VOCAL TALKTHROUGH: Beyoncé - Be Alive (Live at The Oscars 2022)

[@lynnw2953]

"beyoncé is still a standard" THAT PART.

[@Sponsorship4u2]

Indeed

[@urielsmith3248]

WILL FOREVR BE “THAT GIRL”

[@MalikRashod]

Beyoncé is basically Queen of Vocal Dynamics and if you disagree then go somewhere and hide ✌🏾🤣

[@ChristinaLove844]

"Belting is not the only way to climax vocally." Wow. Thanks for this.

[@adrea5295]

Her voice ages like wine.. so deep and powerful

[@sirisongbird]

Thank youuuu!! Beyonce IS a Legitimate vocalist. My having spent 42yrs in this business (started in music 80s with Alexander O'Neal, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, wrote for Babyface Edmonds, Angelina Jolie films, countless TV shows, Jingles, etc.) it irks me to see music fall so very far from grace. & Beyonce is still criminally underrated. Ppl actually claim "she can't sing"!!! Nuts. NUTS!!

[@danielletildamoro9706]

This is me. I feel this comment And coming from someone like you with experience. LOUDER PLS

[@sirisongbird]

@@danielletildamoro9706 thank you;! The youngest generation seems to get it too.

[@Siabeysment]

You are a legend

[@2014jguest]

Attempting to sing any Beyoncé song is vocal gymnastics. Her runs have always displayed complexity but after the birth of the twins her runs are insane!

[@SuburbanKween]

"Be Alive" is one of Bey's very best vocal performances. And it's a beautifully arranged song, too.

[@bluehalo8604]

Agreed. I was going down memory lane after listening to her new release and this song is a stand out in her catalog for SURE.

[@bperez8656]

Mature, sophisticated, wise Technical depth Virgo Queen shit

[@ovhramos]

I really love your mind. The way you break those vocals down is so amazing. Of course the credits goes to Beyoncé, but the way you make it easy to understand is all on you. Thank you for dadicating the time to deliver one of your greatest videos AGAIN! The way your videos about Beyoncé and Brandy are rich is because before analizing, you understand their instruments as a fan. thank you again

[@oneilgerald]

Thank you so much for this! It's funny because these videos are all me just genuinely geeking over artists and music I love! The nerd and teacher in me, just happens to also welcome others into that experience. Glad you took the time to enjoy some more Beyoncé with me now, and for all the time you've been subscribed!

[@Mr.Darrylking]

This Comment what I was thinking. Thank you 😊

[@michaelarcher7757]

I would be so intrigued to hear Beyoncé's new voice tackle "Satellites" and "Disappear". 🙌🏽

[@allupinyomine]

disaPEeEAaARrRrr-EeEEEaaAaRrrrr you disappeeeeeeeaaaarrrrr you disappear 💅

[@Das644]

Me toooo. Those are some of her most held back songs. Especially satellite(probably my fav song of hers) which is very dynamic

[@Bloooooooooooppp]

And that’s why your beautiful. It would eattt

[@danielletildamoro9706]

You spoke my mind. I think I'm gonna cry. Those are some of my fave ballad of hers

[@Siabeysment]

Ughhh I love love love disappear

[@mood4eva98]

WHEEEEWWWW I'm not a singer at all but Bey is one of the few artists that makes me notice all of these details on her vocals and for you to break it down allowed me to fully realize it more!!!!!!!

[@nickcarter3864]

I love that she has started dropping the key. It makes it so much easier and less offensive for me to sing along with her 😂.

[@girlgreenivy]

In truth.

[@Sponsorship4u2]

So accurate

[@SteadyNUnremitting]

She's such in good vocal health

[@sirisongbird]

16:01 ++ her signature YODEL runs, adlibs, et al riiiiight 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 YESSS TYVM😊

[@JustinDG100]

I love how you can technically articulate what im thinking and feeling when specifically listening to Beyoncé 's live performances. I really missed your Beyoncé reviews. ❤️🙏🙏

[@Sponsorship4u2]

Same! I miss these vocal breakdowns from a Master teacher regarding a Master vocalist!

[@SelBSinging]

It’s just she’s never lost her touch. Not ever.

[@bperez8656]

THE STANDARD! Periodt !

[@toya226]

Loved your analysis! Beyoncé is getting so much better as her voice matures. I’m here for all of it!

[@justinlocs]

I was WAITING for your breakdown O'Neil!!! Watching now!!!

[@jadoreni]

Beyoncé is basically a vocal marksmen. Very sharp precision.

[@bperez8656]

Virgo shit

[@manasse403]

Now THIS is the content I subscribed for

[@lomitchom1102]

Beyoncé would love you 😭🤣 you’d push her to try new stuff just cause you wanna hear her skills lmao

[@sirisongbird]

Very classy show! Thanks for the legitimate vocal breakdown "..this is a talk THRU talk WOO" 😊👏🏽👏🏽 It's integral that young artists/musicians/producers understand the dynamics of a GREAT VOCAL. 1st, Beyonce is a great singer and 2. a good singer is not "just icing" but vital instrumentation!!

[@Angela-nr2xf]

love love love the way you dissect the queen's vocals in this performance! it gets me excited knowing how the queen did it! haha

[@whip1720]

I would honestly love bey to sing a few of her songs from I am Sasha fierce it wouldn’t really require much from her something like that’s why your beautiful I wonder how it would sound. I think majority songs from that album wouldn’t require much from her it would be a interesting shift in the sounds of them

[@aweful]

Same I think that’s why you’re beautiful would suit her new voice so well

[@CajloTime]

Disappear or Save The Hero with her new tone? I'm not ready to be destroyed like that

[@ebonyd4ever]

I wonder if this next album will be along the lines of this performance? Like, this is so complex and rich and beautiful.

[@jaejevauhnmusic306]

Love this moment at 17:35 chills!!!! Amazing analysis as usual.

[@siphe]

I love your enthusiasm 🥹

[@michaelsliders3421]

Best vocalist 🫡🫡🫡

[@LamontSmithMusic]

This was dope, love the breakdown. Bey is out of this world vocally, the choices she makes, sheesh

[@sugarbabyesquire107]

I wanna hear smash into you with her new vocal

[@Luvanmusiq]

BLESS you, for covering this so thoroughly. I love your style of analysis!

[@chiaraluchetti5245]

loving this, never stop the Beyoncé video. both you and her combined are great teachers.

[@cvzdez]

Love the stecatto part " they want to see how far I" gOoU!

[@kristinrogers2586]

I’m so happy that you decided to discuss this performance! Thank you!

[@kevinjohnson4877]

But wait O’Neil! You were sanging on this video 🗣

[@Love_TheArtist]

Tell the folks...belting is not the end all, be all.

[@lauriechopin1949]

I thing you have the best analysis of KZbin and the Internet. I genuinely love your job from the beginning. Love from France.

[@ebonyd4ever]

I love the way you plot out runs and riffs!

[@Sunfables]

Your absolutely threw me Chile! Cause that's I feel everytime I hear the live version of this song. Lol love your channel and energy

[@sarakilburn2711]

ABSOLUTELY

[@American_Boy]

God, I love your videos

[@najisimmons8070]

Do you think changing the key is about comfort or the emotion she was trying to portray with respect to this specific arrangement? I think she would be comfortable either way but may feel it's simply boring to perform the song as it was recorded.

[@oneilgerald]

It could easily be about either! But it's really cool to see the qualities that we hear that all come with her choice to change the key! Thanks for watching!

[@najisimmons8070]

@@oneilgerald Thanks for the reply, your content is supreme. As a nation, I wish we taught math through the medium of music, it's hard to appreciate the sounds around us without the language to describe them.

[@Sponsorship4u2]

@@oneilgerald Both things can be true. It could be a vocal style choice to change the key it could also be the emotion she wishes to convey in the performance and the song. Beyoncé gives 110% EVERY SINGLE TIME with EVERY SINGLE PERFORMANCE she is a vocal giant without trying! I adore her technique and the little nuances she adds every time!

[@viberw3305]

Love this breakdown!!!!!!

[@jonathansjourney4977]

I absolutely love how you break down what she's doing because that's what I really want to know, especially the terminology. Once again a great video!!

[@SwaggaJonez1]

Beyoncé is my Greatest vocalist of all time !!

[@vokoleemusiko]

I’ve so missed you

[@tylerhackner9731]

Love this one!

[@cvzdez]

I really want her to use KZbin as outlet because I never would have seen this on the Oscar's as I don't watch that platform

[@patrickvance5750]

Beyoncé and Jade Nova are both so amazing as singers to me. I’m a Songwriter myself and music is healing. If you get a chance listen to Patrick Valentine Vance The Mother’s Day Song. If you like it text it to your mom on Mothers Day,Let it be the first text she gets from you on her day.

[@Oneofonejah]

as a beginner singer i take in all your knowledge and advice💯

[@NaturalGlistens]

This was an awesome critique

[@leo123722]

BEEN WAITING FOR THIS !!

[@Missusbadu]

I was hoping you’d cover this. I appreciate your videos so much!!

[@denvergojoe]

Love how you break it down. So impressed. Gracias.

[@shaun8079]

Loved your breakdown of this

[@kng001]

Waw I’m speechless

[@oliviamanning-richardson6677]

Um this is a masterclass..just subscribed 😎

[@mercykelly5267]

I was waiting for this

[@msnoel10]

I learn so much from watching your videos!

[@8artiscycle8]

I miss this 😭😭😭😭😭

[@rubenseugenio7423]

This is amazing!!!!

[@Jazzthevocalist]

When he said belting all the time i immediately thought of Jennifer Hudson yoooooooo

[@michaelsliders3421]

And miss Keke Wyatt

[@reginaldwhite2045]

O’NEIL PLEASE BREAK DOWN DESTINYS CHILD ‘HAPPY FACE’ LISTEN TO BEYONCÉ GO OFF……….

[@elizabethitota]

Freakum Dress would be awesome to hear🔥🔥

[@festusfamuyiwa5512]

Your Channel is amazing

[@paulomarcos1863]

perfect

[@Rick3795]

the "See" was a thrill....great analysis

[@SthrnPrettyCiara]

Definitely freakum dress, that's why your beautiful & I was here.

[@wizard101430]

Omg I’ve been waiting for this 🖤

[@beymic8502]

Please watch her sweet dreams acoustic version

[@MrMister1906]

@10:07 “There is something IN THE MIDDLE!” #kimburell

[@baleriondread5451]

"Alpha and omega run" 😂😂

[@rahelthorpe3410]

Every Point...On Point!!! Enjoyed this breakdown

[@danielletildamoro9706]

Why didn't the hive tell me about this reaction a bit sooner? I LOVE THIS ANALYSIS. UGH. LOVE IT. LEMEE KISS YOU AS THANKS 😘

[@cvzdez]

I need to be on these lives 😩 I signed up for the next good love perform

[@urielsmith3248]

Man all I can say is u the bomb and bey the bomb too u really had me definitely understanding a lot of shot I didn’t realize I would be able to and I have no problem if person is stopping constantly to teach not for other lil mess and u did that throughout the entire video that while also being taught yourself and I just completely loved this bro

[@hivemind3000]

Loved this!

[@dxxxdxxxd]

I'd love to see a video on Jade Novah's voice please. Her new song Lost in you as a possible suggestion??? I'm a new fan and I am really facinated with your videos and musical/vocal knowledge. Really great videos 😀😀

[@MalikRashod]

We need to hear Be With You in an adjusted key!

[@thomasmc2045]

This was awesome 👏🏽

[@su3978]

14:08 gets me every time

[@charlesdim476]

i enjoyed this!

[@SonyaLemord]

Thank you sir

[@zayl9268]

Yayyyy u seen my comment. I love it..

[@michaelsliders3421]

Lol bro

[@CKFIERCE1]

That added piano that you did! 😍

[@adriananderson28]

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[@Cledyston]

Awww!! I discovered your channel a little while ago and hadn’t seen any new videos since! I missed you! Thank you so much for this video. I love Beyoncé and I’m glad she’s back to this more ornate type of singing that she does so well. I must admit I didn’t like the (vocal) choices she made on Lemonade. I get it, though. Have you heard Mariah’s new version of The Roof with Brandy? How did you like it?

[@simonyanga9551]

Do you think she can still consistently belt her money note (F5)? But with a more heady quality?

[@Tied348]

She definitely can. I think she feels like she doesn't have to anymore because her voice is so much richer now, so she may not. I guess we'll see with her next tour

[@cavalrystyles8776]

Don't be too hasty, we don't even know if she can still do a full on E5 Today.

[@Tied348]

Cavalry Styles she’s hit many e5s and higher recently. What are you talking about

[@simonyanga9551]

@@cavalrystyles8776 for someone that has been touring for like 20 years and constantly belting high notes, it's normal that her voice got a little tired, but Beyoncé has a high head voice when she belts she mixes with a good balance (same proportion of head and chest) I think if she puts more head to her mixed voice, she will belt higher, it's just not her belting style

[@michaelsliders3421]

She’s Beyoncé of course 🫡

[@lpurvis]

Where can I get your cardigan?

[@D.Nav.1981]

Can somebody PLEASE show this videl to Wendy Willimas? Just wanna see if she still says Bey can't sing 🙄

[@cvzdez]

I wish you could do different artist foreign

[@kapulafred]

Was hoping you’d address how her voice has slowly started developing a rasp @17:07 when she sings yeah, I herd some similar rasp when she performed halo at Kobe’s funeral Looking at Whitney and Mariah’s singing, rasp can denote the beginning of vocal deterioration. And it could that be the reason she lowered the key more than just a half step?

[@dominiquemoore2367]

That's a stylistic choice she's adding that on purpose... That's how great she is Beyonce is one of those artist that knows her voice very well and well never force notes like that's not naturally there...

[@kapulafred]

@@dominiquemoore2367 you’re talking about something else entirely, but either way, rasp on purpose sounds like Christina Aguilera and natural rasp sounds like Pink! here Beyoncés voice is showing signs of a developing rasp like Mariah in 1997/1998. Mariah is star rated vocalist and a vocal legend but even her voice changed in 1997 and many say it’s never been the same again. Yes she had nodules etc but my main point here is Beyoncé is a perfectly technical singer but could it be that her voice has started deteriorating? What makes Beyoncé perfect is she’s changed her old songs to fit her new voice and her new music has entirely changed to suit the new voice which still sounds great and healthy and top notch after all these years. Definitely a queen for the longest vocal prime.

[@michaelsliders3421]

@@kapulafred Beyoncé always had a natural rasp😂have you not heard ego?

[@kapulafred]

@@michaelsliders3421 at which point in her range was that rasp is important here 😅 she clearly wasn’t in her chest voice now was she.

[@michaelsliders3421]

@@kapulafred sweetie you clearly an amateur

[@cvzdez]

I don't even watch the Oscar's

[@cvzdez]

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[@braijon7541]

Please please if you haven't tune into Summer Walker! She is growing into a vocalist to me, her choices and sound are so beautiful and free