The CVT Eurovision Mode Run Down
It’s that time of year when the whole world goes mad for Eurovision! This year as many of our colleagues are in Lisbon RIGHT NOW singing for Iceland, we thought we would join in the fun!
Want to know what your faviourite Eurovision Singers are doing? Here is our Complete Vocal Technique quick overview of how each Eurovision Finalist is singing and in which modes to help you easily identify what to work on if you want to sound like your favourite Eurovisionsingers.
You may want to sing along to each singer as they perform live, so here is our Eurovision Quicksheet to help you access the modes
01. Ukraine
MELOVIN – Under the Ladder
Vocal Modes:
- Reduced neutral
- Curbing (listen to the ‘uh’
- Overdrive
- Some edge
Vocal Effects:
- Air
- Vibrato
- Growl with slight rattle
Sound Colour:
- coming soon
Range:
- coming soon
02. Spain
Amaia y Alfred – Tu Cancion
Vocal Modes:
- Reduced neutral
- Overdrive
- Some edge
Vocal Effects:
- Air
- Vibrato
- Creak
Sound Colour:
- coming soon
Range:
- coming soon
03. Slovenia
Lee SIrk – Hvala, ne!
Woop Woop, Lets GO – classic Euro pop club classic from a pink haired popstrel!
Vocal Modes:
- Reduced Edge
- Full Edge
- Some Neutral
Vocal Effects:
- Vibrato
- Ornamentation
- Air
- Vocal Break
Sound Colour:
- coming soon
Range:
- coming soon
04. Lithuania
Leva Zasimauskiate – When We’re Old
Singing in their own language, LIthuania bring out a sweet heartfelt ballad
Vocal Modes:
- Neutral
- Neutral with Air
- Medium Edge
- Full Edge
- Medium Overdrive)
Vocal Effects:
- Growl
- Vibrato of varying speeds
- Vocal Breaks (lots of them!)
Sound Colour:
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Range:
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05. Austria
Cesiar Sampson – Nobody But You
Wow Rivaling some of the best soul singers out there and pulling out all of the stops – great range
Vocal Modes:
- Neutral
- Neutral with Air
- Medium Edge
- Full Edge
- Medium Overdrive)
Vocal Effects:
- Growl
- Vibrato of varying speeds
- Vocal Breaks (lots of them!)
Sound Colour:
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Range:
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06. Estonia
Elina Nechayeva – La Forza
Bringing in the Opera ‘Diva’ Esque style and wearing an amazing 60.000 Euro led enabled dress and perfect teeth
Vocal Modes:
- Neutral!!!
- A bit of medium Edge at the bottom
- Moving towards the whistle at the end at a high F6 but she doesn’t quite need to – not Queen of the Night high but still pretty HIGH
Vocal Effects:
- Vibrato!!
Sound Colour:
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Range:
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07. Norway
Alexander Rybak – That’s How You Write a Song
Vocal Modes:
- Neutral!!!
- A bit of medium Edge at the bottom
- Moving towards the whistle at the end at a high F6 but she doesn’t quite need to – not Queen of the Night high but still pretty HIGH
Vocal Effects:
- Vibrato of varying speeds
Sound Colour:
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Range:
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08. Portugal
Claudia Pascoal – O Jardim
Vocal Modes:
- coming soon
Vocal Effects:
- coming soon
Sound Colour:
xxx
Range:
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09. United Kingdom
SuRie – Storm
Raise a toast to Sir Terry Wogan – the voice of Eurovision past – bring on the storm and a fantastic stage storm from a protestor
Vocal Modes:
- Dark Coloured Neutral and air with a touch of Edge on the O
- Medium Edge on the beliive’ and getting towards full edge on the final high note but live not quite centreed!
Vocal Effects:
- Air
- Vibrato in parts
Sound Colour:
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Range:
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10. Serbia
Sanja Ilic & Balkanika – Nova Deca
Classic Balkan singing with plenty of edge and vocal breaks and a fair amount of ornamentation
Vocal Modes:
- Dark Coloured Medium Edge in the low part for the ladies
- Reduced Edge in the higher parts (hear the slight uh’ over the top?)
- Quieter Neutral with air on the bottle
Vocal Effects:
- Air
- Vocal Breaks
- Vibrato
- Ornmamention
Sound Colour:
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Range:
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11. Germany
Michael Schulte – You Let Me Walk Alone
Germans answer to Ed Sheeran sounds like more support work is needed as we have some uncontrolled constrictions but they work very nicely with the style.
Vocal Modes:
- Overdrive in the high Ohhhhhhhh
- Medium Edge on some of the verse and my ears hear some curved reduced and stuck in the old byway
Vocal Effects:
- Air
- Very slight distortion but this may be uncontrolled
- Vibrato
- Ornamentation
Sound Colour:
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Range:
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12. Albania
Eugent Bushpepa – Mall
Oooh a lovely folky stompy pop song – reminds me of Richard Marx.
Vocal Modes:
- Dark reduced Edge Ma Dreeeeem
- High loads of cool edge
- but look how easy it is – moving into screams and reduced edge territory , you can hear towards the end some actual neutral pure and some amazing twang on that high F
- Tiny part of knoedle
- Some great Overdrive
Vocal Effects:
- Great subtle distortion and rattle mix
- subtle Vocal Breaks
- Vibrato
- Ornmamention
- Loads of Twang and a lot of overtones that give it that great full sound
Sound Colour:
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Range:
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13. France
Madame Monsieur – Mercy
Dark and brooding
Vocal Modes:
- Dark Medium breathy edge on the lower part
- Medium Edge on the main chorus – very french Celine
- Neutral and a little bit of subtle curb towards the end
Vocal Effects:
- Loads of Air, well controlled
- Vibrato
Sound Colour:
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Range:
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14. Czech Republic
Mikolas Josef – Lie To Me
Perfect Pop, cross between scat man and prince of Bel Air
Vocal Modes:
- Lower medum Edge on the low rap – almost too low – speech like
- Neutral on the pre chorus as a timberlake, sticking to the medium edge
- Sounds like we need more support on the lower part
- Check out the shout – whats up Eurovision
Vocal Effects:
- Not many
Sound Colour:
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Range:
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15. Denmark
Rasmussen – Higher Ground
Vocal Modes:
- Edge all the way
- Needs support
- Lower medum Edge on the low rap – almost too low – speech like
- Neutral on the pre chorus as a timberlake, sticking to the medium edge
- Sounds like we need more support on the lower part
- Check out the shout – whats up Eurovision
Vocal Effects:
- Vocal Breaks overboard
- Close Harmony singing
- Neutral on the high
- Air
- Key Change
Sound Colour:
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Range:
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16. Australia
Jessica Maubey – We got love
Power Pop Song
Vocal Modes:
- Edge all the way
- Interchanged with overdrive
Vocal Effects:
- Shed load of vibrato
Sound Colour:
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Range:
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17. Finland
Saara Aalto – Monsters
Another Power Pop Song from Finland
Vocal Modes:
- Edge all the way
- Interchanged with overdrive
- Neutral for the high break
Vocal Effects:
- Vocal Breaks
- Shed load of vibrato
- Distortion on the I aint scared
Sound Colour:
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Range:
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18. Bulgaria
Bulgaria’s answer to Ran bone man boy band Sam Smith meets Rag n Bone Man meets Sia
Vocal Modes:
- Overdrive
- Lots of Neutral
- Neutral with Air
- Loads of Edge
Vocal Effects:
- Vocal Effects Used
- Shed load of vibrato
- Tonnes of Ornamentation
Sound Colour:
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Range:
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19. Moldova
Moldova appear to be doing some sort of strange Matt Bianco meets Bucks Fizz – funnily enough Graham Norton just said that if they win they would be the first band to win in a yellow dress since Jay Aston in bucks Fizz
Vocal Modes:
- Neutral mostly
- Man in Red has some overdrivey edge for us
Vocal Effects:
- Harmonies but pretty straight singing with vibrato
Sound Colour:
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Range:
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20. Sweden
Sweden’s answer to Justin Timberlake meets Bieber
Vocal Modes:
- Medium Edge and lots of neutral
- Reduced Edge – listen to the ‘uh’ over the top of the words (oh yeah curby curb curb)
- Very light sound colour
- Sounds like he needs a little more support
- Nasal Sound
Vocal Effects:
- Harmonies
- Air
Sound Colour:
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Range:
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21. Hungary
AWS
Metal!!! Well Smooth pop prog metal with an indie feel
Vocal Modes:
- Neutral
- Reduced Edge made meatier with Growl and Distortion
- Overdrive
Vocal Effects:
- Distortion
- Growl
- Rattle
- Combined Effects
- Death Grown/Grunt (awesome)
- Screaming
- Creak (High)
Sound Colour:
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Range:
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22. Israel
Clucking like a chicken with an urban Israeli beat
Vocal Modes:
- A fair bit of reduced even though there is a big sound
- Neutral
- Reduced Edge made meatier with Distortion
Vocal Effects:
- Growl
- Air
- Distortion on the end – subtle and gorgeous
- Vibrato
Sound Colour:
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Range:
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23. The Netherlands
Country Rock with a great Bon Jovi feel and a tiny touch of Steve Tyler
Vocal Modes:
- Loads of Twang
- Edge
- Harmonies in neutral
- Reduced Neutral with distortion
- Overdive in parts
Vocal Effects:
- Distortion
- Some crosses over with Rattle
- Growl
- Creaking
Sound Colour:
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Range:
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24. Ireland
Ryan O’Shaughnessy
Vocal Modes:
- Neutral
- Reduced Neutral (Chorus)
- Medium Edge
Vocal Effects:
- Air
- Creaking (Some unintentional)
Sound Colour:
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Range:
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25. Cyprus
Fuego
Big Euro Pop Song from the Cyprus answer to Beyonce – lets GO!!
Vocal Modes:
- Reduced Neutral
- Medium Edge
- Overdrive (FuEH Gohhh)
Vocal Effects:
- Air
- Creaking (Some unintentional)
- Vibrato
Sound Colour:
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Range:
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26. Italy
Gypsy drinking song with plenty of passion and effects and the word BAMBINO in it a LOT
Vocal Modes:
- Neutral
- Overdrive
- Edge
Vocal Effects:
- Creak
- Distortion
- Rattle
- Creaking
Sound Colour:
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Range:
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