2016/nov/20/qmarc-martel-freddie-soundavocalist/398379/ "In the early 2000's when my friend Glenn Lavender - Downhere's bass player - knowing that I'm a natural mimic, suggested I investigate Queen's music"..."It was around that time that I began getting regular comparisons to Freddie. It became a joke pretty quick"
@@apokab6453 There's "being aware of Queen" and subconsciously picking up some of the "Freddie" subtleties, and doing a deeper study (which happened after getting multiple comparisons.) Marc explains this in the Radio New Zealand interview: th-cam.com/video/IKU5hDNNFic/w-d-xo.html
@@ThatllShowEm Marc started investigating Queen and Freddie after the constant comparisons, I believe he _really_ started his research only when Roger hired him to lead QE. Prior to that he only knew the songs.
apokab you said it yourself, “REGULAR” Before the “regular” thing, there’s these few person that kept telling him about sounding alike Freddie. You will hear this in 1 of his interviews. Even Marc admitted that from these “few” people, there’s this 1 person that kept going to their concerts just to tell him about Freddie.
@@QueenCelebrationLive That's sort of what I think Marc has said. He didn't really "study" Freddie until he started learning all of the songs for the Queen Extravaganza tour.
Marc's earliest influences were Keith Green, Jeff Buckley and George Michael. As his professional career began he tried to incorporate some Eddie Vedder to sound more "manly." People were telling him for three years he sounded like Mercury before he looked into him.
Yes exactly. This guy says we're wrong and Marc always studied Freddy. EL WRONGO buddy. Marc studied Freddy AFTER so many fans told him he sounded like him. And only after many requests from his fans that he started including a few Queen's songs in his shows. It all snowballed after that.
M Pate He could but he isn't an asshole, and it's kind of odd you would ever think about it. His videos are protected under fair use but the state the copyright system is... its fucked.
Mike C To be fair, I don’t think an obsession with Marc Martel is necessarily unhealthy. The man is truly astonishing, especially considering his lack of professional training. The ubiquity of terrible singers that are super popular narrows the field of great talent for vocal coach analysis, I’d imagine. Plus, Marc is a super nice, humble guy and is consistently, 100%, slam-dunk, wonderful to hear sing. Just my humble opinion, sir. 😊
Good explanation of how singing may be learned. Marc's greatest gift is how well he picks up subtlety and nuance in vocalizations and is quickly able to add them into his vocal tool box.
but that make sense, did you think make a movie using a short amount of time? i don't think so, it even a year but before you make the movie and the cast must studies the script first... that my point of view
YES! I'm happy to hear that I'm not the only one who heard a little bit of Freddie in George Michael's work. I think GM is soooooo underrated as a singer. When he died I listened to everything I could find and he not only had a naturally beautiful voice but he kept working at it. He wasn't taken seriously enough -- he sang, wrote, arranged and produced his songs. Was he not taken seriously because he was so pretty? (Freddie was pretty too though ...)
9:05 - It's not about trying to over power different sounds. It absolutely isn't about getting on top of a mix, it's about using tone to cut THROUGH a mix. It actually has very little to do with volume. It's about creating a sound that can be noticable and distinct in a mix of different sounds.
7:15 I disagree, his natural voice was identical to Freddie’s anyway, people noticed and he obviously already knew Freddie since he’s so famous and so Marc just say watched videos on Freddie and picked up on how he sings, etc but I highly doubt he studied Freddie and tried to copy him, it’s natural in my opinion
it started as 100% natural, apparently a mixture of Buckley and Michael's influences. This video is on Queen's channel because they wanted him to share what he was learning in preparation for recording for the Bohemian Rhapsody movie.
i hate when people say that marc is an imitator in a negative way because it's genetics and it isn't something you can control so it just so happens that his voice already sounded similar to freddie's which can actually be visibly seen in how he also already looks similar too freddie as well with how his body is structured, especially in his face.
8:47 - "But that's the reason why you have microphones." - Marc is actually talking about the singer being able to hear HIMSELF over the other sounds on stage, which is something a microphone won't help with. 15:08 - You did fine. That actually does kind of work, at least for you. You did sound more like Freddie by doing that. Now, if you'd just shave off everything but the moustache. Hmmm... :) 15:28 - It sounds like it makes you push the air directly out through your mouth rather than letting it echo through your sinus cavities on the way out of your nose.
@@benderong4478 There were no such things as in ear monitors when Freddie Mercury sang and that is what Marc was referring to (rock singers in the seventies )
@@joldut403 There were no in ear monitors back then And if you've ever played in a band. You know that the stage monitors are shit and you can never hear yourself well over the rest of the noise. You don't get the same mix as the audience does unfortunately.
I realize that the way Freddie used to sing, he almost never used to hit a note same time, sometimes he used to kind of swing it and put the two words together, like in the lines in the song bohemian rhapsody which says " didn't mean to make you ", "I don't wanna " and "Carry " .
Can you do a video on Ella Henderson? Her vocals are terrifyingly amazing, to the point it makes me think if I’ll ever have what it takes! You would love her!
Marc was being told he sounds like freddy before he tired sounding like freddy...so no VC it wasnt intentional it was later on with the QE tribute band Roger Taylor put together
Not only did he probably do his own research, but where it was actually the members of Queen that chose him for the Extravaganza, they probably sat down with him and went over a lot of Freddie's history and techniques etc...
Actually, this video was created just before Marc went to Abbey Road London to record for the movie. So, his research was for actually voice double in the movie.
This man could record his own music WITHOUT auto tune...that is the factor of a real singer. Not the losers you hear nowadays. I almost feel embarrassed for some people nowadays when I hear them try to sing outside of the studio or on stage.
Loved your explanation of a “natural born singer”...it’s much like a “natural born musician” - someone who cannot necessarily read music but can okay what they hear.
Marc can explain some of these nuances _now_ that he has studied Freddie's voice. Singing Queen for about 7 years now has given Marc a lot of time to pick up on more of these nuances that he explains in this video. He's actually admitted that he really had only listened to a few Queen songs (maybe the Greatest Hits album) before his Somebody to Love audition. So any deeper analysis happened more (relatively) recently, rather than prior to touring with the Queen Extravaganza tribute band. Some of the "Freddie" nuances are present in his recordings with his band Downhere, but IMO they do seem a bit more ingrained into his singing now than before, if that makes any sense. (Thinking of his video performance of O Holy Night, which was recorded after a few years of touring with the Queen Extravaganza, as opposed to any Downhere albums.) This video was also posted right before Marc started recording for the Bohemian Rhapsody film, so it's likely that he purposely analyzed the differences in Freddie's voice over the years in order to prepare for the film. Edit: Marc mentions "being aware of Queen" and picking up some of the nuances early in his singing career, and then learning the music for the Queen Extravaganza tribute band and picking up more of those micro intonations after his Somebody to Love audition in this radio interview: th-cam.com/video/IKU5hDNNFic/w-d-xo.html
That video was published in October 2016, and Marc said that he got the first call about the movie in December 2016 so it was definitely not a research for the film.
@@apokab6453 The film has been in production development for 10 years. You don't think that maybe they'd had unofficial conversations before that phone call? (Speaking of "unofficial" conversations, pretty sure that the actor Marc mentioned is SBC, btw.)
@@ThatllShowEm Of course everything is possible, and I can easily imagine that was dreaming of getting involved in the production already before the first call, but only what he says in his post can be taken as certain, all the rest is just guessing. Regarding the 10 years, yes I know, that is why I always find it funny when some people say it could not have been made without him.
@@ThatllShowEm I hope you do not seriously think that he movie could not have been made if they hadn't had Marc. A few scenes would be slightly different, that is all, but non of the songs that are mostly Marc are essential in the story line, and certainly could be done differently. Not to mention that when the producer talked about Marc, I think they though that Marc's vocals would be used more (also for Live Aid), so he seemed more important than how it turned out in the final cut.
After listening to Marc for years I had some conclusions about this. Marc's voice is not naturally like Freddie's, but it is apt to be similar. See Marc's voice (43) th-cam.com/video/NPRgSxC8gB4/w-d-xo.html now Freddie's (41) th-cam.com/video/S5UVkxp6SS8/w-d-xo.html Analyzing their voices, Freddie has a more severe vibration in the nasal area generating a dry and loud sound, while Marc's voice makes a different way, having a less deep and lighter voice, which is called posterior resonance, causing this rounded sound, unlike Freddie. Basically this means that the larynx and cranial formation of the two have no pratical similarities, they are definitely different apparatus vocals. However, Freddie's vocal style fits well in Marc's voice making him sound like, and he knows how to use that very well, he's a talented guy, but when he's not singing Queen or just talking it doesn't sound like that, see th-cam.com/video/-Xyl9lKYXIQ/w-d-xo.html if you think this sounds like Freddie or you are deaf or just don't know his voice. There is still a lot to say on this subject, but I don't want to make this comment so long
I really like Marc Martel too. I want to suggest another singer. Avi Kaplan, I learned about him, because of the Pentatonix. He used to sing with them. My son was on the tour with them last year and I research the group on TH-cam, although, he didn't sing with them last year, he was with them for a least five years and is on his own now. He has a really unique voice. Also, Marc Martel sang some Keith Green songs. earlier that he put on TH-cam. Marc has a natural ability to sing what he hears.
Nasal resonance , that's what he's talking about with the plugging his nose lol Dropping the soft pallet , ya know ?? Gives you that "bleh , I have a cold" sound . It's useful in belting and rock !
ok. then help me out here. I use to sing a lot of high pitched songs(ex: stairway to heaven, she's gone, just to name a few) when I was younger. By the time puberty hit and my voice got deeper, I understood that I probably won't be able to get that high pitch ever again. So is there a way to get pass that barrier without using my neck? I've always tried to sing with my diaphragm but hitting those high notes aren't easy for someone like me a 16 year old deep voiced asian....
I think he was more about support with the diaphragm - it's not quite the same as breathing with the diaphragm, which just adds more speed to breathing and space. Support stabilises(also pitch) and relaxes the throat, chest as well. And when You tried that nose block, he intentionally sings small, to front teeth so the sound is metallic. You sounded like You keeping it backwards or limiting.... marc projects it as he wanted to destroy glass in front of him.
Marc may be a sound-alike, but he's not half as good a vocalist as Freddie. Most people can't sing Queen's whole catalog because it falls in such a wide range or both key and tone for the lead vocals. Marc sings certain Queen songs, the ones he's good at. He may not be able to sing Cool Cat, or at least, not as well as he can the songs he does.
Kayla Cohn I just watched him sing the Prophets Song live and after I picked my jaw up off the ground I made the realization that Marc can indeed sing anything Freddie sang. Google Him singing that song live.
I understand if you get too much in "natural Born Singer", you will get your voice to "natural born Killer". Thx for this nice lessons! I think about a vocal Coach.
On your introduction to your youtube channel you always say your a voice coach and a singer. Give us a link to to you singing or concert and where did you graduate?
Hi Adam, I've watched your videos so far and I love the way you react to songs. Also I am so impressed with your knowledge and passion so far. Today I want to introduce you a very talented vocal team called Forestella, and how they covered another queen's song 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. th-cam.com/video/nxUASv1Z2TU/w-d-xo.html The impressive point is that this team covered this song in crossover way which is a combination of opera and rock. They created wonderful harmony to cover this song, and I think you might be interested in a way how they designed the harmony. Please give this song a try and I strongly hope you to enjoy.
The celebrity that Marc talked with was Rami Malek, Marc did post audio for Rami for the movie. Marc did a lot of vocal work for the movie. P.S. Freddie was an avid smoker, so age that a decade for a harmonic singer he was.
Does Marc Martel say that he hasn't studied how to sing? It's hard to believe... I sang with an amateur choir in my town. No one taught me how to sing. I learnt how to use my diaphragm by myself. Marc Martel has a wonderful technique.... So, let me doubt. And, obviously, he must be very grateful to the genetics... He was born with a face very similar to Freddie's. So, he sounds very similar. Lucky man.
@@CookieFXTM12 Freddie didn't always sound like Freddie either. My son only knows Queen songs of the eighties. When he heard an old song of Queen (1973) he couldn't believe it was Freddie. Totally different voice.
Adam! C'mon! It's called musicality and naturally attuned pitch, not a natural born singer. I guess you can call it that, but it doesn't explain why "natural singers" are so good. The reason Martel is good is because he naturally has an impeccable pitch only perfected by his studies of music, hence, his phenomenal musicality and sensibility of a wide variety of styles. It's nature and nurture together. As an example of where nature is strong but nurture is limited, listen to Adam Lambert who has the ability but lacks sensibility. It is natural for us, humans, to imitate. We imitate our parents and those we admire in hopes to improve out skills in one way or another. That said, we all can try and imitate Freddie and none of us will get even close to Martel because we don't have the natural tone that sounds so similar to Freddie's without any effort. Marc always says that no matter how much he tries to sound different from Freddie, he sounds even more like him with this extra effort. He also says that he refuses to imitate Freddie, impersonate him. He is a sound-alike. Why people seem so worked up about it? After all, George Michael sounded like Freddie, Bruno Mars sounds like Michael Jackson, and Sinatra sounded like Mel Tormé. Marc had people come up to him saying that he sounds like Freddie when Marc still had no idea who Freddie was. Yes, waking up without knowing. He jokes saying that he had to investigate who was this Freddie who "made him sound so unoriginal." That's when Marc started listening to Queen more in depth. Later, Marc had to study Freddie's singing style for the biopic because he recorded pretty much the entire thing. So, yes, he studied. Does he sit down at the piano and think, "I am going to give them the best Freddie they ever heard." NO!! He just sits down, plays and sings. Are the influences going to creep in? Sure. What matter is that Freddie deserves a professional musician with an incredible sensibility for Queen's music to cover Freddie's songs. That is what Martel does. To me he still sounds like Marc, but to a less attuned ear, he sounds very similar to Freddie mostly because he punctuates the vowels the same way Freddie did and has a very similar vibrato and usage of his ventricular folds. Having said that, go listen to his original work. YES, HE WRITES HIS OWN SONGS. He sounds like Freddie regardless, just from different periods in F's career. Martel is a beast of a vocalist. Anyone who thinks it is easy to do what he does I dare to challenge Marc. Good luck.
@AKOM 20 Speaking the truth is not "Adam Bashing." The mere fact you think you have to protect Adam and mansplain for him every time someone mentions him going off key, or disconnecting the music from the lyrics, is insulting and condescending to the very person you seem to be enamored with.
AKOM 20 Ellie, you need to know the difference between bashing and criticizing. I said absolutely nothing about Adam that is untrue. Also, I have never “bashed” Adam on QAL page. I left one comment on James Corden’s video where he sings with Q+AL and it said that James would make a better frontman, which he certainly would being a very good singer and a very clever performer. You would not catch me listening to Adam with Smile simply because I don’t enjoy it. My ears wilt. So, nice try. My opinion shouldn’t be any of your concern. You certainly are not going to change it by guilt-tripping me into submission. And BTW I don’t accuse anyone of anything. I find it ironic you should be bringing it up in leu of what your comment states. LOL
Maybe, mark is Freddie's long lost brother! In all seriousness, i think being a natural born singer is best. Just to have that natural ability, priceless.
I think the hold the nose sound has something to do with the fact that Mercury's vocal vibrato frequency was higher than the normal human. Studies have shown that his virbrato frequency was up in the 7.04 range where most people are around 5.5. I believe that helps make that sound. His genetics played a huge role in the out of this world sounds that came through his mouth. Here are some great studies into Mercury's vocals. th-cam.com/video/p3MjsrMNCbU/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/HiL6ypD4Ck0/w-d-xo.html
jealous much? almost every comment is an attempt to "one up" the guy. so annoying. he already said he's not a vocal coach but you react as if he's trying deliberately offer bad advice. He was really just explaining how he does it the best he can. He can sing without needing someone like yourself....ouch
I’m like a half born natural singer? I can listen to songs and about half of them I can just sing and it’s perfect but other times I have to take a little bit of time to figure out
this will sound like a stupid question. sorry. if an excellent singer like Marc sounds just like a more famous singer without having to embellish anything in his voice, we know its not an "imitation." warning. stupid part ahead. is there a term for that? you sound like him intentionally. that's an imitation. you sound like him naturally. thats a _______?
@Rob G Your comment tells more about your lack of sense of reality and lack of fair judgement than about me. (Or about your lack of honesty, only you know that)... I have seen his comments, he is rude, vulgar, disrespectful and hates everyone who dares to sing „Freddies songs” whom he regards a god. It would be interesting to know which comments of mine were extreme enough to remind me of that guy. Could you quote, please? Babooshka00 is right, actually- Although I am not a fan, I have no problem with Marc or with his singing, I think he has a great voice, and he is an excellent singer. I do not even mind if he studies Freddie to sound more like him, nothing is wrong with that. My comments are simply responses to the ignorant, false comments that some of his fans make, either about Marc himself or about Brian, Roger and Adam.
Marc actually describes singing on stage correctly. When you say the microphone is to amplify, really shows me that you have never toured with a Rock Show. The acts on the road hardly ever have their own stage audio person and many times the vocal mix in the monitors happens on your first song of the night. So hearing yourself really becomes a matter of your vocal cutting through the mix. This of course was worse in the 70s and wll into the eighties. The monitor systems alone have changed immensely. So, sorry after that little section it's hard to take anything you say as nothing more than just talking. Maybe you should do less talking and little more listening.
Well I'm a natural born singer and I still watch your videos...i started singing very young and I still do to this day at 19 years old but I watch your videos cause I love to see how you break down explain the ways of the voice👌
Would I be considered a naturally born singer if I went from horrible to something pretty impressive in 4 months? I think that might qualify but I would like to know!!
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Vocal coach reacts to a video in which Marc says "I'm not a vocal coach, but...". Haha, that should be fun. 😀
I find it funny how u guys are loving Adams videos ! You guys should collaberate with him !
Marc need to improve his theatrical ability in the show
Then you obviously never watched Freddie play piano. His theatrics as minimal as they could be, he only turned on the theatrics when singing without playing a piano and had the mic in his hand. So Marc's ability to theatrics as far as how Freddie played piano are almost identical.
Marc actually did sound like Freddie before he knew who Freddie was. He has interviews where he explained it. Keep up the good work!
Couple of those interviews are here:
th-cam.com/video/ebzRebvx700/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/EHO8ECdo0ec/w-d-xo.html
@brandon shippee
In this interviews he says the opposite... that the comparaisons started only after that he studied Queens music: www.timesfreepress.com/news/life/entertainment/story/2016/nov/20/qmarc-martel-freddie-soundavocalist/398379/ "In the early 2000's when my friend Glenn Lavender - Downhere's bass player - knowing that I'm a natural mimic, suggested I investigate Queen's music"..."It was around that time that I began getting regular comparisons to Freddie. It became a joke pretty quick"
@@apokab6453 Maybe it's Marc's talent as a mimic that it didn't take much of listening to Queen to "unlock" that voice and kick off the comparisons. (Marc pushed himself to sing with a "false" baritone sound - Eddie Vedder - on early Downhere recordings, which was a bit more difficult, since he's a tenor.) Singing in that tenor voice is when the Freddie comparisons shortly started afterwards.
I'm trying to find the interview where Marc admits that he didn't really know much beyond Queen's Greatest Hits before auditioning, and did more of a study then.
@@apokab6453 Ah, he mentions it in that same Radio New Zealand interview.
th-cam.com/video/IKU5hDNNFic/w-d-xo.html
You were kinda right but also kinda wrong, Marc actually got told that he sounds like Freddie during concerts with his band around 15 years ago before he really knew who Freddie was and what he sounded like, only THEN did he do his research.
Not really. Read this interview, he says that the comparaisons started only after that he studied Queens music: www.timesfreepress.com/news/life/entertainment/story/2016/nov/20/qmarc-martel-freddie-soundavocalist/398379/ "In the early 2000's when my friend Glenn Lavender - Downhere's bass player - knowing that I'm a natural mimic, suggested I investigate Queen's music"..."It was around that time that I began getting regular comparisons to Freddie. It became a joke pretty quick"
@@apokab6453 There's "being aware of Queen" and subconsciously picking up some of the "Freddie" subtleties, and doing a deeper study (which happened after getting multiple comparisons.)
Marc explains this in the Radio New Zealand interview: th-cam.com/video/IKU5hDNNFic/w-d-xo.html
@@ThatllShowEm Marc started investigating Queen and Freddie after the constant comparisons, I believe he _really_ started his research only when Roger hired him to lead QE. Prior to that he only knew the songs.
apokab you said it yourself, “REGULAR”
Before the “regular” thing, there’s these few person that kept telling him about sounding alike Freddie. You will hear this in 1 of his interviews. Even Marc admitted that from these “few” people, there’s this 1 person that kept going to their concerts just to tell him about Freddie.
@@QueenCelebrationLive That's sort of what I think Marc has said. He didn't really "study" Freddie until he started learning all of the songs for the Queen Extravaganza tour.
Marc's earliest influences were Keith Green, Jeff Buckley and George Michael. As his professional career began he tried to incorporate some Eddie Vedder to sound more "manly." People were telling him for three years he sounded like Mercury before he looked into him.
Yes exactly. This guy says we're wrong and Marc always studied Freddy. EL WRONGO buddy. Marc studied Freddy AFTER so many fans told him he sounded like him. And only after many requests from his fans that he started including a few Queen's songs in his shows. It all snowballed after that.
rivieracar1992 I know who you're referring and that dude has some weird grudge against Marc. I see him on all of Adam's Marc videos.
I think Adam has developed a somewhat unhealthy obsession with Marc Martel.
Yeah it’s probably all the views😂😂 Marc could easily copyright strike every one of these
M Pate
He could but he isn't an asshole, and it's kind of odd you would ever think about it. His videos are protected under fair use but the state the copyright system is... its fucked.
I have also developed an obsession with Marc Martel....he's so amazing!
@@TheValwood Me too...
I LOVE Marc 💖🎤 He seems very sweet.
Mike C To be fair, I don’t think an obsession with Marc Martel is necessarily unhealthy. The man is truly astonishing, especially considering his lack of professional training. The ubiquity of terrible singers that are super popular narrows the field of great talent for vocal coach analysis, I’d imagine. Plus, Marc is a super nice, humble guy and is consistently, 100%, slam-dunk, wonderful to hear sing. Just my humble opinion, sir. 😊
Good explanation of how singing may be learned. Marc's greatest gift is how well he picks up subtlety and nuance in vocalizations and is quickly able to add them into his vocal tool box.
1:09 "it's genetic, thank you mom and dad" -- Adam smiling, who is your daddy Marc?
Freddie Mercury
Ann B wow your sense humor is astounding.
@@Storm1313 ikr,i literally ignored him xd
😂😂😂😂ghost sperm
There can be a conspiracy theory of Freddie's secret child
1:16 hmm.. I wonder if that actor was Rami Malek 🤔
Probably Sacha Baron Cohen, who was planning and prepping to play Freddie before Rami was cast
No it wasn't. This video is from years ago.
but that make sense, did you think make a movie using a short amount of time? i don't think so, it even a year but before you make the movie and the cast must studies the script first... that my point of view
YES! I'm happy to hear that I'm not the only one who heard a little bit of Freddie in George Michael's work. I think GM is soooooo underrated as a singer. When he died I listened to everything I could find and he not only had a naturally beautiful voice but he kept working at it. He wasn't taken seriously enough -- he sang, wrote, arranged and produced his songs. Was he not taken seriously because he was so pretty? (Freddie was pretty too though ...)
9:05 - It's not about trying to over power different sounds. It absolutely isn't about getting on top of a mix, it's about using tone to cut THROUGH a mix. It actually has very little to do with volume. It's about creating a sound that can be noticable and distinct in a mix of different sounds.
"How to sing like Freddie Mercury." Be me. -Mark Martel
Marc
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7:15 I disagree, his natural voice was identical to Freddie’s anyway, people noticed and he obviously already knew Freddie since he’s so famous and so Marc just say watched videos on Freddie and picked up on how he sings, etc but I highly doubt he studied Freddie and tried to copy him, it’s natural in my opinion
it started as 100% natural, apparently a mixture of Buckley and Michael's influences. This video is on Queen's channel because they wanted him to share what he was learning in preparation for recording for the Bohemian Rhapsody movie.
This is the realest vocal coach. Everything he says makes sense and he is not overreacting like most of others
This was a great video.. I'd love to see you and Marc sit down and talk about tactical singing, stylistics, technique, etc..
He doesn't really imitate. He naturally has a Freddie's voice. When he sings anything, it sounds like Freddie covering that song.
Marc explained after people kept telling him he sounded like Freddie Marc started listening to the old queen music and became a fan.
i hate when people say that marc is an imitator in a negative way because it's genetics and it isn't something you can control so it just so happens that his voice already sounded similar to freddie's which can actually be visibly seen in how he also already looks similar too freddie as well with how his body is structured, especially in his face.
It's not that he's even born with the ability to imitate I think. I think his legitamite natural voice is just the reincarnation of Freddie
I haven't heard anyone else closes to Freddie then Marc
*than
Gary Mullen sounds like Freddie naturally!
8:47 - "But that's the reason why you have microphones." - Marc is actually talking about the singer being able to hear HIMSELF over the other sounds on stage, which is something a microphone won't help with.
15:08 - You did fine. That actually does kind of work, at least for you. You did sound more like Freddie by doing that. Now, if you'd just shave off everything but the moustache. Hmmm... :)
15:28 - It sounds like it makes you push the air directly out through your mouth rather than letting it echo through your sinus cavities on the way out of your nose.
8:47 he hears himself from a monitor pointed to him
He mentioned in ear headphones as well
@@benderong4478 There were no such things as in ear monitors when Freddie Mercury sang and that is what Marc was referring to (rock singers in the seventies )
@@joldut403
There were no in ear monitors back then
And if you've ever played in a band. You know that the stage monitors are shit and you can never hear yourself well over the rest of the noise.
You don't get the same mix as the audience does unfortunately.
Shortcut, he is blessed by haShem ! His voice is an entire orchestra.
This is one of my favorites of Marc's..thank you for covering this one!.😊
Brightness or twang is what he's describing at 9:39. I'm surprised Adams didn't point that out.
I mean when he says "sharpness ".
Sei bravo Marc ...prosegui!!! Laura👍👍👍❤❤❤
I realize that the way Freddie used to sing, he almost never used to hit a note same time, sometimes he used to kind of swing it and put the two words together, like in the lines in the song bohemian rhapsody which says " didn't mean to make you ", "I don't wanna " and "Carry " .
Can you do a video on Ella Henderson? Her vocals are terrifyingly amazing, to the point it makes me think if I’ll ever have what it takes! You would love her!
Marc was being told he sounds like freddy before he tired sounding like freddy...so no VC it wasnt intentional it was later on with the QE tribute band Roger Taylor put together
Hi, Adam. It's really good to see your videos. Could you react to Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody covered by Forestella? They have outstanding voices!
He sounds like Freddy when he’s speaking normally
Not only did he probably do his own research, but where it was actually the members of Queen that chose him for the Extravaganza, they probably sat down with him and went over a lot of Freddie's history and techniques etc...
Actually, this video was created just before Marc went to Abbey Road London to record for the movie. So, his research was for actually voice double in the movie.
Right. In addition to what i said, what you said is true.
This man could record his own music WITHOUT auto tune...that is the factor of a real singer. Not the losers you hear nowadays. I almost feel embarrassed for some people nowadays when I hear them try to sing outside of the studio or on stage.
15:00 I think he is saying that Freddie has good use of his nasal cavaties, a very forward tonal placement,
Bet
Loved your explanation of a “natural born singer”...it’s much like a “natural born musician” - someone who cannot necessarily read music but can okay what they hear.
Adam , do a Bohemian Rhapsody Cover with Marc Martel !!!
If possible
😂😂😂😂omfg
adam :what???ok ill try
Marc can explain some of these nuances _now_ that he has studied Freddie's voice. Singing Queen for about 7 years now has given Marc a lot of time to pick up on more of these nuances that he explains in this video. He's actually admitted that he really had only listened to a few Queen songs (maybe the Greatest Hits album) before his Somebody to Love audition. So any deeper analysis happened more (relatively) recently, rather than prior to touring with the Queen Extravaganza tribute band. Some of the "Freddie" nuances are present in his recordings with his band Downhere, but IMO they do seem a bit more ingrained into his singing now than before, if that makes any sense. (Thinking of his video performance of O Holy Night, which was recorded after a few years of touring with the Queen Extravaganza, as opposed to any Downhere albums.)
This video was also posted right before Marc started recording for the Bohemian Rhapsody film, so it's likely that he purposely analyzed the differences in Freddie's voice over the years in order to prepare for the film.
Edit: Marc mentions "being aware of Queen" and picking up some of the nuances early in his singing career, and then learning the music for the Queen Extravaganza tribute band and picking up more of those micro intonations after his Somebody to Love audition in this radio interview: th-cam.com/video/IKU5hDNNFic/w-d-xo.html
That video was published in October 2016, and Marc said that he got the first call about the movie in December 2016 so it was definitely not a research for the film.
@@apokab6453 The film has been in production development for 10 years. You don't think that maybe they'd had unofficial conversations before that phone call?
(Speaking of "unofficial" conversations, pretty sure that the actor Marc mentioned is SBC, btw.)
@@ThatllShowEm Of course everything is possible, and I can easily imagine that was dreaming of getting involved in the production already before the first call, but only what he says in his post can be taken as certain, all the rest is just guessing.
Regarding the 10 years, yes I know, that is why I always find it funny when some people say it could not have been made without him.
@@apokab6453 "Some people" include one of the film's producers. Just saying.
@@ThatllShowEm I hope you do not seriously think that he movie could not have been made if they hadn't had Marc. A few scenes would be slightly different, that is all, but non of the songs that are mostly Marc are essential in the story line, and certainly could be done differently.
Not to mention that when the producer talked about Marc, I think they though that Marc's vocals would be used more (also for Live Aid), so he seemed more important than how it turned out in the final cut.
After listening to Marc for years I had some conclusions about this.
Marc's voice is not naturally like Freddie's, but it is apt to be similar. See Marc's voice (43) th-cam.com/video/NPRgSxC8gB4/w-d-xo.html now Freddie's (41) th-cam.com/video/S5UVkxp6SS8/w-d-xo.html Analyzing their voices, Freddie has a more severe vibration in the nasal area generating a dry and loud sound, while Marc's voice makes a different way, having a less deep and lighter voice, which is called posterior resonance, causing this rounded sound, unlike Freddie. Basically this means that the larynx and cranial formation of the two have no pratical similarities, they are definitely different apparatus vocals. However, Freddie's vocal style fits well in Marc's voice making him sound like, and he knows how to use that very well, he's a talented guy, but when he's not singing Queen or just talking it doesn't sound like that, see th-cam.com/video/-Xyl9lKYXIQ/w-d-xo.html if you think this sounds like Freddie or you are deaf or just don't know his voice. There is still a lot to say on this subject, but I don't want to make this comment so long
Again, that last song is sung in the style of the original singers!
@@babooshka7601 You just said what I said, Marc sings in the style of Freddie, he doesn't have a voice like his, like other singers.
I love all the Queen videos I’ve been seeing
You look like Tom Ellis
Feeling the lyrics kinda sounds like advice for the rythm section; feel the groove first and then anything you play will sound on point.
I really like Marc Martel too. I want to suggest another singer. Avi Kaplan, I learned about him, because of the Pentatonix. He used to sing with them. My son was on the tour with them last year and I research the group on TH-cam, although, he didn't sing with them last year, he was with them for a least five years and is on his own now. He has a really unique voice. Also, Marc Martel sang some Keith Green songs. earlier that he put on TH-cam. Marc has a natural ability to sing what he hears.
Nasal resonance , that's what he's talking about with the plugging his nose lol Dropping the soft pallet , ya know ?? Gives you that "bleh , I have a cold" sound . It's useful in belting and rock !
Adam looks like Jon B. I'd be curious to hear your reaction to late RIP Al Jarreau's Roof Garden.
ok. then help me out here. I use to sing a lot of high pitched songs(ex: stairway to heaven, she's gone, just to name a few) when I was younger. By the time puberty hit and my voice got deeper, I understood that I probably won't be able to get that high pitch ever again. So is there a way to get pass that barrier without using my neck? I've always tried to sing with my diaphragm but hitting those high notes aren't easy for someone like me a 16 year old deep voiced asian....
It was beautiful then a freaking ad POPS UP!
I think he was more about support with the diaphragm - it's not quite the same as breathing with the diaphragm, which just adds more speed to breathing and space. Support stabilises(also pitch) and relaxes the throat, chest as well. And when You tried that nose block, he intentionally sings small, to front teeth so the sound is metallic. You sounded like You keeping it backwards or limiting.... marc projects it as he wanted to destroy glass in front of him.
Adam, you're wrong. I can't sing - not even a little bit, but I have huge respect for people who can.
When is Marc going to sing Queen’s “Cool Cat” that song really showed off Freddie’s beautiful falsetto.
Marc may be a sound-alike, but he's not half as good a vocalist as Freddie. Most people can't sing Queen's whole catalog because it falls in such a wide range or both key and tone for the lead vocals. Marc sings certain Queen songs, the ones he's good at. He may not be able to sing Cool Cat, or at least, not as well as he can the songs he does.
Kayla Cohn I just watched him sing the Prophets Song live and after I picked my jaw up off the ground I made the realization that Marc can indeed sing anything Freddie sang. Google Him singing that song live.
I understand if you get too much in "natural Born Singer", you will get your voice to "natural born Killer". Thx for this nice lessons! I think about a vocal Coach.
On your introduction to your youtube channel you always say your a voice coach and a singer. Give us a link to to you singing or concert and where did you graduate?
15:56 um Freddie?
react to his new love of my life cover.
React to his cover of I will always love you, it's amazing
Claudia Bennett' does a great cover of Freddie's OperA ... *love of my life*
NIce Video. Yeah the guy does say push the air out. I am against any kind of pushing.
WTF....I wanna hear Marc do George Michael!
Hi Adam, I've watched your videos so far and I love the way you react to songs. Also I am so impressed with your knowledge and passion so far. Today I want to introduce you a very talented vocal team called Forestella, and how they covered another queen's song 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. th-cam.com/video/nxUASv1Z2TU/w-d-xo.html
The impressive point is that this team covered this song in crossover way which is a combination of opera and rock. They created wonderful harmony to cover this song, and I think you might be interested in a way how they designed the harmony. Please give this song a try and I strongly hope you to enjoy.
please~ you will not regret it!
The celebrity that Marc talked with was Rami Malek, Marc did post audio for Rami for the movie. Marc did a lot of vocal work for the movie.
P.S. Freddie was an avid smoker, so age that a decade for a harmonic singer he was.
This encounter was long before Rami was cast. People theorize that Marc talked with Sacha Baron Cohen who planned to play Freddie initially
You should react to Nothing but Thieves' Vocalist! His range is Absolutely Incredible.
Any chance you could react to Shinedown? I'd recommend listening to, "Second Chance"
Does Marc Martel say that he hasn't studied how to sing? It's hard to believe... I sang with an amateur choir in my town. No one taught me how to sing. I learnt how to use my diaphragm by myself.
Marc Martel has a wonderful technique.... So, let me doubt.
And, obviously, he must be very grateful to the genetics... He was born with a face very similar to Freddie's. So, he sounds very similar.
Lucky man.
his face has nothing to make him sound like Freddie Mercury...
@@CookieFXTM12 Freddie didn't always sound like Freddie either. My son only knows Queen songs of the eighties. When he heard an old song of Queen (1973) he couldn't believe it was Freddie. Totally different voice.
9:00 seconds before natural coach response lol
Adam! C'mon! It's called musicality and naturally attuned pitch, not a natural born singer. I guess you can call it that, but it doesn't explain why "natural singers" are so good. The reason Martel is good is because he naturally has an impeccable pitch only perfected by his studies of music, hence, his phenomenal musicality and sensibility of a wide variety of styles. It's nature and nurture together. As an example of where nature is strong but nurture is limited, listen to Adam Lambert who has the ability but lacks sensibility.
It is natural for us, humans, to imitate. We imitate our parents and those we admire in hopes to improve out skills in one way or another. That said, we all can try and imitate Freddie and none of us will get even close to Martel because we don't have the natural tone that sounds so similar to Freddie's without any effort. Marc always says that no matter how much he tries to sound different from Freddie, he sounds even more like him with this extra effort. He also says that he refuses to imitate Freddie, impersonate him. He is a sound-alike. Why people seem so worked up about it? After all, George Michael sounded like Freddie, Bruno Mars sounds like Michael Jackson, and Sinatra sounded like Mel Tormé.
Marc had people come up to him saying that he sounds like Freddie when Marc still had no idea who Freddie was. Yes, waking up without knowing. He jokes saying that he had to investigate who was this Freddie who "made him sound so unoriginal." That's when Marc started listening to Queen more in depth. Later, Marc had to study Freddie's singing style for the biopic because he recorded pretty much the entire thing. So, yes, he studied. Does he sit down at the piano and think, "I am going to give them the best Freddie they ever heard." NO!! He just sits down, plays and sings. Are the influences going to creep in? Sure. What matter is that Freddie deserves a professional musician with an incredible sensibility for Queen's music to cover Freddie's songs. That is what Martel does. To me he still sounds like Marc, but to a less attuned ear, he sounds very similar to Freddie mostly because he punctuates the vowels the same way Freddie did and has a very similar vibrato and usage of his ventricular folds. Having said that, go listen to his original work. YES, HE WRITES HIS OWN SONGS. He sounds like Freddie regardless, just from different periods in F's career.
Martel is a beast of a vocalist. Anyone who thinks it is easy to do what he does I dare to challenge Marc. Good luck.
@AKOM 20 You don't have to read those comments. There are enough videos of Adam where you can spend all your free time. LOL
@AKOM 20 But of course you have never bashed Marc? LOL
@AKOM 20 Speaking the truth is not "Adam Bashing." The mere fact you think you have to protect Adam and mansplain for him every time someone mentions him going off key, or disconnecting the music from the lyrics, is insulting and condescending to the very person you seem to be enamored with.
AKOM 20
I do. But Lambert is a familiar subject for you Glamberts.
AKOM 20
Ellie, you need to know the difference between bashing and criticizing. I said absolutely nothing about Adam that is untrue. Also, I have never “bashed” Adam on QAL page. I left one comment on James Corden’s video where he sings with Q+AL and it said that James would make a better frontman, which he certainly would being a very good singer and a very clever performer. You would not catch me listening to Adam with Smile simply because I don’t enjoy it. My ears wilt. So, nice try. My opinion shouldn’t be any of your concern. You certainly are not going to change it by guilt-tripping me into submission. And BTW I don’t accuse anyone of anything. I find it ironic you should be bringing it up in leu of what your comment states. LOL
Maybe, mark is Freddie's long lost brother!
In all seriousness, i think being a natural born singer is best. Just to have that natural ability, priceless.
I think the hold the nose sound has something to do with the fact that Mercury's vocal vibrato frequency was higher than the normal human. Studies have shown that his virbrato frequency was up in the 7.04 range where most people are around 5.5. I believe that helps make that sound. His genetics played a huge role in the out of this world sounds that came through his mouth. Here are some great studies into Mercury's vocals.
th-cam.com/video/p3MjsrMNCbU/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/HiL6ypD4Ck0/w-d-xo.html
Anyone else think the nose thing kinda worked lol
Why do I Imagine Marc As Thanos Singing like Freddie?
idk if you only react on known artist but please have a listen to Tor Miller he is great
jealous much? almost every comment is an attempt to "one up" the guy. so annoying. he already said he's not a vocal coach but you react as if he's trying deliberately offer bad advice. He was really just explaining how he does it the best he can. He can sing without needing someone like yourself....ouch
I’m like a half born natural singer? I can listen to songs and about half of them I can just sing and it’s perfect but other times I have to take a little bit of time to figure out
Pause at 13:25 and look at Marc Martel😂
this will sound like a stupid question. sorry. if an excellent singer like Marc sounds just like a more famous singer without having to embellish anything in his voice, we know its not an "imitation."
warning. stupid part ahead. is there a term for that? you sound like him intentionally. that's an imitation. you sound like him naturally. thats a _______?
Anyone tell you that you look like Gabriel from Supernatural?
Sing GING. Sing GER.
Lmao
I think apokab is the new The Great King Rat. Lmfao FOH
You wouldn't expect it, but apokab confessed to me that she/he actually likes Marc's voice! LOL
@Rob G
Your comment tells more about your lack of sense of reality and lack of fair judgement than about me. (Or about your lack of honesty, only you know that)... I have seen his comments, he is rude, vulgar, disrespectful and hates everyone who dares to sing „Freddies songs” whom he regards a god. It would be interesting to know which comments of mine were extreme enough to remind me of that guy. Could you quote, please?
Babooshka00 is right, actually- Although I am not a fan, I have no problem with Marc or with his singing, I think he has a great voice, and he is an excellent singer. I do not even mind if he studies Freddie to sound more like him, nothing is wrong with that.
My comments are simply responses to the ignorant, false comments that some of his fans make, either about Marc himself or about Brian, Roger and Adam.
Marc actually describes singing on stage correctly. When you say the microphone is to amplify, really shows me that you have never toured with a Rock Show. The acts on the road hardly ever have their own stage audio person and many times the vocal mix in the monitors happens on your first song of the night. So hearing yourself really becomes a matter of your vocal cutting through the mix. This of course was worse in the 70s and wll into the eighties. The monitor systems alone have changed immensely. So, sorry after that little section it's hard to take anything you say as nothing more than just talking. Maybe you should do less talking and little more listening.
Sing ger. Sing ging. Srsly wtf am I the only one hearing this 🙄😂
It’s cute tho
I can kind of sound like Freddie but my pubescent 14 year old voice can’t hit and high note I think when this whole puberty thing is done I’ll be good
@Ryan Gaines thats tuff its difrent for everybody lol
hi Adam,. you should see SASSA DAGDAG covers "if i were a boy"
I cannot imagine what if this beast of a guy will take voice lessons on how to use better diafram and not push too much in troath
You might want to check out his channel th-cam.com/users/cramletram When it comes to singing Marc really is a beast. You got that right.
SInce you asked, no. Plugging your nose did not make you sound just like Freddy. Mystery solved!
As a naturally-born singer, I have a hard time imagining not being able to at least partially imitate someone else.
Can you react GILANG DIRGA FROM INDONESIA SINGING BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY AND WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS??? HE SO COOL MAN!!
Its not accidental its just because we have only one Creator we came from.
When a maaaaaan loves a womaaaaan, lol
Isadora Jiménez thus far that’s my favorite cover! 😂
1:16 I Wonder If That's Kanye West????
🤣
Please react to Steelheart Shes gone
MTV unplugged
Was that actor Rami Malek?
Is it si"NG"er or sing"GER"?
Sing gers sing gers sing gers
Oops, he did it again! 😂
“He’s definitely studied speddies” 😂
So maybe he still can't tell us how to do it all, but he still gotta try his best and get ad views. The comparisons were still worth it.
Well I'm a natural born singer and I still watch your videos...i started singing very young and I still do to this day at 19 years old but I watch your videos cause I love to see how you break down explain the ways of the voice👌
Congested asf
Would I be considered a naturally born singer if I went from horrible to something pretty impressive in 4 months? I think that might qualify but I would like to know!!
Natural born singers are best.....it’s an authenticity...
Fuck me. TIL that I’m good at imitating :| thanks Adam
Shalom handsome 🔥
Why are you saying that diaframatic support is not god. It's acctually very important!
Leon Seferi
That’s because Adam has no f-ing idea what he is talking about!
I think holding your nose while singing nasally made the difference at least for me
Uhh...he sounds great.